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The Austrian Olympic Committee has announced that the new flagship'' of Austria during the opening ceremony will be Mario Stecher. Initially, the flag had been entrusted to Benjamin Raich, who had given up, however, preferring to just get to Sochi on February 14.
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Curiously, the flag changes hands, but does not change the family as Stecher is married to Carina Raich, the younger sister of Benni.
The veteran of Eisenerz, born in 1977, will participate in the sixth edition of the Olympic Games and on his CV boasts 2 gold and 1 bronze in five circles, all obtained in Stafetta.
Never had a nordic combined standard-bearer for the'' Austria. It is also only the second time in which the'' honor is awarded to an athlete the Nordic disciplines in the past had only happened in Oslo in 1952 when he touched the jumper Sepp Bradl.
The choice of Stecher ago then dropped his candidacy Daniela Iraschko-Stolz who would surely have caused uproar as an out lesbian would-bearer in a country'' s index developed by the international community for homophobic laws.
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