Born in Josesjo, Sweden and growing up in nearby Tarnaby I made the most of my surroundings and took to the slopes. By the age of five, I was already skiing. Eight years later I started training with the Swiss national. I qualified for the European race circuit at the age of 18. I became so dominant that the International Skiing Association altered the rules to include downhill in overall World Cup points. Nonetheless, I won three overall World Cups and 86 World Cup races during a 15-year career. I won titles in the slalom and giant slalom for seven consecutive years. My trophy case includes two gold medals and one bronze medal from the Olympics. I could have had more, but I was not allowed to participate in one Olympics because I was deemed ineligible due to professional endorsement contracts. That decision was later rescinded, and I raced in one final Olympics but did not earn a medal.
Who am I?
Ingemar Stenmark.
Wally
Just edged me out. 🙂
Nice job – we could have also called this one – you know you’re good when they change the rules because of you.
When’s the next one coming out?
Wally
such unbridled enthusiasm – I don’t know what to make of it. Are you just trying to catch up to Chas? 🙂
Well … yes, that’s part of it. Also, knowing that I will likely not be able to participate on a timely basis for the Oct 22 challenge, I’m trying to claim the “regular season best record trophy”. What do they call that in the NHL?
Plus as we all know, it’s nice to be logging in right when the question comes out … obviously Chas has some sort of electronic shock system that alerts him 🙂
Wally
Wally,
You are vying for the Presidents’ trophy – the most points in the regular season. 🙂
Actually Wally, I got really lucky for a while. My timing was just perfect. At one point, I had more points than the rest of the field combined. But, as we all know, luck eventually evens out. Since then, the scoring goes:
Wally – 4
Smitty – 3
Chas – 1
Rey – 1
Muels – 1
So, apparently you stole my electronic shock system? 😉
Either that or I’m the Mets of Who Am I?
Helmet sticker!!!!!!!!!
Do you keep track of those?
Mets or the Cubs!
Yes … the President’s Trophy!! It’s what I’m shootin’ for.
Are the Phillies the NL version of the White Sox? Wait for the 3 run HR … small ball be damned. Listening to the experts last night made me feel that way.
When you say ‘experts’ are you referring to McCarver?
No … McCarver would be a butthead. I think it was primarily the ESPN Bball tonight crew.
Butthead is putting it lightly (thank you for refraining from the opportunity to lead the Clipboard in the direction of being a truck stop 🙂 ). I hate the fact that McCarver makes money for what he does.
Agree on the overall opinion of McCarver- but what he said this past week was not anything over the top. What was over the top was the ESPN interview with him that tried to make his comments into their lead story on SportsCenter- he just wanted to make sure that the public knew that the NL games were now on FOX instead of TBS…