VIENNA (AP) Only one skier in the 24-member Austrian squad for the upcoming world championships has won on the Word Cup circuit this season. A star coach left the women’s team mid-January. And “crisis” has become a common word on the ski-mad nation’s sport pages.
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Austrian skier Johannes Strolz won the Olympic gold medal on Thursday in the Alpine combined race, emulating his father, Hubert, who won gold in combined at the 1988 Calgary Olympics.