Crazy Canucks Canada's Legendary Ski Team

Name: Crazy Canucks Canada's Legendary Ski Team
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ISBN: 9781550174328

ISBN-10: 1550174320

ISBN-13: 9781550174328

Edition: 2008 (Unabridged)

Authors: Janet Love Morrison

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No one in Europe had ever seen anything like it: a handful of young Canadian men fearlessly hurling themselves down the iciest, steepest courses of the ski racing circuit. At first they were regarded as a bit of a joke as they travelled in a rusty old Volkswagen and showed little regard for the niceties of European alpine traditions. In the early 1970s no non-European had ever won a Men's World Cup downhill and nobody expected this to change. Then in 1975 Canadian Ken Read won at Val d'Isegrave;re and the Canadian boys began appearing on World Cup podiums with increasing regularity. It didn't take long for journalists to start calling them the "Kamikaze Canadians", but the name that stuck…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company, Limited
Publication date: 10/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 2.024
Language: English

Janet Love Morrison travelled extensively across Canada, Europe and South America to research this book. She interviewed over seventy people: competitors such as Franz Klammer, coaches, family members, journalists, trainers and many others. In 1997 she worked with Summerhill Productions on the CBC's Life and Times: These Crazy Canucks. Love Morrison lives in North Vancouver, BC.