Kitzbuhel

Rahlves has won two downhills, including the biggest single race of the season — the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbuhel, Austria, on Saturday.

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He last won a title Aug. 1, 1999, in Kitzbuhel, Austria

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The tough-talkin’ Gladiator star has been forced to confirm that he still walks among the living after reports hit the web Thursday claiming Crowe was killed while filming a movie in Kitzbuhel, Austria.

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That means running the big, treacherous downhills such as Kitzbuhel (Austria) and Wengen (Switzerland).

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And that search eventually took Budd to the doorstep of Leni Riefenstahl, the famous actress, director and Nazi propagandist, who in 1945 was living in Kitzbuhel, Austria.

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In downhill, skiers race down essentially the same course year after year, whether at Colorado's Beaver Creek or Vail resorts, or Europe's legendary downhill runs, such as Wengen, Switzerland, or Kitzbuhel, Austria.

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In downhill, skiers race down essentially the same course year after year, whether at Colorado's Beaver Creek or Vail resorts, or Europe's legendary downhill runs, such as Wengen, Switzerland, or Kitzbuhel, Austria.

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Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images SHOVELING SNOW: Austrian troops prepared the famous men's downhill course, "Hahnenkamm," before official practice during the FIS World Cup in Kitzbuhel, Austria, Wednesday.

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Six weeks later, at Kitzbuhel, Austria, in the famed Hahnenkamm race, he set a course record before finishing second to Switzerland's Franz Heinzer.

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My second place at Kitzbuhel ... that was the race of my life, the best I've ever skied.

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