Ski/Snow Media-Related Snippets

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Snippets of strange media-related facts, oddities and curiosities from the ski world...

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Tony Sailer : Actor, Crooner, Skier

Having won 3 gold medals at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina, and followed it up with the same feat two years later at the World Championships in Bad Gastein, the Austrian legend's mother famously declared that "Toni has enough medals now. It's time he started making money". And make money he did. But not just through the channels normally associated with retired skiers such opening a hotel or starting a clothing business. He did those as well, but Toni was a bit different to the rest and also forged a successful career as a singer and actor. Classic Euro-films from the 60's such as Ski Fever, The Blue from the Sky, The Lucky Strike, 12 Girls and 1 Man, and er, Lost Treasure of the Incas may well have bypassed British film-goers but were popular around Europe and even in the Far East, all adding to the Sailer coffers and the Sailer legend.