Blogging by the Euro coin
Hi all- Just a quick note from Kitzbuhel. I am on a computer in the lobby of our hotel since there is no wireless around that I could find. Wengen ended up being OK for me but not great. I ended up 25th, which is nothing to write home about, but I was battling an injured back from the second training run. Considering I didn’t ski for the 3 days before the DH and had trouble getting out of bed for the first two days following that training run, I was pretty happy just to make it, so scoring a few points was a nice bonus. I had a couple of mistakes but overall it felt like I hadn’t skied in a while. I was just a little off my game.
Anyway, after one day off I am here in Kitzbühel. We had our first training run today and it was full on. It was bumpy, fast, huge air and dark… in short it was the STREIF as advertised. I talked to one of the guys who helps organize the race now and he said that the head piste boss put in extra bumps along the way to make it extra difficult, as if it needed it. I think that he should have to race it and see how he likes the moguls in the landing zones. Anyway, it should be a fun one to watch and I hear that WCSN is showing it live so be sure to catch it! That is all from me for now… I am out of 20cent euro pieces.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Good luck Scott. Hope you tame the moguls or at least jump over them! Good job on your training run.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Scotty-
I saw the crash this morning and am hoping you are ok.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:14 am
God bless and keep you, Scotty Mac! Your crash was all the more shocking because you had such a beautiful run going. I don’t know if you regained consciousness while they were getting you ready to copter out. If you had, you would have felt the silent respect of that enormous crowd. It was awesome to see.
January 19th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Horrible crash! OMG!
I read that you are kept under artificial coma, I really hope everything turnes out ok for you!! Very scary!
January 19th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Hi Scott,
I don´t know if you remember me, we met 5 years ago at the Londoner in Kitzbühel and had a good time and when I missed the last train you brouhgt me home to Kirchberg. We never met again the last years but I´ve been incredibly pleased to see you becoming more and more successful. So it gave me a nasty shock when I saw your crash this morning. It was a torture to wait an hour until they said on TV that you´re not in a critical condition and I don´t want to know how your family felt in this time. Get well soon Scott, I think of you and hope you´re feeling better soon and you can continue your road to success-when you win the Straif downhill run next year we´ll celebrate at the Londoner!
Big Hug and all the best-Kerstin
January 19th, 2008 at 10:55 am
hi scott,
get well soon and be strong as you are!
xoxoxo, ana, graz, austria
January 19th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Oh my god Scott. That crash was unbelievably scary. Stay strong, you have tons of people around the world sending you healing thoughts right now. Best wishes for a quick recovery!
January 19th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
you have lots of fans in croatia,i hope everything will be ok!!!!!come back soon!!!!kiss and love from your fans in croatia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 19th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Sending you lots of love from Seattle, and hoping for a speedy recovery!
January 19th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Sending you good vibes for speedy recovery. Please be well soon. Best wishes!
January 19th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
What a shocking news, I really hope you’ll be well soon… and having great run going. Love from Belgrade
January 19th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
hope U R fine! have a quick recovery to be back on slope soon, or again for a beer in jimmys. greez
January 19th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Hei
Well that was really unpleasant shock today………. specially on the day when u should enjoyed on party celebrating birthday spiced up with great result!
But as Aksel said a few months ago: Shit happends!
So I just hope youll be better as soon as possible.!!!!
And since this year started so bad, dont forget that it cant be worst that was today, so just stay positive and we all keeped our fingers crossed you”ll be celebrating a victory on Streif next year and this day will be just a bad memory for you and all your fans from all around.
Best wishes for a quick recovery and healing thoughts from Slovenia
Tejci
January 20th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Scott, i just heard, much to my relief, that they woke you up from the coma and you´re fully conscious and even watched your fall on tv with your trainer. Hope you recovery goes on fast-you´ve been damned lucky, i saw that crash!
Love & hugs from Kirchberg-Kerstin
January 20th, 2008 at 12:52 am
hey,
just heard you are doing better, even walking around… I am so glad, was a huge shock yesterday seing you laying there and it seemed like forever until the medical team got there… Although I am one day late, Happy 30est birthday!!! All the best for you, and see you next year back in Austria on the podium, e?
xoxo, anny
January 20th, 2008 at 8:02 am
i heared you are awake!!!!thats awsome!!!glad you are fine!!!!i´m so happy right now,and i wish you fast recovery and as soon as you can write us something down!!!!kisses and hugs!!!!!!xxxo
January 20th, 2008 at 8:11 am
The good news of your ongoing recovery made my day! Prayers are powerful things and there were a million of them being said for you all around the world. You need to re-celebrate your birthday!
P.S. Right after you went down the livetiming put up a DNF. Then they thought better of it and put up your time. Damn straight! You finished that race!
January 20th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Bonjour Scott !
Hi ! I’m from Geneva in Switzerland. I watch ski on TV since the early 70’s. Well, yesterday, I was in a restaurant with a huge Plasma TV showing the race to their customers. Like the 70′000 fans in Kitz, when you crashed and when the entire planet saw your impressive spasms, before the TV director cut off the camera in respect, we were terrified. Now, after a day of big concern, as we learn that you’re alert, I can tell you, frankly, I thought then (and all the people in the restaurant, and probably in the finish zone in Kitzbuhel) that I just saw a fatal accident. As a matter of fact, my girlfriend and I just had to leave the place without eating… and quite a few others did the same. The afternoon was a bit silent, as we couldn’t erase the images from our head. So, to hear the good news this Sunday afternoon is fantastic, I’m so happy for you and your friends, c’est vraiment une chouette nouvelle ! I hope you won’t get a lot of headaches in the next weeks, but even so, when you’ll watch the footage yourself, you’ll see what I mean
You gain quite a new followers in this adventure (I just registered here to write you) and I’ll watch your blog with interest from now on ! Thanks for being fit enough to survive this, and therefore to allow all ski fans a nice ending to our week-end !! Salut, Karl Reich & Laurence Berthod.
January 20th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Hi Scott,
Saw your crash on TV yesterday- pretty spectacular finish - glad to hear you are up and around. Don’t understand why they added extra bumps - the course was already challenging enough back when Alan was there. We wish you all the best for a rapid recovery - and a happy birthday!
Andu and Taimi
January 20th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Hi Scott,
I’m realy happy with your fast recovery. Yesterday when I saw your speed 142 km/h I thougt “What speed, my car can’t reach that speed” and in the next moment when I saw your jump and then how you lose control in the air and then the crash I was a bit terrified and I started to scream “Where are the f…ing medics”.That was scary man. I’m glad that you are ok now. I hope you’ll comeback soon.
P.S. Happy birthday
January 20th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
so my sister called me late the other night freaking out and i’m hoping all is okay with your head. i’m really hoping you’re head is strong and you can be confident enough to rally the steeps again because you are skiing so well and i’m always watching for you and the other boyz in the standings. wish we got world cup weekly over here or something. anyway, thinking about you and hope you make a strong comeback. cheers bro, see you again on the slopes!!!!!!
kristian
January 21st, 2008 at 4:35 am
hey scott. I don’t know if you remember me. we met in innsbruck at a club some days before christmas. I heared about your horrible crash on friday and wanted to leave you a note. I really hope you’re doing better. Get well soon and all the best from vienna,
natalie
January 21st, 2008 at 6:30 am
Scott,
Great to hear you are doing so well, especially after having to be prepared for the worst regarding your condition. To be alive and well when so many around the world feared you might be dead. We have never met, but as one who has a great appreciation for the courage of downhill racers, I wish you a speedy recovery and a quick return to racing. What a birthday!
Bruce
Canada
January 21st, 2008 at 7:04 am
Sorry for my english, my name is Julie (Jill) and I live in Nice, France. Bonjour Scott ! You have quite a way to celebrate your birthday… wow, it will be hard to top that
Like some wrote above, yep, we too (brother, friends) watched the race live and thought you were …. let’s say… well, an ex-racer (copyright the Monty Python’s) and we turned off the TV. It was among the worst image I ever saw on screen and it was impossible to spend the day without thinking of you. Late in the evening, some good news began to arrive. That’s a real miracle. As Karl said earlier here, not only the crash, but more the convulsions you had, lying without the helmet, were dramatic. Hey, btw it’s Monday here in France and they are currently still playing the full crash on CNN… And of course, now you’re definitely a YouTube.com star !! Anyway, you can’t imagine how happy I am to write this little silly note to you, though reading my english is probably not the best way to calm any headache. Take your time to come back, buy yourself a better helmet, and enjoy the first days of the rest of your life ! Because Saturday was REALLY a birthday, if you want my 2 cents (well, centimes, here in Europe, as you noticed !) A big kiss from me and my friends, excluding my brother who will probably just shake your hand. Bon anniversaire Scott ! Jill.
January 21st, 2008 at 8:26 am
saw the crash
hope that you’re doing well and we’re all praying for you! We know you’re strong and will have a speedy recovery so you can get back out on that mountain! good luck and god bless
January 21st, 2008 at 8:57 am
Hey scott! I send you best wishes for getting well soon! I saw the crash and I was really shocked…, but it was great to hear your voice on sunday! I hope you’ll have a fast recovery and that you’ll come back soon.
Best Wishes Patricia
January 21st, 2008 at 11:08 am
Hi Scott,
My family and I watched Hahnenkamm Downhill looking forward to a fascinating race and then we saw your horrible crash on TV. As we are all non paid ambulance man and woman at the Red Cross we feared the most dreadful.
On Sunday morning we were glad to hear that you woke up from the coma. And today I read that first of all you wanted to know your race time when you woke up.
Those are wonderful news. I’d like to wish you a belated happy birthday and hope you will be back soon. Get well soon!!!!
Best wishes Babs and family
January 21st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Hi Scott,
This crash has a least been good for the fan base, just managed very technical job of registering, to leave nice get well message,and promise to be proper groupie like fan in future. Love watching the skiing and was shiving off study (medical finals this week) to watch downhill on sunday morning. Just tucking into cornflakes when I saw your awful crash, watched the rest of ski sunday which is generally quite boring, and not a mention of how you were. Tried on line and realised as usual in Ireland we never get to watch anything live and it had happened day before on your 30th birthday no less, now that really was unlikely. Really glad your going to be ok, I am sure anyone who saw it said a little prayer for you.
Wishing you the speediest of recoveries rachael
January 21st, 2008 at 5:20 pm
happy to hear your doing so well…happy birthday…if ever you get to seattle let us know and i’ll stand you a round at the lock ‘n keel (bar in ballard)
best to you…rick
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 am
Hi Scott,
great to hear you are feeling better and better. I was at the downhill race in Kitz and saw your crash. It was horrible to see. I wish you a speedy recovery and hope you are soon ready to get back to racing.
All the best, verena
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:39 am
Hi Scott,
I work here in Zurich, and on Monday at work, the one and only subject was your crash. It seems that we were all thinking the same when we saw it, and it wasn’t a nice thought. The human body is quite incredible, you were like a dismenteled puppet, how you were able to get out of this, not only alive but in one piece, is quite amazing. Can’t tell you how relieved we were on Sunday, and from me and all my friends in our staff, we wish you all the best for you and a great birthday, hope the cake will still be good in a few days !!
Dominik, Marieke, Laurent, Franz 1 & Franz 2, Elisabeth.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Hi Scott,
Great to hear you’re recovering “better than expected” (from Wikipedia). It was quite shocking to watch. I wonder if they’re getting any heat from the extra bumps they added to the Streif.
Hope to watch you skiing again next year.
Cheers!
Joe
May 14th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Rare United States Coins…
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you….