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...Austria's Annemarie Moser-Pröll working the women's downhill course with the no-nonsense smacking-and-caressing style of a baker kneading dough...
While Stenmark was being Stenmark, Europe's top women racers were putting on a spectacular show of their own on Whiteface Mountain. Austria's Annemarie Moser-Pröll had also come to Lake Placid with a point to prove. Like Stenmark, she held the record for World Cup career victories (61 for her, 46 for him) and, like Stenmark, she had never won an Olympic gold medal. At Sapporo in 1972, when she was 18, she had been forced to settle for two silvers, and she missed Innsbruck in 1976 because she was at home in Kleinarl...
...Moser-Pröll," says former U.S. Ski Team Director Hank Tauber, "is the toughest woman athlete I have ever met." She is a calm, concentrated woman with fiercely appraising ice-blue eyes who carries a solidly efficient 147 lbs. on a 5-ft. 7-in. frame. At the downtown Lake Placid house rented for the women's team by the Austrian Ski Federation, all talk about gold medals was banned. Moser-Pröll spent the evening before the women's downhill crocheting a red tablecloth-possibly something for the Café Annemarie that she runs with...
Skiing in sixth position, Moser-Pröll charged the course hard, risking everything in the tight, steep, slippery turns on the top of the run. She crouched into an aerodynamic tuck where no one else dared. It was a display of intimidating control, and it gave Moser-Pröll a gold medal as well as a slight case of frostbite...
...days later, Moser-Pröll took a spill on the steep upper portion of the shorter women's slalom in the first run and was eliminated. Hanni stayed upright and swept to her second gold by a commanding margin of nearly 1.5 sec. With two golds and a silver in the three alpine events, she matched the smashing performance of West Germany's Rosi Mittermaier in the 1976 Winter Games at Innsbruck...