Unbelievable but true: Birgit Strolz, mother of the newly crowned combination Olympic champion Johannes, did not see her son’s gold run live. “I can’t watch Johannes’ races, especially not a descent,” she admits during the “Krone” visit in Warth. But his dad Hubert, who was moved to tears by his son’s success.
The alarm clock rang very early for the Strolz family on Thursday. The combined downhill, in which his son Hannes laid the foundation for his sensational Olympic victory with fourth place, started at 3:30 a.m. Papa Hubert, sister Anna-Maria and her partner Martin Bischof shared the excitement live in front of the television in “Haus Hubertus”. Mama Birgit not. “I can’t watch Hannes race, especially not the downhill,” she admits. “But since I couldn’t sleep anyway, I quickly realized that things were going very well.” Before the slalom, host Hubert went to the stables. “That’s where all the memories of my own Olympic victory came flooding back to me,” reveals the 1988 combined champion in Calgary. “But also my failure at the Albertville games. However, I had a very good feeling for Hannes from the moment I got up.” A feeling that did not deceive the 59-year-old and moved him to tears. And what did mom do during the junior’s final gold race? “I cleaned the sauna for the guests in the basement,” laughs Birgit. “At some point Anna-Maria came down screaming and crying and it was clear that everything went well.” But not only the family was happy with their newly crowned Olympic champion. From the morning there was a lot of activity. Father Johannes Kolasa, who looks after the parishes of Schoppernau, Schröcken and Warth, also paid his respects with a bottle of sparkling wine and flowers house is.
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