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Andreas Küttel: World Champion Reminisces About the Ski Jumping Family
Ticket to Fly: Ski Jumping & Nordic Combined Podcast
English - June 19, 2021 20:30 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBSports Society & Culture ski skiing skijumping ski jumping nordic combined nordic cross country olympics olympic paralympic Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The ski jumping family vividly recalls that day in 2009 when Swiss Andreas Küttel became a world champion in Liberec. Growing up in the small Swiss village of Einsiedln, Küttel became captivated by ski jumping which took from from rolling hills in the midwestern USA to towering scaffolds in Japan. Host Peter Graves talks with the personable Küttel about his career and the impact ski jumping had on his life.