Guillaume KLEIN Mon, 26 January 2026 at 4:44 am UTC·4 min read With the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics opening on February 6, AFP looks back at some of the golden stars of the ski slopes. Toni Sailer, the 'blitz from Kitz' The Austrian great from Kitzbuhel swept all before him during a brief career.Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement In the first Winter Games broadcast on television, Sailer, then aged 20, won all three men's events: the slalom, the giant slalom and the downhill. The competition doubled up as the world championships, with a bonus gold medal for the combined champion. Sailer came close to repeating his sweep at the 1958 worlds in his native Austria, but was...
