Hotel Lobby
18 March 2002 | ||
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| The hotel lobby of the Westin Awaji has a set of world clocks that change color according to the daytime in the other cities. For some reason yellow means night and blue means daytime.... The English worldcup team will stay at this hotel. Hotel staff wore England buttons, but at the conference the chair did the sensible thing and he apologized in advance for the behaviour of his countrymen.... | ||
World Cup 2002!
23 March 2002 | ||
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| Flags and a huge football outside of City Hall in Seoul, just next to our Hotel.... | ||
City Hall of Seoul
23 March 2002 | ||
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| Seoul's City Hall with a giant lit up football to celebrate the upcoming worldcup.... | ||
Worldcup Stadium
24 March 2002 | ||
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| Korea's main worldcup stadium at the outskirts of Seoul. Outside of it there were some rehousing developments to move the people living in poor conditions next to the stadium into other areas. Very compact stadium, seats 65000, I am sure the atmosphere here will be fantastic.... About 10 miles from the border.... | ||
England vs. Brazil
20 June 2002 | ||
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| At the Fox and Hound with Janice, Joe and Cassius. | ||
England Scores!!!
20 June 2002 | ||
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| And the crowd goes wild.... | ||
Then... Brazil draws and then... even more goals for Brazil...
21 June 2002 | ||
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| Long faces at the Fox and Hound.... | ||
Waiting until it is 4:30am
30 June 2002 | ||
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| So we can see the World Cup finale... Brazil vs Germany..... | ||
Just a few more hours
30 June 2002 | ||
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| In Holger's apartment.... the cute girl on the left is some girl that Holger asked in the bar to come along to watch the world cup. She came with her Dudley Moore style wasted English boyfriend, who repeated the same story about having met Klaus Kinski two-hundred times and had some interesting thoughts on how to solve the Palestine conflict by shipping just everyone to Arizona and declaring the land there holy. | ||
World's most famous Skiing Race
21 January 2006 | ||
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| The Streif! | ||
Austrian Fans
21 January 2006 | ||
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| ...many American and Canadian flags all around, too.... | ||
Final Area
21 January 2006 | ||
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| Speeds of up to 140km/h.... | ||
Amazing Event
21 January 2006 | ||
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| The Streif is the most famous downhill competition. Very difficult and real big fun to watch.... | ||
Herminator entering the final areas
21 January 2006 | ||
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| ...and the flags are flying. He dissapointed though, but the last runner of the day, Michael Walchhofer recaptured the honr.... | ||
Hausbergkante
21 January 2006 | ||
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| They shoot over the Hausbergkante with speeds up to 140km/h and jump 40 metres... | ||
Balloons
21 January 2006 | ||
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German Celebrators
21 January 2006 | ||
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| Funnily and sadly, there was not a single German Skier on the lineup... | ||
Germany vs Costa Rica
9 June 2006 | ||
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| At the start of the worldcup... Low expectations at the Menterschwaige Beergarden... | ||
Dani and Nora
9 June 2006 | ||
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| German flag colors.... | ||
And Larrsen misses....
24 June 2006 | ||
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| Penalty at the Germany Sweden match... One German supporter and lots of Swedes... | ||
German worldcup fans everywhere?
27 June 2006 | ||
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| In front of a famous sculpture... | ||
Germany wins against Argentina
30 June 2006 | ||
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| And the city goes wild and people throw Mathias including his two mobile phones into the fountain.... | ||
Brazil Fans
1 July 2006 | ||
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German Fans
1 July 2006 | ||
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Germany Loses against Italy
5 July 2006 | ||
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| Makes PW sad... | ||
Germany wins against Portugal
9 July 2006 | ||
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| And yet more partying ensued... | ||
Back-Red-Gold
9 July 2006 | ||
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| Everywhere! | ||
Go on your knees
9 July 2006 | ||
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| And then a countdown would start... ending up with everyone shouting and jumping... | ||
They partied, too!
9 July 2006 | ||
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| Portugese Fans... | ||
Flags
9 July 2006 | ||
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Flags at the Siegestor
9 July 2006 | ||
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| More flags and singing and jumping... | ||
Strange Combo
9 July 2006 | ||
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| But I liked it... | ||
Ski Worldcup
19 January 2008 | ||
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| Another year at the Streif, this time with Bernhard, Carmen, Karin and PW. | ||
Scott Macartney Crash
19 January 2008 | ||
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| Very bad crash by this American Skier... We were a few meters from him, but couldn't see him lying there. as we were just down a small hill. But here you can see the crowd looking down at him. His helmet had broken at impact. | ||
Helicopter arrives
19 January 2008 | ||
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| Carmen was just repeating over and over: 'He is dead! He is dead! I am sure!' | ||
Medics take Scott away
19 January 2008 | ||
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| To the hospital in Innsbruck, where he regained consciousness a few days later. | ||
Hermann Maier comes!
19 January 2008 | ||
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| The Herminator drives the crowd wild! | ||
140kmh
19 January 2008 | ||
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| Taken with 1/2000s... | ||
5 Layers of nets...
19 January 2008 | ||
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| ...the arrangement that is saving lives these days... Just go and youtube Hermann Maier's Nagano crash. | ||
Rolex and Teeth-clenching
19 January 2008 | ||
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Looks nice...
19 January 2008 | ||
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| ...but is at 140km/h... | ||
Group Photo
19 January 2008 | ||
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| And then the Apres Ski Music started... | ||
The Wiesnbedienungen start going mad
19 January 2008 | ||
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| ...since one of the Wiesn' songs was starting to play... | ||
Ein Steeeeeern.....
19 January 2008 | ||
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| ....derrr Deinen Namen trääääägt... | ||
Come on! Stop dancing!
19 January 2008 | ||
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| More Glühwein... | ||
Karin goes into Politics...
19 January 2008 | ||
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At night after some Glühwein, we headed back to the official ceremony...
19 January 2008 | ||
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Boozed up crowd...
19 January 2008 | ||
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| Kitzbühel gets 50000 visitors for the Streif | ||
And the fireworks...
19 January 2008 | ||
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| ...vanish in the clouds... | ||
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