A very exciting skiing race happened during the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Austrain skiing champion Franz Klammer was the favorite to win the downhill skiing gold medal, and more than 60,000 fans had come to cheer for him. But when they heard that Franz would be the last skier on the course, they were worried. After all the other competitors had skied down the hill, the course would be dangerously icy.