During the 1970s and early 1980s, Austrian downhill-skiing star Franz Klammer won 25 races on the World Cup circuit. His five World Cup downhill titles (1975 1978, 1983) are still more than any other skier in history (no one else even has four). If there's one moment, however, that defines Klammer's career, it is his spectacular, gold-medal-winning run at the 1976 Olympics in his own backyard at Innsbruck. Having won three World Cup races in 1976 (to that point), and eight out of a possible nine in 1975, Klammer was the odds-on favorite to win the gold medal. He was (and still is) immensely popular in his native Austria.