The man Known as ‘The Klammer Express’ crouched down and looked out over the icy course below him. Then he took off. Halfway down, Franz’s time was slower than Bernhard’s. Franz pushed himself to go faster, and he seemed to fly down the last part of the course. He could hear the crowd cheering, and that told him all he needed to know. He crossed the finishing line with a time of 1 minute, 45.73 seconds. He was 0.33 of a second faster than Bernhard, and fast enough to win the gold medal.