Showing posts with label swedish sports icon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swedish sports icon. Show all posts
Vintage Ads: Carlsson på taket
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Vintage Cars: Carlsson på taket
Swedish rally driver Erik "Carlsson på taket" Carlsson in his SAAB.
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Sport: Ingemar Stenmark
If you are a sports fan you have probably heard of Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg - at least if you are about my age (40). Before Sampras and that Swiss guy many considered him to be the best player ever. He is also said to be the first "rockstar" of tennis.
So you know Bjorn, but do you know the guy in the picture above? If you are a Swede you know. If you are a sports fan from a country where alpine sports are big and if you are about my age you might know.
He is the second Swedish sports superstar of the same era (roughly the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s). He is Ingemar Stenmark - winner in 86 races in the Alpine Skiing World Cup, three times winner of the Overall World Cup title, 8 times winner of the Giant Slalom Cup, 8 times winner of the Slalom Cup, five times Olympic gold medalist... and he didn't do downhill, combined or Super-G. It is said that World Cup rules were changed and Super-G added as a discipline because of Stenmarks dominance. True? Maybe, maybe not.
Unlike Borg Ingemar wasn't the "rockstar" type of sportsman, he was - and I guess is - a shy man who didn't like the media attention. We all got used to his taciturn interviews on the telly. He didn't want to talk about the sport, he wanted to ski and ski well. The Swedes loved him even more for his ways and his northern characteristic dialect.
Many races took place on work/schooldays, with the first run in the morning and the second in the afternoons and in workplaces and schools everything came to a halt. TV sets were rolled into the classrooms and in tense expectation we all followed Ingemar's runs, cheering him on.
And then, in the schoolyards, the kids wore the specially knitted Stenmark-cap talking about Ingemar. We all knew the names of his fiercest competitors; the Mahre brothers, Thöni, Gros, Girardelli, Wenzel, Heidegger, Hemmi, Popangelov, Zurbriggen...
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This list says something: List of Alpine skiing World Cup race winners - Men
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Vintage beverage: Zingo
Zingo 70s style. Image was found here.
"Zingo is a Swedish soft drink. Zingo was introduced during the 1950s as Ingo-dricka ("Ingo drink"), named after the boxer Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson. After Ingo lost the world championship in heavy weight boxing the drink was renamed Zingo in 1962." - From Wikipedia
A few more images here!
UPDATE!!:
Found here via Gåsmannen!!
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Cuba Cola
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Dr dr Zeno loves Zingo.
Sport: Gunhild Larking
Kajsa Bergqvist and Emma Green are great high jumpers but I'd take Gunhild Larking any day. Gunhild Larking was Swedish champion 1952-1956 and came 4th in the women's high jump in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. She was probably more photographed than the winner. Who won anyway and who cares?
Solve the Gunhild jigsaw puzzle.
Thanks to Uffe Sundell who posted this photo in argument with those who think sport is all about appearance now and not before. Gunhild was surely an exception but anyway...
Sport/nostalgia: Ronnie Peterson
Se fler bilder på Ronnie här.
Läs om Ronnie på den officiella hemsidan. Där kan du bland annat hitta krönikor han skrev 1972 i Teknikens värld.
Läs om hans resultat här. Vad hände egentligen på Monzabanan?
Visste du att George Harrison gjorde låten Faster till Ronnies ära?
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