Women’s comeback on the Streif in Kitzbühel

“Women shouldn’t presume to drive like a man.” This quote comes from Rosi Mittermaier, the mother of former slalom champion Felix Neureuther, who died in 2023 and who won gold in the downhill and slalom at the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck. At the time, Mittermaier spoke out against women’s racing on the Streif. “The women don’t need to drive any more brutally than they already do,” she is quoted in the Hahnenkamm Chronicle. The Welt she once said that she could “do without this hellish ride.” “I was never jealous of the men and their Kitzbühel, not at all.”