Felix Neureuther is one of the most successful German ski racers in history. The 40-year-old won 13 individual World Cup victories and won silver in the slalom at the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria.
In the podcast “Mensch, Büchel”, which is available on Spotify, he talks about a formative experience in connection with the Olympics in Turin, Italy, when the future ski star was still 21 years old. He describes and reports an explosive detail: "I was taken with me even though I hadn't qualified. That's how he qualified for the Olympic squad – two placements in the top 15 or one in the top 8 – narrowly missed." The Upper Bavarian came second in 2012/13, 2013/14, and 2014/15 in the Slalom World Cup, and in 2013 and 2015 he also came fourth in the overall World Cup. He also won silver at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.