The Skiing Aigners Are A Nation Unto Themselves 사설토토
YANQING, China - The 2022 Winter Paralympics finished Sunday with China winning, by a wide margin, the most awards, 61, trailed by the unflinching Ukrainian group and Canada.
Yet, if the Aigner family, the four skiing kin from provincial Austria, were a country, they would have completed eighth at these Games. They caught more decorations all alone, 11 (six golds), than nations like Norway, Japan, Italy and Sweden.
Veronika and the twins Johannes and Barbara, alongside Elisabeth, Veronika's more seasoned sister and guide, are a stalwart ski country regardless of anyone else's opinion. They are the von Trapps of Austrian vision-debilitated skiing, and their introduction at the Paralympics made a ton of buzz.
The Aigners' different aides are Klara Sykora and Matteo Fleischmann, who are beau and sweetheart and privileged individuals from the Alpine Aigner tribe, which brought back home nine of Austria's 13 awards. (The aides' awards don't include in the authority standings, however Elisabeth Aigner said she would value her two as much as any other person in the family.)
"We are extremely lucky to encounter this in light of the fact that not every person can say they went to the Paralympics," Elisabeth Aigner said. "Be that as it may, to have the option to impart it to the entire family is mind boggling."
It was a family occasion, she expressed, however with a great deal of decorations.
Veronika Aigner, 19, won two gold awards with Elisabeth, 23, skiing down before her. At the point when they won the principal gold on Friday, they embraced toward the end goal for north of a moment.
"During that embrace, we were not talking a ton since we were crying so a lot," Veronika said. "We were so cheerful, thus glad for Babsi, as well."
Babsi is Barbara Aigner, 16, the twin of Johannes Aigner. They burst onto the para Alpine ski scene at the big showdowns in January in Lillehammer, Norway, similar to an abrupt tempest, winning gold awards in their first significant worldwide contest.
Whenever Johannes showed up in China, he was unsure he would even enter the vision-debilitated downhill race until he fared well in a training run. He entered and won gold, then, at that point, won one more gold in the goliath slalom, and five decorations on the whole.
These Paralympics are finished, however the vision-debilitated Alpine ski world should manage this family for quite a while.
"We have a great deal of years in front of us," Barbara said through Sykora, her aide. "The objective is to continue to proceed with what we began."
For most rivals in the time of Covid, heading out to the Paralympics implied going alone. Relatives were not permitted to join grown-up contenders, yet one parent or gatekeeper could go with every competitor under 18.
That empowered the two guardians, Petra and Christian Aigner, to make the outing, one for every one of their kid twins. The one in particular who couldn't travel was Irmgard, the oldest, who once filled in as Veronika's aide.
The three racers, Veronika, Barbara and Johannes, all have intrinsic waterfalls, a condition upon entering the world that causes darkness on the focal point of the eye, which can cause diminished vision and visual deficiency. The vision-hindered kin have all had something like two medical procedures to balance out the rot, yet they actually experience issues seeing and depend on advisers for get down the slants.
Petra Aigner was brought into the world with a similar condition and has had 30 medical procedures to hold it back from deteriorating. She can't see her youngsters race from the stands, so Christian Aigner gives her turn-by-turn refreshes.
"I'm happy I can't see it," Petra Aigner said through a mediator not long after her little girls completed first and second in the slalom. "I would be excessively anxious."
The Aigners live on a homestead in Gloggnitz, a village of approximately 6,000 individuals about an hour south of Vienna on the Austrian superhighway. The homestead has 30 chickens that produce eggs for the family and neighbors, four work ponies, a jackass and bunnies.