LiechtensteinMountain Stretch from Triesen to Triesenberg. |
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«I championed the case of bringing the Tour de Suisse to Liechtenstein. The Swiss pointed out to me that Liechtenstein was a foreign country. However, it all worked out well in the end.» |
«As I was a sports journalist for ‹L'Auto› and knew a great deal about the business I helped the fledgling Liechtenstein Olympic Committee as much as I could.» |
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It verges on a miracle ... Eduard Oleg Alexandrovich von Falz-Fein witnesses the 1917 Russian Revolution in the Medved hotel in St. Petersburg, where he is staying with his parents. He has just turned five. Today Baron von Falz-Fein, who is almost one hundred years old, resides in his villa, Askania Nova, overlooking Vaduz. The Baron can look back on a very colourful and eventful life. One of his life's achievements is his service to Liechtenstein sports. Baron von Falz-Fein made sports history: in 1935 he was a cofounder of the Liechtenstein Olympic Committee and in 1936 he was a member of the first Liechtenstein Olympic team delegation that participated in the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The Baron vividly recalls, «We founded the Liechtenstein Olympic Committee right here in Vaduz in 1935. My uncle Woldemar paid for the Liechtenstein delegation to participate in the Winter Olympic Games in Garmisch. After that we continued our work. It verges on the miraculous that we went on to win medals in later years.» |
I think in French. Eduard von Falz-Fein spends his youth in Nice at the Côte d'Azur. He is passionate about cycling, even at a young age, and wins a race in Paris, where he is studying: it is the Paris championship. In 1934 he becomes «L'Auto's» (later «L'Equipe») correspondent in Berlin. He is just 24 years old and has his own office. As a much sought-after sports journalist he reports on various events from Berlin, including the 1936 Summer Olympics. Jacques Goddet, his boss at «L'Auto», is delighted with his work. Goddet, the then race organizer of the Tour de France, always spends his holidays at the home of Eduard von Falz-Fein in Liechtenstein once the Tour is over. The Baron used his international contacts to promote and develop sports in Liechtenstein. He remembers, «Back in those days I contacted the International Olympic Committee and they immediately accepted Liechtenstein.» Later he made it possible for the Tour de Suisse to come to Liechtenstein, despite the initial resistance. The Baron happily notes that since then a part of the Tour de Suisse has always passed through Liechtenstein. |