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Erik Schinegger – the man who became world champion (Swiss Press Text 2020, by Philipp Rindlisbacher) - Swiss Press Award

Tamedia-Zeitungen (Tages-Anzeiger, Bund, Berner Zeitung, Landbote, Zürcher Unterländer, Zürichsee-Zeitung, Langenthaler Tagblatt, Thuner Tagblatt, Berner Oberländer)

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2020

Philipp Rindlisbacher

She was celebrated, he was ostracized. And overnight, someone went from being a heroine to being embarrassed. Erika Schinegger became the 1966 World Downhill Ski Champion, but inside the young woman lay a boy with deformed genitals. Now a man, Schinegger tells his stirring life story, one filled with many harassment and sad twists and turns.

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