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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
It easily costs $20,000 to ski race as an older kid over here. No clue about Austria, but you're dealing with a pretty limited pool of kids based on parents income. Who knows if the genetically best ski athlete in Canada has even ever been skiing.
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I can't speak to the cost, but there is certainly more opportunity in Austria for high performance downhill skiing compared to Canada. There are 426 ski areas in Austria: a country comprising an area of 83,879 km2, and a population of 8.47 m people. Compare that to the 25 or so ski areas stretched between the Canadian Rockies and Coastal Mountains: an area of approx. 100,000 km2, and readily accessible by a population of 5–6 m people.