Greatest sports comebacks

World class again, even with shotgun pellets in the back

Back to happiness - an Austrian discipline! Hermann Maier did it, Niki Lauda and Thomas Muster before him - now skiing ace Marcel Hirscher is making his comeback. The "Krone" also shows international caliber skiers who have successfully returned - one of them with shotgun pellets in his back!  

Exceptions prove the rules! "They never come back" is the saying at the top of world sport when champions leave the stage. Actually. Because exceptional athletes always make it back to the top, and Austrians in particular seem to have the comeback gene. An overview: