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Originally Posted by Danno

hypothetically speaking, how does one go about getting one of those contracts? asking for a friend. ;)

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start by going on facebook and joining all the olympic organizing committee pages and stalking the "bigshots"

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Originally Posted by Canada1

The olympics are the biggest con ever. I have multiple consultants living in million dollar homes around me from Olympic contracts, while I know athletes living out of their trucks trying to make the team.
That said shriffin is the funnest watch out there right now. She has mastered the ability to find acceleration out of the ski pop like no one I’ve ever seen. Like ligity was for GS pre crash, she is for slalom. She is the model others will attempt to emulate.

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Welcome to the world of amateur sports. NCAA is just as bad. A great system to steal from the athletes.

At least they’re getting the opportunity for an education out of it. A hell of alot of the kids aspiring to be olympians are walking away broken and broke.

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Originally Posted by Danno

hypothetically speaking, how does one go about getting one of those contracts? asking for a friend. ;)

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PM me...

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I've definitely seen more female coaches in VT than any other state but I think with the current generation (i.e. millennials) slowly reaching the age where skiing becomes expensive, coaching is a good way to offset the costs. I know of at least 3 girls who have gone back to coach, even if it's at the younger age groups.

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Never occurred to me that VT would have disproportionately more female coaches. I am trying to remember female coaches from other states I have seen and can only think of a few.

Another interesting thing is that, at least in Southern VT, for the past four or five years the number of female athletes (through U16, anyway) has been larger than for the boys. Optimistically that could translate into more female coaches down the road.

I think it would be a real benefit to the sport if we could get at least a decent percentage of female coaches. Ideally one day 50/50, but we're so far from that right now that it seems like an impossible goal at any point in the foreseeable future.

Tiger shaw???
What's his involvement w us ski team?? Dude used to be my coach racing 3s n 4s at bromley in early 80s.

Pres/CEO of USSA.

Big B still pretty much the same, I'm sure...

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Originally Posted by jackstraw

What I hate about the olympics is that people who have no clue about skiing make the olympics the be-all end-all of the athlete. I’ve had arguments with people about Bode when he didn’t do great in the olympics and tried to explain the “World Cup!” to them...ahh...but it was a futile argument on my part. I’m preaching to the choir here, but so much come into play with ski racing that is not in their control. And obviously speed events can vary tremendously from one venue to the next.

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Any one-game/race championship is a crapshoot- superbowl, Indy 500, Golf/Tennis majors, etc. Thing is, the great ones will almost always win at least one, and will rightfully not be considered one of the greatest if they do not. to be great, you cannot pick and choose when you are great, and you especially cannot shrink when the lights are the brightest. Great ones rise to the occasion despite odds stacked against them.

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Any one-game/race championship is a crapshoot- superbowl, Indy 500, Golf/Tennis majors, etc. Thing is, the great ones will almost always win at least one, and will rightfully not be considered one of the greatest if they do not. to be great, you cannot pick and choose when you are great, and you especially cannot shrink when the lights are the brightest. Great ones rise to the occasion despite odds stacked against them.

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The only thing that compares in your example is Golf. The others do not.

And I would add surfing to that as well.

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The only thing that compares in your example is Golf. The others do not.

And I would add surfing to that as well.

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the superbowl doesnt? Indy 500 doesnt? Weather, off days, injuries, mechanicals, etc all affect those teams/drivers/individuals. It would be easy to correlate any issue involved with ski racing to most sports. fact of the matter is that the great ones will outperform the competition when it counts the most.

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but I can't think of any female head coaches in VT.

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I think Sally Night/Utter up at GMVS is a head coach for the younger women.

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the superbowl doesnt? Indy 500 doesnt? Weather, off days, injuries, mechanicals, etc all affect those teams/drivers/individuals. It would be easy to correlate any issue involved with ski racing to most sports. fact of the matter is that the great ones will outperform the competition when it counts the most.

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Jim Kelly is not great because his "team" did not win the Superbowl? Defense counts. Weather is the same for both teams.

Car racing...again they're all in the same conditions the entire race... everyone. Baja style can be slightly different I suppose. I don't know the speads on the starts.

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Jim Kelly is not great because his "team" did not win the Superbowl? Defense counts. Weather is the same for both teams.

Car racing...again they're all in the same conditions the entire race... everyone. Baja style can be slightly different I suppose. I don't know the speads on the starts.

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Kelly and marino have huge knocks on their careers because they couldnt win the big one. Crowd noise, isnt the same for both teams. Weather plays to advantage or disadvantage of a team's and individuals tendencies. If rain starts while a team is running their 2 minute drill to win the game, it sure as hell makes it harder for that QB... etc, etc, etc.

The bottom line is that the truly great ones in their sport are great enough for long enough to outlast any truly flukish factors that make it impossible to win the big one.

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Originally Posted by Canada1

The olympics are the biggest con ever. I have multiple consultants living in million dollar homes around me from Olympic contracts, while I know athletes living out of their trucks trying to make the team.
That said shriffin is the funnest watch out there right now. She has mastered the ability to find acceleration out of the ski pop like no one I’ve ever seen. Like ligity was for GS pre crash, she is for slalom. She is the model others will attempt to emulate.

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Do you have to be Canadian to get in on this racket?

Don't be fooled, olympics is professional sports now.

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I loled watching her open the champagne

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Bode might be right about her. [emoji3]


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Might?:ski:

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Hirscher won too. WC win 51 I believe

She only win by three tenths of a second, she's slipping.

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Originally Posted by Danno

She only win by three tenths of a second, she's slipping.

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maybe she hit the pull-up bar too hard.

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She only win by three tenths of a second, she's slipping.

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Or maybe if she wasn’t under the weather and didn’t vomit several times before the race.

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She only win by three tenths of a second, she's slipping.

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Must not be doing enough dolphin turn drills.

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Originally Posted by plugboots

Or maybe if she wasn’t under the weather and didn’t vomit several times before the race.

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Easily the weakest part of her game. Isn't there a ski forum for doctors someplace where that could be properly addressed? The internet needs to step up and defend our medal count.

Watching her being followed by the camera guy was painful. She is such a sweetie. Giving her cape to the handicapped girl. Class act. You know there's a lot more to being on the World Cup than just skiing fast and winning. She does it well

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Being Canadian, I find it hard to root for other nation's athletes (child-like, I know) but it's easy to cheer for a winner like this young lady. Class act, and a great role model for all. It'd be cool to see her smoke the field in Korea.

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And another one. By 1.62 I believe

Won every WC race in 2018 so far.

She’s outta control. 2nd woman in history to win the first 4 starts in a year.

Her next big challenge is surviving the NBC pump-and-dump olympic onslaught. They will beat her for ratings like a rented mule.

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And another one. By 1.62 I believe

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I guess she improved her pull up form.

Even her bindings are RED.

Gep should send her some mag stickers, I will buy.

True dominance from Shriffin and Hirscher.

Hirscher wins again as well, and again by a slim margin. Watching Kristofferson react to Hirscher constantly beating him by the slimmest of margins is telling- 3 in a row by 0.11, 0.17, and 0.16. The first one in Zagreb he was angry and cussing in the leaders chair, both races in Adelboden he through up his hands like WTF do I have to do to beat this guy? Believe Kristofferson has already set a record for most 2nd place finishes in a year.

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Originally Posted by huckbucket

Her next big challenge is surviving the NBC pump-and-dump olympic onslaught. They will beat her for ratings like a rented mule.

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She will not have a problem. Her parents/agents have a plan for handling this and will tell NBC where to get off, if necessary. NBC will get what they need, Shiffy will get what she needs (probably including two gold medals), and all will continue to be well.

Don't believe in jinxes--I think she ends up w/90+ WC wins, crazy as that might sound.

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Hirscher won too. WC win 51 I believe

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Dropping her right arm. :nonono2:

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his boot canting looked a bit off.

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True dominance from Shriffin and Hirscher.

Hirscher wins again as well, and again by a slim margin. Watching Kristofferson react to Hirscher constantly beating him by the slimmest of margins is telling- 3 in a row by 0.11, 0.17, and 0.16. The first one in Zagreb he was angry and cussing in the leaders chair, both races in Adelboden he through up his hands like WTF do I have to do to beat this guy? Believe Kristofferson has already set a record for most 2nd place finishes in a year.

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Seriously. Kristofferson is having a fantastic year, but Hirscher is just making it look ordinary.

You gotta feel for Vhlova, Hansdottar, Holdener, etc. like you do for Kristofferson.

Fantastic skiers, every one of them but just going up against juggernaughts.

I could see a competition between Hirscher and Shiffrin for most wins all time. I know he's older, but he's also a more consistent GS skier.

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Originally Posted by Mofro261

True dominance from Shriffin and Hirscher.

Hirscher wins again as well, and again by a slim margin. Watching Kristofferson react to Hirscher constantly beating him by the slimmest of margins is telling- 3 in a row by 0.11, 0.17, and 0.16. The first one in Zagreb he was angry and cussing in the leaders chair, both races in Adelboden he through up his hands like WTF do I have to do to beat this guy? Believe Kristofferson has already set a record for most 2nd place finishes in a year.

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Poor Henrik. He looks more and more desheartened. Hirscher is a monster. But the gap, if constant, is slim. Henrik may have hope to beat Marcel, to find those tenths of second.
But to run against Mikaela ? It must be devastating. How can you hope to close the gap when the second best is constantly 2 seconds behind ? She's absolutly crushing her opponents.