Look at the latest podium, is it just me or do all three of these ladies look remarkably similar? Anyway I found it interesting. Her season and career will be amazing to watch.
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Look at the latest podium, is it just me or do all three of these ladies look remarkably similar? Anyway I found it interesting. Her season and career will be amazing to watch.
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Interesting race tonight. It was cool to see the men and the women compete at the same time to compare the styles. Vlhova adopted the technique of the men in bashing the gates with both hands while the rest of the ladies skied around the gates. I've got to wonder if Shiffrin's team fucked up and didn't prepare her for this technique or if they tried it and realized that it just wasn't going to work for her due to her size. Vlhova is a giant next to Shiffrin so it definitely worked to her advantage. Also, Hirscher is a relatively small guy and he definitely struggled trying to adapt.
Anybody know the rationale behind using GS gates for the parallel slalom?
That sounds like a great race.... now I gotta figure out how to watch it.
“The world’s most dominant athlete at the moment is 23 years old, and getting better“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/the-worlds-most-dominant-athlete-at-the-moment-is-23-years-old-and-getting-better/2019/01/04/e03eab58-103c-11e9-831f-3aa2c2be4cbd_story.html?utm_term=.a6e78bc8b72f
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Zagreb = 37 slalom wins. Stenmark has the record w/ 40.
Stenmark.
Shes so fucking good. It's crazy. Even with that MASSIVE mistake she still crushed em all.
In case you folks were wondering how much the sport has progressed, here’s Stenmark from Lake Placid, (1980), w/ his winning GS and Slalom. He is faster than his skis and is skating and pushing constantly.
My view was right here:Quote:
Originally Posted by patxi
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Super cool venue to hold a race
I have seen the future and her name is Shiffrin!
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Originally Posted by Dee Hubbs
Sweet view! The stands don’t look total full. How much was the tickets for to watch from where you was standin?
Course prep is so much better tooQuote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
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Pure class ...Quote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
The stadium holds 70,000+ so even the 3500-4000 crowd looked sparse in that space. The weather was really foggy last year and it was really hard for the spectators to see the race, it kinda hurt the spectator numbers this year. It’s only their second year holding this race, I think it will develops to be a good race.Quote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
Basic tickets were 350 Norwegian Krone about $40. I work in the business and was invited to this event, so my view was “a little closer” than normal. But the $40 seats directly across from my photo would have been just as close.
I have seen the future and her name is Shiffrin
She’s the present.Quote:
Originally Posted by snojones
We’ll see her transition to speed over the next few years (?)
Hard to argue with all the Ws in the tech right now though
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Just watched the race, lots of fallers. 7 slalom wins in a row!
She has won two super gs in the last month or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by grskier
Looking back at the first few pages of this thread. This is interesting.
One big thing left. Then she gets to set the SL bar as high as she wants.Quote:
Originally Posted by nyskirat
To top Stenmark, at her age, will be remarkable. This is greatness like I've not seen in this sport (or many others).
Its hilarious in a way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bottleman
Anyone else wins two SGs in a month and they are dominant. That's the highlight.
For shiffrin, its just a lil icing.
How about the bad luck for Vlhova? But for Shiffrin she'd have 8 wins this season.
Kinda like Kristoffersen being under Hirscher all last winter...and this one, too, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by jono
Petra was wound up at Killington after the slalom. After about 10 minutes of signing autographs she stopped and shouted with fists clenched at her side "that is all, I have to be somewhere" and stomped off.Quote:
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