Alpine Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[heywoodu 13,540]

Very bad run from Innerhofer 

[heywoodu 13,540]

That was unsaveable. Where's Gianlu when you need him. 

[dcro 10,179]

Honestly, the downhill became quite boring for me after the changed the start list system. There used to be some build up to the best athletes, now it's just: Top 7 gone. Done.

[Майкл 542]

The leading trio will most likely remain intact and medal evetually.

[Gigs 68]

The Austrian commentator is so annoying. The Austrians were a few hundreds behind svindal at the 3rd split time and he's like "oh my god what, a time, svindal is getting nervous now" completely ignoring that at that point svindal was 4 tenths behind jansrud 

[OlympicsFan 781]

vor 3 Minuten schrieb dcro:

Honestly, the downhill became quite boring for me after the changed the start list system. There used to be some build up to the best athletes, now it's just: Top 7 gone. Done.

Completely agree! In addition to being the best, they also have the advantage of a (slightly) better course, it should be the other way round.

[OlympicsFan 781]

2 questions for the experts:

1) When was the last time that a german finished top 10 in the downhill at the olympics?

2) When was the last (and only) time that a german finished ahead of all austrians in the downhill?

[Gigs 68]

vor 5 Minuten schrieb dcro:

Honestly, the downhill became quite boring for me after the changed the start list system. There used to be some build up to the best athletes, now it's just: Top 7 gone. Done.

It always depends on the downhill. Kitzbühel was great in the last two years because there both guys like svindal and feuz who are superb on flat sections and long turns as well as guys like Innerhofer who are strong on the extremely technical sections can win. Therefore you had favorites spreaded over the first twenty starters. This slope only really suits one kind of skier who all happen to be the first skiers in the world cup starting list. I know Innerhofer had good training runs but it was always hard to believe he could challange someone like svindal when the Norwegian is in race mode

[Gigs 68]

Kosi  

that was extremely dangerous 

[EselTheDonkey 651]

vor 33 Minuten schrieb OlympicsFan:

2 questions for the experts:

1) When was the last time that a german finished top 10 in the downhill at the olympics?

2) When was the last (and only) time that a german finished ahead of all austrians in the downhill?

 At number 1.) Markus Wasmeier was 4th in Albertville 1992. I don't know the answer to number 2.