Will Vlhova return for another season?
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ExpandExactly what advantage does Switzerland have in their equipment? Would you mind explaining a little, please?
They have their own technology centers where they work on this. Commentators on Italian TV talk about it very often during broadcasts. Ok, they have a lot of money but FIS has to think whether anyone outside Switzerland will be interested in the fact that 4-5 Swiss players are constantly in first place, especially in the long term perspective. The same thing happened with Austria once and it wasn't good either for all od this discipline.
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Switzerland dominates similarly to Austria in the late 90s. It's a pity that instead of focusing on some fluore, FIS can't go towards reducing the dominance of these giants. Without such an advantage in equipment, Switzerland wouldn't be so strong and this, I think can be limited.
Edited by copravolleyIf not Goggia DNF, it would have been an Italian double probably. Pity.
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It is just worth remembering that Colturi and Ljutić, for example, no longer compete in these junior competitions. The worst thing that can happen to Collomb now is that the Italian media will forcefully make her out to be succesor of Brignone and put pressure on her. As of today, she doesn`t seem a talent on the level of Fede or Colturi and such confusion can only harm this young girl.
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I said that I love Brignone, recently? No... I said that I love Brignone very much
Expandyep
Finally! The most deserved gold in history. Win without any discussion, so that no one else can push in. Now it's time for the second World Cup in her career.
Edited by copravolleyExpandThe only interesting story today was Shiffrin dissing Vonn and later won with Johnson, while Vonn finished well behind, mostly due to her downhill.
This doesn`t surprise me, because these are completely different generations of skiers and Schiffrin preferred to start with her friend, who is currently better sports level than Vonn. She might have chosen Vonn only because of pressure from sponsors and the media.
It's just that in winter Italy doesn't have any flagship sport (like Germany in luge, Austria and Sui in alpine skiing) and recently we've had practically no positive surprises for outsiders, like in summer events. We have the multitude of 4-5 places and still watching the backs of the powers in different sports, whether in luge or alpine skiing etc. In alpine skiing we have strong girls but if that translates into 1-2 medals at the World Championships, then we have nothing to talk about. Especially since Brignone and Goggia are over 30. Next year's winter games will be an epochal defeat for us, because it will be difficult to even win 10 medals. Only speed skating and short track can save us.
Some results in the last few days in several competitions:
- Paris: 4 in men`s downhill (0,15 to podium),
- Goggia: 5 in women`s Super G (0,06 to podium),
- Paris: 7 in men`s Super G (0,16 to podium),
- Fischnaller: 4 in men`s single luge,
- Voetter/Oberhofer: 4 in women`s double.
Only Brignone in women`s Super G have a medal but only silver behind 0,10 sec. Venier from Austria.
It's really hard to watch you constantly lose to Germans, Austrians or Swiss in various disciplines and you're helpless in it and no other positive surprise compensates you for it. I'm slowly getting fed up.
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We only have Brignone's chance left in the giant slalom. If she doesn't make it, we'll end up with 1 silver in the Olympic events. Very bad.
Expandwhat?
you can normally ski on tougher courses in the Europa/Nor-Am Cup
it's the 3rd time in a row that a major DH (and Super-G) medal course is absolutely unworthy (2022 OG, 2023 and Today's WCh)
luckily, in Beijing it was Suter ahead of Goggia saving the dignity of the final standing, but the last 2 world champs, man! gold to people with 0 world cup wins (and a loughable number of podiums)...it might be the beauty of the sport, but it's also something that shouldn't happen this often
the Italians are simply not good enough at this kind of game, they're used to train and race on different kind of tracks (and snow) and it was clear since the first training run that they didn't stand a chance on this course (I don't know how Brignone could end up with silver in Super-G, especially that kind of "Super-G for beginners")
Goggia before her last injuries in period: 2022/2024, would have fought for gold even on this course. Unfortunately, another accidents have taken their health and she is no longer the same skier she was before. Throughout the current season, Goggia has been at a lower level in the downhill than Brignone, which was once unthinkable. Apart from Goggia, Brignone couldn't do anything yesterday and Delago and Pirovano aren`t currently at medal level.
Edited by copravolleyIt's a shame about Brignone, but sport isn't fair. Brignone has never been lucky in the World Championships. Hopefully she wins the giant slalom, but she can't out off the track.
Gold, nice.
They should have already run the final and only then released these songs. I didn't expect that Austria - the homeland of alpine skiing - would pull such a embarrassment. I think that they decided that this is a non-Olympic competition and could be treated more loosely.
Edited by copravolleyA great success especially for 18-year-old Collomb. For Della Mea it is also the first medal in a senior event.
It's not an Olympic event anymore, but it's always nice to win a medal. Especially someone as young as Giorgia Collomb.
Edited by copravolleyBrignone may lose the general classification to Gut by not finishing a lot of giants slalom: 3 DNFs out of 5. Today she could have taken less risks and finished 2nd in front of Gut but she lost 80 points to her.
Bassino hasn`t only had problems with her health this season but also with her bad form.
Edited by copravolleyExpandBlanc finishing 2nd in her 3rd race in WC.
Thats something.
Great race for Vonn.
Until recently, Austria was the hegemon in this sport, and for several years it has been Switzerland. There must be huge money going there for several years, looking at their results. They have stars in every discipline, wide squads, young successors. When I compare it with Italy, there is no comparison. After Brignone and Goggia left, we have almost no one, and Switzerland pulls out some super talented 21/22 year old every 2-3 years.
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Finally all the hard work for Albert pays off and he has his first WC victory at age 27
And he won in one of the most legendary slaloms in Madonna.
Also maybe a symbolic moment, because until now, the only WC victory for Bulgaria was Petar Popangelov's 1980 slalom win on .... January 8th.
And we are January 8th , 45 years later.
Give us a link to the video with Bulgarian commentary of this competition.
The Colturi case affair is becoming increasingly loud in the Italian media. Yesterday commentators on the Italian public channel Rai began to openly say that they hope Lara will return to Italy and also criticize the terrible form of the Italian team in the women's slalom. I`m very happy about this, because the louder this affair is, the greater the pressure will be on the Italian federation to come to an agreement with the Colturi team (pressure from CONI, the ministry and maybe even higher).
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