Alpine Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[OlympicsFan 858]

I am happy that Germany made the semifinal, but if Switzerland would have competed with their best team they probably would have won.

On paper it should be gold for Austria, silver for USA and bronze for Germany. Too bad that Dürr will race against Shiffrin, would have been better for her to face Moltzan.

[Triplecast 156]

11 minutes ago, MHSN said:

out of 16 QF races. 14 of them had won by the skier on the blue course and those other 2 races finished by DNF.

 

teams should put their best skiers for the blue course. Switzerland made a big mistake here by not using Holdner first.

 

USA announcers say Shiffrin on red course is a strategic move.  And that she will have to go all out to win on red course.

 

 

10 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

I am happy that Germany made the semifinal, but if Switzerland would have competed with their best team they probably would have won.

On paper it should be gold for Austria, silver for USA and bronze for Germany. Too bad that Dürr will race against Shiffrin, would have been better for her to face Moltzan.

It was USA's choice, as the higher seeded team.  Germany put up Duerr first, USA countered with Shiffrin.

 

[heywoodu 15,135]

And Dürr profits from blue as well  

[heywoodu 15,135]

7 minutes ago, Triplecast said:

USA announcers say Shiffrin on red course is a strategic move.

They've had better strategic moves, I guess  

[MHSN 3,619]

7 minutes ago, Triplecast said:

 

USA announcers say Shiffrin on red course is a strategic move.  And that she will have to go all out to win on red course.

 

yep. turned out to be a stupid strategy as expected. I mean that was obvious

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

A double DNF...

 

Germany advances to the finals

[Quaker2001 251]

Darn, that's disappointing.  At least they're still alive for bronze

[Orangehair43 251]

Is it normal for one course to unwinnable on? 

[NearPup 3,045]

Just now, Orangehair43 said:

Is it normal for one course to unwinnable on? 

A course is always faster, but this is on the more extreme end of things.

[heywoodu 15,135]

Julian Rauchfuss replaces Strasser.