Well, first, Poland is not so bad and at 2, it was the opening match, the first games are often very complicated against weaker sides, because of motivation and all physical forces still present
China won here against Poland on penalties... Poland recently lost very badly to Slovakia and Latvia at the World Champ. and is definitely the weakest team present here.
Last time someone won the Major event downhill with bib 1 was Patrick Ortlieb in Albertville Olympics 1992, so just to say how uncommon is to win the major Downhill with starting number 1.
I am not persuaded they are worse than Slovakia, but yep, definitely worse than Japan. All teams of the final tournaments are worse than Japan except Sweden whichi is +/- at the same level, followed by a small margin by Germany, Denmark, Hungary and France. Then we have a bigger gap ahead of Slovakia, China and some other more or less equal level teams like Norway and Austria. The Netherlands are an anomaly here, they are benefiting here from the rather fortunate circumstances that occurred two years ago resulting in their fluke maintaining in the division, but their real level is I am afraid a bit inferior than what their seeding tend to suggest
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