Alpine Skiing FIS World Championships 2019

[Monzanator 4,499]

Nobody trains to be a good all-arounder anymore. People train to be elite in one event and they usually combine two to a very good degree and still only the best can be very good in three events (not anyone outside Shiffrin these days). All these short DHs give extra edge to technical skiers already who also profit from a much better shape of the slalom course anyway. Reversing Top 15 for the combined slalom would be the only way to cure this IMO but that hasn't happened.

[Federer91 2,793]

24 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Nobody trains to be a good all-arounder anymore. People train to be elite in one event and they usually combine two to a very good degree and still only the best can be very good in three events (not anyone outside Shiffrin these days). All these short DHs give extra edge to technical skiers already who also profit from a much better shape of the slalom course anyway. Reversing Top 15 for the combined slalom would be the only way to cure this IMO but that hasn't happened.

 

Combined is dead.

 

But if you had to tweak the slalom, start with the first of the downhill and go down the order. But that wouldn't be good for the "TV audience", so you can't help the combined, when there aren't the athletes for it... 

Edited February 11, 2019 by Federer91

[hckošice 14,822]

Slovenia vs Slovakia in 1st round of the Team event...no it´s not the same one country

[hckošice 14,822]

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USA withdrawal...

[EselTheDonkey 824]

vor 45 Minuten schrieb Federer91:

 

Combined is dead.

 

But if you had to tweak the slalom, start with the first of the downhill and go down the order. But that wouldn't be good for the "TV audience", so you can't help the combined, when there aren't the athletes for it... 

 

You could start with a Slalom run and then reverse the result for the starting order in the Downhill.

[intoronto 5,638]

19 minutes ago, hckosice said:

Slovenia vs Slovakia in 1st round of the Team event...no it´s not the same one country

At least one Slo makes it to the next round!

[hckošice 14,822]

Just now, intoronto said:

At least one Slo makes it to the next round!

 

yeah and I am afraid it´s gonna be the one with the sea coast

[Rafoo 218]

29 minutes ago, hckosice said:

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USA withdrawal...

Croatia?

[Kirkpatrick 144]

1 hour ago, Gigs said:

I should probably stop writing now as this post is already so long that nobody will read it anyway (right?) but this is just driving me crazy.

 

No, it's a good post, and nothing wrong with being long, but it's just painful to read. More paragraphs, sir! 

[Kirkpatrick 144]

12 minutes ago, Rafoo said:

Croatia?

 

No second girl.