Alpine Skiing FIS World Championships 2019

[Monzanator 4,499]

39 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Because Hirscher is winning super g/downhill races? Also Hirscher will be gone soon while Shiffrin will dominate for many more years.

Shiffrin won 6 out of 7 slaloms, Hirscher won 4 out of 7. Shiffrin/Vlhova went 1-2 in 6 out of 7 races, theres in no way anyone can not call women's slalom the most boring discipline of all (apart from men's/women's alpine combined).

 

Men's SL/GS is more boring because Kristoffersen has dropped off the boil badly when it seemed 2-3 years ago he can challenge Hirscher. He simply can't these days. If Hirscher avoids injury he's got 5-6 years left and him doing only tech events actually helps his longevity. He only got beat on merit once in slalom this season, the other two he simply eased off too much in the 1st run thinking he can win at 80%.

[Gigs 68]

vor 59 Minuten schrieb OlympicsFan:

Austria without a single medal on the women's side and it may very well stay that way until the end.

What a disaster performance for them.

The performances weren't actually that bad, after all they got two 4th places. It's just that the speed specialists all weren't able to convert the great shape they have had all season into medals. In the gs we were never gonna win a medal with Brunner injured and in the Slalom we will see. The slope really doesn't suit Schild, Gallhuber is injured so really that leaves us with Liensberger as the only realiatic medal contender and tbf that's not a very promising prospect

[Gigs 68]

vor 22 Minuten schrieb Monzanator:

 

Men's SL/GS is more boring because Kristoffersen has dropped off the boil badly when it seemed 2-3 years ago he can challenge Hirscher. He simply can't these days. If Hirscher avoids injury he's got 5-6 years left and him doing only tech events actually helps his longevity. He only got beat on merit once in slalom this season, the other two he simply eased off too much in the 1st run thinking he can win at 80%.

No way he is gonna continue that long though. He was already close to quitting last year and if I had to bet I'd actually put my money on him retiring after this season

What I'd really like was him giving it a proper go at super-gs but that's not gonna happen unfortunately.

[Monzanator 4,499]

1 minute ago, Gigs said:

No way he is gonna continue that long though. He was already close to quitting last year and if I had to bet I'd actually put my money on him retiring after this season

What I'd really like was him giving it a proper go at super-gs but that's not gonna happen unfortunately.

 

He doesn't need SG to win the overall anymore. He will stay around if only to beat Stenmark's record. He's what, 18 wins behind? Though Shiffrin will probably eclipse them both.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

33 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Men's SL/GS is more boring because Kristoffersen has dropped off the boil badly when it seemed 2-3 years ago he can challenge Hirscher. He simply can't these days. If Hirscher avoids injury he's got 5-6 years left and him doing only tech events actually helps his longevity. He only got beat on merit once in slalom this season, the other two he simply eased off too much in the 1st run thinking he can win at 80%.

 

Men's skiing is vastly superior. Quality wise, competition wise, entertainment wise.

Edited February 14, 2019 by Kirkpatrick

[Monzanator 4,499]

1 minute ago, Kirkpatrick said:

 

Men's skiing is vastly superior. Quality wise, competition wise, entertainment wise.

 

Speed events, yes but not the technical ones.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

I'm actually having only slalom in mind.

 

You're free to disagree of course, but in my mind it's easy *win* for the men. I guess thanks to some cool new kids from Croatia as well. But not only because of that. There are just way more interesting athletes participating in the men's side, skiing looks better to me, and it's also always a pleasure seeing Hirscher doing one of his mad runs that usually wins him the races.

Edited February 14, 2019 by Kirkpatrick

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Women´s Giant Slalom:

 

1. Petra Vlhova    2:01.97

2. Viktoria Rebensburg    2:02.11

3. Mikaela Shiffrin    2:02.35

  

 

Full Final Result HERE

 

[Federer91 2,793]

Mikaela will unleash fury in the slalom  Should have competed in the combined.

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medal tally, no it´s not the same country..