Alpine Skiing FIS World Championships 2019

[dcro 10,210]

Schladming 1982, ironically, was the last time the Austrian women failed to deliver a single medal.

Before that Zakopane 1939.
 

EDIT: Zakopane was after the anschluss, so it doesn't count. Then it's Engelberg 1938.

Edited February 14, 2019 by dcro

[heywoodu 15,141]

Vlhova  

[Shiffrin 33]

Congrats to Vlhova, the bottom part from her was amazing.

 

But I’m not sure what was going on with Mikaela, her first run seemed so passive, she seemed not to attack the course at all and her behaviour was a bit strange after Mowinckel got to the finish, securing Mikaela a medal, she just looked completely exhausted. Hope there’s not any injury and it was just a bad day, really want her to win 4th consecutive slalom world champs.

[Gigs 68]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb Kirkpatrick:

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.

I agree, Hirscher overall is dominant but it always seems like he is on the absolute limit while Shiffrin usually looks completley at ease. Also, Hirscher has completely dominant races more rarely than Shiffrin and gets beaten quite a bit more often (I'm talking about Slalom here, things are different in gs) and at the same time if Hirscher gets beaten in the first run the 2nd is almost always a huge spectacle and you just gotta love that. Aside from Hirscher and Shiffrin the thing which to me is actually much more important is that currently the depth in men's slalom skiing is enormous. I mean, which female skiers can realistically win a medal? Shiffrin, Vlhova, Holdener, Hansdotter, Swenn Larsson, Liensberger, maybe Schild. It often feels like even if the skiers I didn't mention have a dream run, they are gonna get beaten anyway because the ones I listed are simply so much better skiers. On the men's side I don't have that feeling. The likelihood of a Croatian winning a medal isn't high but I wouldn't completely rule it out that one of them has a dream run and has his big breakthrough. It's just that this is the case for pretty much everyone in the top 30 who hasn't had his breakthrough already. Everyone is capable of beating everyone and that's really exciting. 

[Gigs 68]

Race is about to start and it isn't shortened

[dcro 10,210]

Come on, even your average World cup finals have better conditions than this...

[Gigs 68]

These champs have been one big catastrophe. Wind in Are, okay you expect that, fog in Are, too bad but that happens, but now even the slopes are crap because of high temperatures...in freakin Are. If there was one thing you could always count on in Are it was good slopes but now even that isn't the case. 

[phelps 7,675]

still, it's gonna be an amazing fight between the current top 3 in the second run...

[dcro 10,210]

Henrik possibly threw away the gold on the bottom...

[dcro 10,210]