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Alpine Skiing FIS World Championships 2019


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Good thing the combined is gone. Another Super G course bullshit for this event. Siebenhofer probably lost a medal because of this, she did much better than expected in the slalom. This event is so favoring the technical skiers it's broderline criminal. Good riddance and thumbs up for Shiffrin & Hirscher ignoring it. The proper way to die.

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59 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

This event is so favoring the technical skiers it's broderline criminal. 

Like I said, the problem is not with the existence of a combined event, which should be there in my opinion, but with the way the courses are currently set up.

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I think the main problem is that FIS itself doesn't want combined. It's strange how a federation itself wants to remove an Olympic event, but they've been progressively doing that season after season, with combined now being barely in the WC calendar.

#banbestmen

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The combined only works well when there are allrounders who easily beat the specialists but right now there are very few of those (shiffrin and gisin come to mind on the women's side but both didn't participate today, while there isn't really anyone on the men's side). It's hard to say whether the combined is dying due to a lack of allrounders or if there are no allrounders because there are hardly any combineds nowadays and if there is one it's usually a castrated super-g combined where the slalom specialists are basically unbeatable. I really wish the fis would keep the combined alive just a little longer as it could be crucial in the overall world cup battle once Hirscher isn't around anymore and that could suddenly make the event much more attractive to the Pinturaults, kriechmayers and kildes of the world.

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