Alpine Skiing FIS World Cup 2019 - 2020

[heywoodu 15,147]

52 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Well, the Polish anthem's lyrics were written in 1797 in Reggio Emilia so it's obvious Italy has a prominent place in the lyrics Even though that part of Italy was under French rule back then

And when you go (way) further back in time, you find the Dutch anthem where the main verse - the one that's generally sung - ends with "The King of Spain....I've always honoured"  

[Monzanator 4,505]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And when you go (way) further back in time, you find the Dutch anthem where the main verse - the one that's generally sung - ends with "The King of Spain....I've always honoured"  

 

Technically speaking Wilhelm Orange was a German, right?

 

Same shit as Poland's most famous epic poem that starts with: "O Lithuania, my homeland"

 

The poet who wrote this was Polish but simply lived in Lithuania then under Russian Empire rule but currently his birth place is actually within Belarus borders

 

Nothing like the geo-politics of centuries gone by!

[phelps 7,679]

10 hours ago, Monzanator said:

 

Well, the Polish anthem's lyrics were written in 1797 in Reggio Emilia so it's obvious Italy has a prominent place in the lyrics Even though that part of Italy was under French rule back then

 

yeah, but that area was also the main cradle of the Resistence against Napoleon and actually the Italian Flag as all the people know nowadays was created in Reggio Emilia on January 7th, 1797, in open opposition to all those who wanted to adopt the French Tricouleur following Napoleon's will...

[dcro 10,210]

Our slalom team is beyond useless at this point.

[hckošice 14,836]

Shiffrin in rage mood, destroying everyone again,

 

Vlhová with quite bad qualification runs and will have a very hard draw, if she pass Danioth, then probably she´ll have to face Brignone in 2nd round, Robinson in QF and Holdener/Rebensburg in semis, Shiffrin thanks her win in the qualifiers has basically no opposition until the final

 

yes the clash of 1st round is certainly Holdener vs Rebensburg

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Zubčić is in nice form though.

 

And PGS is as dull as always.     

[hckošice 14,836]

Vlhová out in 1st round. Great runs by Danioth, Kudos to the swiss, she beat her in both runs.

[phelps 7,679]

bad knee injury for Danioth

 

good results for the Italian girls (3rd, 4th and 5th place at the end of the day)...

 

and overall, very entertaining competition with a lot of surprises (if someone did dare to bet on a gold medal clash between Direz and Moerzinger, probably right now he/she'd be preparing his/her luggage to fly to the Caribbean for the rest of his/her life)...

 

p.s. first ever WC podium for both the finalists...

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Apparently, 20-3 for blue course.

 

Even if it's boring, they should make it atleast more fair with two races from 1/8 finals.

[hckošice 14,836]

Stage 21 in Sestriere (ITA)

 

Women´s Parallel Giant Slalom:

 

1. Clara Direz   

2. Elisa Moerzinger 

3. Marta Bassino   

 

Full Final Result HERE