Alpine Skiing FIS World Cup 2019 - 2020

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Meanwhille Corinne Suter wins her first World Cup race in Altenmarkt downhill. Nicol Delago 2nd, Michelle Gisin 3rd. Ledecka 8th.

 

Breezy Johnson made her comeback after 22 months off with two injuries and finished 25th.

[heywoodu 16,431]

That was one weird men's giant slalom  

 

Awesome result for Zubcic

[Monzanator 5,072]

Btw, it's been confirmed Manfred Moelgg suffered a torn ACL. Given his age this could be game over for him.

[hckošice 16,569]

Petra, just unbelievable and by this gone the chance to bring a crystal globe to Slovakia...

 

one of her seasons goals gone ...

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Globe for three races just isn't anything to look for.

 

But, still 200 more points to be given.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Combination is interesting discipline in the way where we watch just how silly will it get.

Still miles better than parallel nonsenses.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

And silly, it was. Just 47 starters, 31 finishers.

 

And apparently, we're going with 1st in this race -> 1st starter in slalom, 2nd -> 2nd and so on and on...? So, pretty much no point watching a lot of second race. No more looking forward to various straddling while waiting for the last racers...

 

 

[hckošice 16,569]

3 minutes ago, Kirkpatrick said:

And silly, it was. Just 47 starters, 31 finishers.

 

And apparently, we're going with 1st in this race -> 1st starter in slalom, 2nd -> 2nd and so on and on...? So, pretty much no point watching a lot of second race. No more looking forward to various straddling while waiting for the last racers...

 

 

 

They changed it because apparently peoples started bashing that the Alpine Combined favored a lot slalom specialists ...now it have to favore the downhill specialists, but it looks peoples will not be happy again ..

 

I explained it right in the first page of this thread

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Might get better in some future races, but today for instance, second race is useless after first three starters. Men's race was over when Pinturault started 9th I believe.

 

So far, very much prefer previous order. Combination will never be fair.

 

 

And as I said, always was looking forward by just how much speed masters will lose in slalom races.

 

[phelps 8,635]

14 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

They changed it because apparently peoples started bashing that the Alpine Combined favored a lot slalom specialists ...now it have to favore the downhill specialists, but it looks peoples will not be happy again ..

 

I explained it right in the first page of this thread

 

Alpine Combined is not a race that should be in the schedule anymore...it doesn't make sense under a strict technical point of view, it's not more spectacular then any individual race, it favors the slalom specialists no matter what starting order is used...

 

however, the real "unfair" aspect of the world cup race is only the unbalanced schedule...until they don't change the number of technical and speed races, it's never going to be fair...

 

the question is only this one...they have to schedule the same number for each of the 4 true disciplines (and get rid of all the sh*t like combined races, parallel "things" -unless they develop the PSL as a real standalone discipline with fair rules for all the competitors and a fair race format). point.

 

p.s. in any case, it's fun to watch how the Austrian and Swiss federations build the world cup schedule according to their interests...when Tomba was dominant, they basically made it impossible for him (and all the technical skiers) to win the overall world cup (he had to find a lucky season to get just 1 in his entire career)...

then, when Hirscher became the lone star of Austrian skiing, they changed the distribution of the events letting all the speed specialists without a chance...

what's gonna happen next?