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Julia Mancuso gets in trouble on social media as snowflakes complain about her playing with snowflakes.  :lol:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9092327/US-ski-champion-Julia-Mancuso-defends-throwing-toddler-son-deep-snow.html

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Following the maiden Europa Cup slalom victory on her 17th birthday, Zrinka Ljutić took another victory today, this time in giant slalom.

 

Let's go. :cheer:

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Oh, wow. Chinese athletes are getting some uber inflated points on their 70 seconds long downhills. :d

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=AL&raceid=108586

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To follow up on these Chinese downhillers, it appears it all started last year...

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=AL&competitorid=178959&raceid=103606

 

Basically, a couple of Austrian and Italian skiers arrived to China with an aim of lowering FIS points? It all seems like a scheme a la Project Bogota.  But this is China, so nobody will get punished, of course. :whistle:

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Ted Ligety announces his retirement.  Will ski his last races in Cortina, then hang up his boots.

 

https://snowbrains.com/ted-ligety-announces-retirement/
 

Great skier, but maybe one of those guys that went a couple of years too long.

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all Wintersport World Cup events scheduled for the next weeks in Norway have been cancelled, from Alpine to Cross-Country Skiing, from Ski-Jumping to Nordic Combined...

 

and even if there's not official news yet, also Biathlon will be axed soon...

 

hopefully, a few of them will be rescheduled elsewhere, but I fear many others won't...

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/en/alpine-skiing/alpine-news-multimedia/news-multimedia/news/winter-2020-21/all-remaining-fis-world-cups-in-norway-cancelled

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We can have the SG in Bansko, but FIS will probably want a new full host for that weekend. Time for Wengen to get back the races they cancelled. 

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Little article about a Jamaican chasing qualification in Alpine Skiing: https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/02/16/benjamin-alexander-jamaica-skier

 

Don’t know what his FIS Points are, but it doesn’t sound like he’s close yet.

 

 

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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Competition starts today. There will be a livestream on the official website. Sadly there will only be 3 competitions for each gender (Super G, slalom, giant slalom). Surprisingly GB (on the men’s side) and Croatia (on the women’s side) could win some medals.

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