Alpine Skiing 2016 - 2017 Discussion Thread

[dcro 10,210]

4 minutes ago, hckosice said:

poor Petra, very stupid format .

 

Congrats Veronika

 

Why is it stupid? Skiers are simply seeded by their rankings, certainly better than a random draw.

[hckošice 14,834]

6 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Why is it stupid? Skiers are simply seeded by their rankings, certainly better than a random draw.

 

yes but they should make some exceptions to not allow skiers from the same country meet each other in the first 2 rounds

[hckošice 14,834]

Don´t know but at first viewc Veronika looks in interesting form before the world championships

[hckošice 14,834]

podium

[hckošice 14,834]

Strasser in final wow

[Federer91 2,796]

These city events always have some strange winner/finalist 

[hckošice 14,834]

meh

[hckošice 14,834]

Shiffrin and Strasser storm Stockholm

 

It was a tale of two victories at tonight’s parallel city event in Stockholm, Sweden. On the men’s side, German Linus Strasser emerged as victor among a field loaded with the top names to claim his first-ever World Cup victory and podium. Meanwhile American tech ace Mikaela Shiffrin earned her 28^th Audi FIS World Cup win and her 40^th podium.

 

Strasser, who was a late replacement for teammate Felix Neureuther, entered the competition with bib 15, setting up a tough first round match-up against Norwegian slalom king Henrik Kristoffersen. But Kristoffersen went down in the first round, just like his main slalom rival Marcel Hirscher (AUT), paving the way for the rest of the field. Strasser had yet another had test in the semi-finals against hometown hero Mattias Hargin, but he made it past that obstacle, much to the disappointment of the massive sell out crowd, to move onto the finals.

 

One last hurdle awaited Strasser, Frenchman Alexi Pinturault, who was his toughest match of the evening as the two matched each other turn for turn. In the end, Strasser edged Pinturault and skied away with his first World Cup win. Hargin ultimately finished third. 

 

"I am here instead of Felix because of his knee and he said, ‘Come on, boy. That’s your chance. You’re in it to win it,’ and I took my chance," said Strasser. “Yeah, you know, it goes so fast, and then in the next moment you’re standing in the finals against Alexis (Pinturault) and that feels amazing. And then I thought, ‘Alright, now you’re in the final. Now, you have a chance to win it’ and yeah, so I did.”

 

Shiffrin had an equally difficult path to her win. In the first round, Shiffrin had to swerve to avoid a near collision with Adeline Baud Mugnier (FRA). After surviving that scare, Marie-Michele Gagnon (CAN) was Shiffrin’s next victim, setting up the semi-final showdown against crowd favorite Frida Hansdotter (SWE). Once again, the Swedish fans had to settle for the disappointment of seeing their favorite knocked out of the finals.

 

Shiffrin met Veronika Velez Zuzulova (SVK) in the final and continued to be flawless as she cruised to her first ever City Event victory. Additionally, Shiffrin picked up valuable points in the hunt for the overall World Cup title as her biggest competition Lara  Gut (SUI) sat out tonight’s race. Nina Loeseth of Norway finished third. 

 

“Yeah, I mean, it was a great show tonight. I think everybody enjoyed it. We could here you (the fans) screaming. It was really fun," said Shiffrin. "I trained a little bit of slalom and trained a little super-G in the same day and then I went and raced and the conditions there (Cortina) were perfect, so it was a great day to just go for it. Today, yeah, I don’t know, I just trained a little this morning, and tried to do it. I came here for a reason, so happy to get that crossed off the list." 

 

Tonight’s city event was the last on the World Cup tour before the World Championships begin in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Two weeks of action await the alpine ski world when action kicks off on February 6th.

 

 

Full Results Men and Women

 

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

So if these Ukrainians had a DNF, or if they had (a lot slower) a little slower times, then the Pakistani girl would have been well inside the Olympic qualification points...

 

Edited February 19, 2017 by dcro

[heywoodu 15,142]

9 minutes ago, dcro said:

So if these Ukrainians had a DNF, or if they had (a lot slower) a little slower times, then the Pakistani girl would have been well inside the Olympic qualification points...

 

 

If only the Pakistani's had Vanessa Mae's money...