Alpine Skiing 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 16,004]

Marco Odermatt (SUI) has won gold in the team event, downhill, super-G and alpine combined (so far) at the junior world champs, impressive 

[heywoodu 16,004]

And there's the giant slalom gold for Odermatt, that's 5 gold medals in 5 events, by far the best ever performance by any skier at a junior world championships 

[heywoodu 16,004]

Noel dotting the i's before the Olympics..

 

[dcro 10,210]

Can't wait for this name to start winning some medals.

 

[heywoodu 16,004]

9 hours ago, dcro said:

Can't wait for this name to start winning some medals.

 

You mean Sara Dellantonio? Since that's the longest surname here in terms of syllables...  

[ChandlerMne 1,202]

Wow,Tschurtschenthaler,that is really tongue breaker. 

[heywoodu 16,004]

7 minutes ago, ChandlerMne said:

Wow,Tschurtschenthaler,that is really tongue breaker. 

Actually it's really rather easy  

 

Personally I'd find Ignjatovic's name harder to pronounce, because of the 'gnj' (and I don't have troubles with that neither)  

[ChandlerMne 1,202]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Actually it's really rather easy  

 

Personally I'd find Ignjatovic's name harder to pronounce, because of the 'gnj' (and I don't have troubles with that neither)  

I know that our commentators are strugling even with easier german names, but this one would be problematic not just for them.  That is experience i have from listening mostly english commentators pronouncing everything ouside anglo area. 

Yes,those consonants in serbian are tricky. Good pronounciation by non natives is rare. 

[heywoodu 16,004]

Making a very, very long story short: Valon Behrami, some random footballer, is doing it with Lara 

 

Spoiler

 

 

[heywoodu 16,004]

Guillermo Fayed has retired.