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Alpine Skiing FIS World Cup 2017 - 2018


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4 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

The combined is becoming such a joke I wonder how long it takes before FIS erases this event from World Cup? The speed speciallists stand no chance of even getting a random podium anymore.

 

In what book is Gisin not a speed specialist? Or Brignone? :p

 

Holdener and Shiffrin also have speed events podiums, so yeah, indeed it's the combiners that are getting the podium in this.

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8 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

In what book is Gisin not a speed specialist? Or Brignone? :p

 

Holdener and Shiffrin also have speed events podiums, so yeah, indeed it's the combiners that are getting the podium in this.

Brignone is definitely not a speed specialist :p 

 

She's very good at it, yes, but so is Shiffrin on her day. 

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11 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Brignone is definitely not a speed specialist :p 

 

She's very good at it, yes, but so is Shiffrin on her day. 

 

True. Fede's a GS specialist :d 

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The fact Shiffrin and Holdener are scoring DH & SG podums speaks about the weak level of speed events in general. Vonn is pretty much the most athletic-looking speed speciallist but even she looked a size smaller than Brydon, Merighetti and Kamer.

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2 minutes ago, Майкл said:

 

True. Fede's a GS specialist :d 

Exactly :d 

 

Gisin has made an impressive transformation from mediocre slalom specialist to good speed specialist :p 

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19 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Brignone is definitely not a speed specialist :p 

 

She's very good at it, yes, but so is Shiffrin on her day. 

 

Not an exclusive speed specialist, but very successful in the speed events nevertheless. :p

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2 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

The fact Shiffrin and Holdener are scoring DH & SG podums speaks about the weak level of speed events in general. Vonn is pretty much the most athletic-looking speed speciallist but even she looked a size smaller than Brydon, Merighetti and Kamer.

The large, 1,67m Merighetti... :p 

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4 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

I meant the other size ;)  She was quite bulky tbh.

 

Vonn probably had to lower muscle mass due to a lot of injuries :dunno: Back in the day, she used to be bulkier.

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Well, she was using the men's skis in training, right? I don't recall who said this about her training prgramme but it was supposedly impossible to follow for other women too.

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