Alpine Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[Shiffrin 33]

  On 2/13/2018 at 3:34 AM, OlympicsFan said:

Yeah ... Dreßen, who won Kitzbühel, being 0.07 ahead of Svindal, despite Svindal having a huge mistake, is a complete miracle ... and now for Innerhofer the wind must have suddenly gotten much better again ...

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Innerhofer was faster at 2nd training plus you’re obviously biased if you think speed guys would only be just a second in front of Hirscher lol

Edited February 13, 2018 by Shiffrin

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'Random' American (of course a good skier) doing well, nobody saw that coming  Too bad he gave it away at the end 

[LowerSaxony 205]

  On 2/13/2018 at 3:32 AM, Shiffrin said:

Because the track is much slower now, or do you think all speed specialists are just all having bad runs?

 

It’s clear first 5 skiers had a big advantage.

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How would you say this when Svindal's +0.07sec with a huge mistake? Facts vs emotions?

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  On 2/13/2018 at 3:35 AM, Shiffrin said:

Innerhofer was faster at 2nd training plus you’re obviously biased if you think speed guys would only be just a second in front of Hirscher lol

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On this course it isn't that surprising that Hirscher is so close. It are only about 80 seconds and it looks more like a Super-G. If you want, i can search for results of previous combined events, i am sure that Hirscher/Pinturault being about 1.25% slower than the top time happend before.

[Shiffrin 33]

  On 2/13/2018 at 3:38 AM, LowerSaxony said:

How would you say this when Svindal's +0.07sec with a huge mistake? Facts vs emotions?

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Or you know Svindal would be even faster? Just because he was +0.07 behind Dressen doesn’t mean he wouldn’t be even better in fair conditions.

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  On 2/13/2018 at 3:38 AM, heywoodu said:

'Random' American (of course a good skier) doing well, nobody saw that coming  Too bad he gave it away at the end 

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Surprise, surprise, wind again increased (to the direction of their back).

[Shiffrin 33]

  On 2/13/2018 at 3:40 AM, OlympicsFan said:

On this course it isn't that surprising that Hirscher is so close. It are only about 80 seconds and it looks more like a Super-G. If you want, i can search for results of previous combined events, i am sure that Hirscher/Pinturault being about 1.25% slower than the top time happend before.

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Let me refer to you to the 2nd training where Hirscher was +3.91 seconds behind on this same course, while he may not have been going 100%, it’s still stupid to think his run today wasn’t helped by great conditions as opposed to later bibs.

[LowerSaxony 205]

  On 2/13/2018 at 3:40 AM, Shiffrin said:

Or you know Svindal would be even faster? Just because he was +0.07 behind Dressen doesn’t mean he wouldn’t be even better in fair conditions.

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Of course we don't. How could we? But it shows that even later BIBs have a chance to beat Dressen. Btw we do not see around 40% of the course.

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 2/13/2018 at 3:40 AM, Shiffrin said:

Or you know Svindal would be even faster? Just because he was +0.07 behind Dressen doesn’t mean he wouldn’t be even better in fair conditions.

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Svindal wasn't much ahead of Dreßen in training + Svindal had a big mistake today, i don't think it's out of this world to think that Dreßen might just have been better today ... Even if we say that the wind changed, it can't have been more than 0.2/0.3 seconds of a difference. Do you think that Svindal would have been 1 second ahead of Dreßen on this short/easy track? Even before the competition the Eurosport guys said that the conditions today are more in favor of Dreßen than Svindal, because Svindal is much more agressive and that doesn't work very well with the snow conditions today.