Monzanator 3,593 Posted February 14, 2019 #341 Share Posted February 14, 2019 39 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said: Because Hirscher is winning super g/downhill races? Also Hirscher will be gone soon while Shiffrin will dominate for many more years. Shiffrin won 6 out of 7 slaloms, Hirscher won 4 out of 7. Shiffrin/Vlhova went 1-2 in 6 out of 7 races, theres in no way anyone can not call women's slalom the most boring discipline of all (apart from men's/women's alpine combined). Men's SL/GS is more boring because Kristoffersen has dropped off the boil badly when it seemed 2-3 years ago he can challenge Hirscher. He simply can't these days. If Hirscher avoids injury he's got 5-6 years left and him doing only tech events actually helps his longevity. He only got beat on merit once in slalom this season, the other two he simply eased off too much in the 1st run thinking he can win at 80%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigs 68 Posted February 14, 2019 #342 Share Posted February 14, 2019 vor 59 Minuten schrieb OlympicsFan: Austria without a single medal on the women's side and it may very well stay that way until the end. What a disaster performance for them. The performances weren't actually that bad, after all they got two 4th places. It's just that the speed specialists all weren't able to convert the great shape they have had all season into medals. In the gs we were never gonna win a medal with Brunner injured and in the Slalom we will see. The slope really doesn't suit Schild, Gallhuber is injured so really that leaves us with Liensberger as the only realiatic medal contender and tbf that's not a very promising prospect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigs 68 Posted February 14, 2019 #343 Share Posted February 14, 2019 vor 22 Minuten schrieb Monzanator: Men's SL/GS is more boring because Kristoffersen has dropped off the boil badly when it seemed 2-3 years ago he can challenge Hirscher. He simply can't these days. If Hirscher avoids injury he's got 5-6 years left and him doing only tech events actually helps his longevity. He only got beat on merit once in slalom this season, the other two he simply eased off too much in the 1st run thinking he can win at 80%. No way he is gonna continue that long though. He was already close to quitting last year and if I had to bet I'd actually put my money on him retiring after this season What I'd really like was him giving it a proper go at super-gs but that's not gonna happen unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,593 Posted February 14, 2019 #344 Share Posted February 14, 2019 1 minute ago, Gigs said: No way he is gonna continue that long though. He was already close to quitting last year and if I had to bet I'd actually put my money on him retiring after this season What I'd really like was him giving it a proper go at super-gs but that's not gonna happen unfortunately. He doesn't need SG to win the overall anymore. He will stay around if only to beat Stenmark's record. He's what, 18 wins behind? Though Shiffrin will probably eclipse them both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkpatrick 144 Posted February 14, 2019 #345 Share Posted February 14, 2019 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Monzanator said: Men's SL/GS is more boring because Kristoffersen has dropped off the boil badly when it seemed 2-3 years ago he can challenge Hirscher. He simply can't these days. If Hirscher avoids injury he's got 5-6 years left and him doing only tech events actually helps his longevity. He only got beat on merit once in slalom this season, the other two he simply eased off too much in the 1st run thinking he can win at 80%. Men's skiing is vastly superior. Quality wise, competition wise, entertainment wise. Edited February 14, 2019 by Kirkpatrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,593 Posted February 14, 2019 #346 Share Posted February 14, 2019 1 minute ago, Kirkpatrick said: Men's skiing is vastly superior. Quality wise, competition wise, entertainment wise. Speed events, yes but not the technical ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkpatrick 144 Posted February 14, 2019 #347 Share Posted February 14, 2019 (edited) I'm actually having only slalom in mind. You're free to disagree of course, but in my mind it's easy *win* for the men. I guess thanks to some cool new kids from Croatia as well. But not only because of that. There are just way more interesting athletes participating in the men's side, skiing looks better to me, and it's also always a pleasure seeing Hirscher doing one of his mad runs that usually wins him the races. Edited February 14, 2019 by Kirkpatrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,217 Posted February 14, 2019 Author #348 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Women´s Giant Slalom: 1. Petra Vlhova 2:01.97 2. Viktoria Rebensburg 2:02.11 3. Mikaela Shiffrin 2:02.35 Full Final Result HERE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Federer91 2,134 Posted February 14, 2019 #349 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Mikaela will unleash fury in the slalom Should have competed in the combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,217 Posted February 14, 2019 Author #350 Share Posted February 14, 2019 medal tally, no it´s not the same country.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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