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Geez, Gagnon totally forgot her slalom skills or what?

Gold for Shiffrin. Vlhova 0,52 secs slower in slalom alone.

OK, Gisin way slower than Shiffrin.

English ES just blew the gasket over Shiffrin. C'mon! Gisin and Vlhova can beat that...

Epic choke from Brignone... the delay didn't help of what?

If the slalom course is flat like they said I give more chances to Vlhova & Shiffrin tbh

Are these Szollos siblings the new Simari Birkners? We won't get rid of them for the next 15 years?

James Crawford takes the lead.

He is. I'm actually used to this sight, military colleges in USA have athletes pictured in suits as well (during NCAA football games I watch).

Luca Aerni trolling for another AC medal?

Brignone should be able to keep 0,97 ahead of Holdener but it's improbable she holds off Shiffrin, Gisin & Vlhova who are inside 0,40. This smells like a 4th place result for Brignone most likely save for some DNF.

Shiffrin 3rd, Vlhova 7th.

Gisin 0,26 behind Brignone but Holdener 0,97 behind.

Two errors for Bassino in Super G and that looks like another bad day for the hosts unless Brignone takes a different line on the top.

You wanted to know why Norway developed speed skaters lately (unlike Germany) to begin with. I suppose you wandered so much in trying to prove me wrong you forgot what I was originally responding to I'm impressed you managed to feature Nigeria in a thread about speed skating

Good thing van der Poel isn't a Russian or else we'd have instant doping allegations

Hauser's gone for silver indeed.

Hauser will probably outski Wierer for bronze.

1. Ingebrigtsen family and Warholm isn't exactly depth by international standards. Same as having Hattestad and Rodal in the 90s. 2. Yeah, two amazing players in the whole country. Just because half of Europe can qualify to Euro finals these days it doesn't mean anything - and Norway actually failed to qualify to begin with 3. Ireland has gaelic football & rugby and Belgium has cross cycling at the very least. Also motor racing/ motocross in Belgium which doesn't qualify under any Olympic standards.

If it's flat then weight should play a bigger factor (i.e. Vlhova performs better than recently and ofc Shiffrin). Bassino and Worley are rather lightweight skiers, they can indeed struggle on a flat GS course.

Most teams have regressed over the last 10+ years, it more or less started with French women's speed team, then Canadians went off the boil and hell, Austria has the worst depth on the women's side since I started watching alpine skiing. I believe the sport has gotten too expensive overall and even the traditional nations don't want to spend that much money anymore. USA & Canada have drifted into big success in freestyle skiing and quite frankly Germany is doing better in snowboard than alpine skiing as well. The rise of freestyle skiing in the last decade or so has shallowed the talent pool for alpine skiing IMO.

Yeah, but sprinters are more vulnerable with age? Erbanova retired way too early for whatever reason. Sablikova will be winning WCh medals until she's 40yo and Bowe probably keeps going until she wins an individual Olympic medal (while Richardson also retired prematurely). I imagine Leenstra was feeling the heat from Dutch competition and she was never a pure winner to begin with. Always behind someone's back.

No meltdown... Jacquelin was in Wierer mode there.

Well, Bassino wasn't even in high school back then?

Still can't rule out a total meltdown on the last shoot