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Monzanator

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  1. Swden wins! Lampic beats Falla for silver! Only shows how lucky Falla was in the individual sprint! She had nothing on the final straight.
  2. Roni Remme could get her maiden WC podium here...
  3. Polish TV said apparently the snowcat that worked around the finish line damaged the cable that transmitted the data to the official computers With Stuhec injured, it will be either Schmidhofer or Siebenhofer winning the DH globe anyway so I guess Austria gets over this scandal
  4. Team Sweden's had enough success already. Nelin, Brorsson & Oeberg all DNS in the pursuit.
  5. Markus Eisenbichler is the 7th individual World Champion who hasn't won a single World Cup event before winning the WC gold. The other 6: Heinz Kuttin (1991 NH) Espen Bredesen (1993 LH) Takanobu Okabe (1995 NH) Tommy Ingebrigtsen (1995 LH) Rok Benkovic (2005 NH) Rune Velta (2015 NH) Ingebrigtsen, Benkovic & Velta never won a World Cup event and Benkovic didn't even finish on the podium once.
  6. Anyone has the team sprint line-ups? Justyna Kowalczyk / Monika Skinder & Maciej Starega / Dominik Bury.
  7. Poland will field Stefan Hula instead of Wolny. Given Zyla's struggles today I'll be shocked if we get onto the podium. Sounds like 1.Germany, 2.Norway, 3.Austria IMO.
  8. You're joking, right? Nobody in World Champs Top 30 and you say about quality? With their history in the sport? Jarkko Maette has never scored a single Top 10 in 8 years of World Cup career and this guy makes the team here? Finland is hilariously bad right now and definitely NOT improving. A drunken Harri Olli could have made this WC ahead of Alammomo & Nouisiaien and he was already from the fading period.
  9. Equipment belongs to the competition factor? This comes at every level, they don't use wooden rackets in tennis anymore but nobody says the level has dropped because Federer doesn't use wood anymore Did you forget about Ammann's ski bindings which apparently gave him the edge before? EVERYONE tries to cheat the system. That comes with the technology jump. Can't blame someone for doing a better job
  10. I follow ski jumping since the days of Weissflog, Ernst Vettori & Andreas Felder. The only team that is really gone is Finland. Everyone else has a better or worse crop of jumpers but they never drop below a certain level. Nobody would put a penny on Toni Nieminen before 1992 either. That's the nature of this sport. It's easy to explode with form and then completely vanish within a few months. Just look where Peter Prevc is now compared to 2016. Kobayashi gets a bad press because Japan was supposed to be a field-filler like in the last decade, he doesn't speak English too and the sport has become European-centric again. The level has actually gone up to the point some hills struggle with the starting gates, some hills are already at Level 1 and can't be modified anymore. That's one thing nobody ever talks about. 130 meters from Gate 15 in 1998 is nothing like 130m from Gate 1 in 2019
  11. It's about him retiring even after the season. People keep forgetting there's a team competition as well even if SUI only fights for Top 8 at best.
  12. If you can name Ammann's replacement for the team competition I'm all ears
  13. Perfect 3/3 podium in women's skiathlon Guess we don't have to wait until the final day to have this unlike Are WC Roethe won the gold a little too early for me though!
  14. Kobayashi winning 4 hills wasn't a shock given his 11 totals wins this season. Diethart winning 4 Hills was a shock.
  15. It's not the suit tbh. He could have stood a bit differently during measurement which exposed it. That's the common error. After all there was nothing wrong with the suit in the 1st round?
  16. River Radamus sounds like a name that would be a hit on the World Cup tour. Not as cool as AJ Kitt but still
  17. Top ranked German Leyhe is skipped for the squad and Wellinger is a complete no-show this season. What is Schuster doing?
  18. Austria has lodged a protest over the lost podium but it won't be settled today.
  19. Why is even Klaebo entered in this race? Norway must have a ton of endurance guys and Klaebo isn't one of them?
  20. It's Symbicort Games since Norway got spanked in Liberec 2009 and had to do something about it. The rest is irrelevant.
  21. There's no way Haehlen got 1:30.13. A complete screwjob by the Swiss. I hope they ban Crans Montana for a long time now...
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