Gigs

That hardly could have gone any worse for Austria. Hirscher disappointing and Schwarz injured

There was a really awkward "should we hug?" moment going on between Klaebo and Pellegrino right after the finish

Sweden 

Wow this round easily could have ended with the top four of the setting order all out. Shiffrin and especially Hansdotter were quite lucky their opponents made mistakes close to the finish

In the city events with only 16 skiers there have always been 2 runs in all stages of the event. It's only the events like in Alta Badia, Courchevel or St. Moritz where that wasn't the case (for god knows what reason)

I wonder, am I the only one really wishing they would stop using gs gates for the parallel slaloms? It just seems so unfair to me now that everyone uses the cross blocking technique. Being heavy and tall is just such a huge advantage now and in a sport like skiing where 1.7 meter tall athletes compete against 2 meter tall athletes having a discipline that favors one of the two so immensly just seems nonsensical to me. Edit: Oh, and you have stuff like the flag sometimes randomly wrapping itself around the body or the pole of a skier like with Hirscher just now. @Shiffrin, yeah I completely agree. And I know they were using the slalom starting list but that's exactly my problem. Either you want a fair event, in that case the current system doesn't work as the Schwarz, Ryding example shows, or you want to use the slalom starting list to favor the best slalom skiers as you could argue they deserve that advantage. But then again you aren't exactly favoring the number one of the starting list by letting him go against the unbeatable Zenhäusern in the 2nd round.

The finalists of Oslo, Schwarz and Ryding already going against each other in the first round...the fis should really be able to figure out how stupid this is themselves.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Cross-Country Skiing Men's Sprint Freestyle February 21st, 2019 Alex Harvey Lucas Chavanat Richard Jouve Baptiste Gros Federico Pellegrino X Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo X Finn Haagen Krogh Sindre Bjoernestad Skar Alexander Bolshunov X Gleb Retivykh Any Athlete from Sweden Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Sprint Freestyle February 21st, 2019 Sandra Ringwald Mari Eide Maiken Caspersen Falla X Kristine Stavaas Sistad Any Other Athlete from Norway Natalia Nepryaeva Yulia Belorukova Any Athlete from Slovenia Nadine Faehndrich Maja Dahlqvist X Stina Nilsson X Any Other Athlete from Sweden Sophie Caldwell Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Individual Gundersen Large Hill 10km Cross-Country February 22nd, 2019 Martin Fritz Franz-Josef Rehrl Mario Seidl X Ilka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek X Akito Watabe Espen Bjoernstad Joergen Graabak Jarl Magnus Riiber X Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 7.5km+7.5km Skiathlon February 23rd, 2019 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski X Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Therese Johaug X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Heidi Weng Yulia Belorukova Natalia Nepryaeva Anastasia Sedova Natalie Von Siebenthal Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla X Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 15km+15km Skiathlon February 23rd, 2019 Alex Harvey Iivo Niskanen Maurice Manificat Francesco De Fabiani Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Sjur Roethe X Martin Johnsrud Sundby X Alexander Bolshunov X Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Men's Individual Large Hill February 23rd, 2019 Stefan Kraft X Roman Koudelka Marcus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger Stephan Leyhe Ryoyu Kobayashi X Johann Andre Forfang Halvor Egner Granerud Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch X Piotr Zyla Timi Zajc Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Team Sprint Classical February 24th, 2019 Finland Germany Norway X Poland Russia X Slovenia Sweden X Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's Team Sprint Classical February 24th, 2019 Canada Finland France Great Britain Germany Italy X Norway X Russia X Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Team Sprint Large Hill 15km Cross-Country February 24th, 2019 Austria X Czech Republic Finland France Germany X Italy Japan Norway X Poland Russia United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Team Large Hill February 24th, 2019 Austria Czech Republic Finland Germany X Japan Norway X Poland X Russia Slovenia Switzerland Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Women's 10km Classical February 26th, 2019 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski X Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Therese Johaug X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg X Any Other Athlete From Norway Yulia Belorukova Natalia Nepryaeva Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla Sadie Bjornsen Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Women's Team Normal Hill February 26th, 2019 Austria Czech Republic France Germany X Italy Japan X Norway X Russia Slovenia United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's 15km Classical February 27th, 2019 Alex Harvey Iivo Niskanen X Any Athlete From France Francesco De Fabiani Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Martin Johnsrud Sundby X Didrik Toenseth Any Other Athlete From Norway Evgeniy Belov Alexander Bolshunov X Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Women's Individual Normal Hill February 27th, 2019 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Eva Pinkeling Katharina Althaus Juliane Seyfarth Ramona Straub Carina Voigt X Yuki Ito Sara Takanashi X Maren Lundby X Anna Odine Stroem Lidia Iakovleva Nika Kriznar Ursa Bogataj Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 4x5km Relay February 28th, 2019 Finland Germany Italy Norway X Russia X Slovenia Sweden X Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Individual Gundersen Normal Hill 10km Cross-Country February 28th, 2019 Martin Fritz Franz-Josef Rehrl Mario Seidl Eero Hirvonen Ilka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek X Akito Watabe X Joergen Graabak Jarl Magnus Riiber X Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 4x10km Relay March 1st, 2019 Canada Finland X France Germany Italy Norway X Russia X Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Individual Normal Hill March 1st, 2019 Stefan Kraft X Roman Koudelka Marcus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger Stephan Leyhe Ryoyu Kobayashi X Johann Andre Forfang Halvor Egner Granerud Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch X Piotr Zyla Timi Zajc Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 30km Mass Start Freestyle March 2nd, 2019 Krista Parmakoski Therese Johaug X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Heidi Weng X Any Other Athlete From Norway Yulia Belorukova Natalia Nepryaeva Anastasia Sedova Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla X Any Other Athlete from Sweden Nathalie Von Siebenthal Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Team Gundersen Normal Hill 4x5km Cross-Country March 2nd, 2019 Austria X Czech Republic Finland France Germany X Italy Japan Norway X Poland Russia United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Mixed Team Normal Hill March 2nd, 2019 Austria Finland France Germany X Italy Japan X Norway X Poland Russia Slovenia United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's 50km Mass Start Freestyle March 3rd, 2019 Alex Harvey Jean Marc Gaillard Maurice Manificat Francesco De Fabiani Emil Iversen Sjur Roethe Martin Johnsrud Sundby X Any Other Athlete from Norway Alexander Bolshunov X Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna X Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Oh man, just saw the alpine skiing prediction contest result and, damn so close to the medals. I really regret my approach to the mens GS where instead of going with the obvious three guys on the podium I tried my luck with Luitz and Olssen. And actually if the temperatures had stayed cold and the slope in good condition I still think this prediction would have been a good gamble but ofc the weather wasn't as predicted. Now looking at the nordic skiing WC prediction contest, I'm realizing just how little nordic skiing I've watched this season. Not expecting a good result there.

Had almost the same prediction as you but with Schwarz as 2nd and Feller as 3rd

Not sure he knew what the standing was. He looked quite surprised when he saw Schwarz and Matt were the other medalists. Edit: Nevermind he just confirmed he knew Pinturault wasn't in the lead

Gotta say though this podium sweep is mostly a result of everyone else messing up. Especially Pinturault probably gave away gold with his mistake

Hadalin lost one hundred of a second between the first and second split. Then he looked as if his tank was simply empty but man the guy is in great slalom shape. Schwarz only winning bronze in the combined suddenly doesn't look that bad anymore.

I was rooting for Hirscher but you really can't feel overly bad about Kristofferson winning after all the close calls for him.

These champs have been one big catastrophe. Wind in Are, okay you expect that, fog in Are, too bad but that happens, but now even the slopes are crap because of high temperatures...in freakin Are. If there was one thing you could always count on in Are it was good slopes but now even that isn't the case.

Race is about to start and it isn't shortened

I agree, Hirscher overall is dominant but it always seems like he is on the absolute limit while Shiffrin usually looks completley at ease. Also, Hirscher has completely dominant races more rarely than Shiffrin and gets beaten quite a bit more often (I'm talking about Slalom here, things are different in gs) and at the same time if Hirscher gets beaten in the first run the 2nd is almost always a huge spectacle and you just gotta love that. Aside from Hirscher and Shiffrin the thing which to me is actually much more important is that currently the depth in men's slalom skiing is enormous. I mean, which female skiers can realistically win a medal? Shiffrin, Vlhova, Holdener, Hansdotter, Swenn Larsson, Liensberger, maybe Schild. It often feels like even if the skiers I didn't mention have a dream run, they are gonna get beaten anyway because the ones I listed are simply so much better skiers. On the men's side I don't have that feeling. The likelihood of a Croatian winning a medal isn't high but I wouldn't completely rule it out that one of them has a dream run and has his big breakthrough. It's just that this is the case for pretty much everyone in the top 30 who hasn't had his breakthrough already. Everyone is capable of beating everyone and that's really exciting.

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.

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

Oh boy does this taste sweet

Well, this didn't age well

First run of the ladies gs shortened due to bad weather. How man's shortened races have we had so far?

This gets even weirder when you click on the video and realize you've been in the hotel where the video was filmed

Yeah, but that wasn't really something to be proud of. Both slovakian women were completely dominated by their opponents but both slovenian men crashed which means slovakia won automatically