Gigs

As people from the host country would say (according to google translate): Pela primeira vez, a Áustria está em
 
In other words, for the very first time, Austria is in 

 
 
At least I think it's the very first time. Hope I understood the rules and didn't miss the deadline. 

As people from the host country would say (according to google translate): Pela primeira vez, a Áustria está em
 
In other words, for the very first time, Austria is in 

 
 
At least I think it's the very first time. Hope I understood the rules and didn't miss the deadline. 

As people from the host country would say (according to google translate): Pela primeira vez, a Áustria está em
 
In other words, for the very first time, Austria is in 

 
 
At least I think it's the very first time. Hope I understood the rules and didn't miss the deadline. 

Pretty much agree with everything you wrote 

One shouldn't forget that a combined slalom isn't really like a normal slalom since the skiers have "heavy" legs after a super-g of downhill run. Gisin is a specialist for switching from speed disciplines to slalom
 
edit: btw brignone is a specialist for that too

Good by guys. Gonna participate at the mass suicide event for all Austrian xc skiing fans

Good by guys. Gonna participate at the mass suicide event for all Austrian xc skiing fans

Time to write history 

I get it, every freakin sport needs a team event nowadays so alpine skiing needs one too. But at one point the fis has to decide whether they want to make a team event which represents the strength of the whole alpine skiing team, or a team event which represents the strength of the nations slalom (or rather parallel slalom) team. Because right now the fis behaves as if the former was the case while everyone with a brain sees in fact the latter is. This leeds to the stupid situation that for the 2nd year in a row one quarter final of the team event will be Austria vs Sweden, or said differently a duel between two of the top favorites while one of the other quarter finals will probably be Italy vs France. Those two teams might have great alpine skiing teams, but their slalom teams this year are simply nowhere near the ones of Austria and Sweden. I actually calculated what a slalom nation world cup would look like and it would be 1.) Austria 2.) Switzerland 3.) Norway and 4.) Sweden. However Norway would only be in front of Sweden because of Jansrud's 15 points which he got at a city event just for starting which brings up the question why the hell points like that are taken into consideration for making the bracket for this event too. Still taking this order to determine the duels for the team event would be so much fairer. I really think Austria has a team with medal potential, but I just don't see how on earth they could beat Sweden as long as no Swedish skier makes a huge mistake. 
 
Btw, I don't want to behave as if this problem only exists for Austria. Ofc Sweden is unlucky too to have such a strong opponent early on (although it's imo not as bad for them since I think no team other than Switzerland has a half decent chance of beating them anyway) and Switzerland will also have a pretty strong opponent in Germany or maybe even Slovakia. Talking of Slovakia, too bad for them Vlhova won two races, cause without those 200 points they swap places with Canada and all of a sudden Slovakia has a good chance to get into the semi final. (at least if Velez Zuzulova is in a half decent shape now, otherwise they don't have a chance anyway) 
 
I know the fis is currently trying to renew alpine skiing but why the hell can't they use their brain for once. They are making so many stupid things it's unbelievable. Can't wait for the first major championships where we'll have a slalom, a parallel slalom, and a parallel slalom team event, but no super-g and no combined. 

I recorded the race and WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH. 
Ofc this result doesn't represent the strength of the teams but still it was hilarious. Wierer going from first to tenth and back to first, Finland for a moment looked like they could end makarainen's olympic nightmare, freakin poland leads at the last exchange, Öberg wins silver after Sweden completely fucked up the first 3/4 of their race. Domracheva almost gives away gold but rescues it with her three final shots. This race had so many crazy moments it's unbelievable 

Might have hoped for a good moguls result although he forgot to make a 2nd trick

I wouldn't be surprised. Noël is one of the best young skiers right now and might be the guy who'll challange kristoffersen when hirscher has retired. I know it's probably too early to tell but I was incredibly impressed by his performances in the last world cup slaloms. 
You're talking about a top ten, but I actually think he could cause a huge upset and win a medal. I wouldn't be more surprised than about Gallhuber winning bronze

What you are saying is basically "all medals which weren't almost completely certain are surprises". There are events in which you don't have three clear favorites and in some of those you'll make a medal, in some of those you won't. It's not surprising the Italian men's ski team didn't win a medal in the speed events but it also wouldn't have been surprising if they had won one. Same for the women in the gs. Seriously, calling brignone's medal a surprise is just ridiculous. 
Btw, Arndt Peiffer's gold medal is not a surprise to you but Windisch winning any medal is?

What you are saying is basically "all medals which weren't almost completely certain are surprises". There are events in which you don't have three clear favorites and in some of those you'll make a medal, in some of those you won't. It's not surprising the Italian men's ski team didn't win a medal in the speed events but it also wouldn't have been surprising if they had won one. Same for the women in the gs. Seriously, calling brignone's medal a surprise is just ridiculous. 
Btw, Arndt Peiffer's gold medal is not a surprise to you but Windisch winning any medal is?

What you are saying is basically "all medals which weren't almost completely certain are surprises". There are events in which you don't have three clear favorites and in some of those you'll make a medal, in some of those you won't. It's not surprising the Italian men's ski team didn't win a medal in the speed events but it also wouldn't have been surprising if they had won one. Same for the women in the gs. Seriously, calling brignone's medal a surprise is just ridiculous. 
Btw, Arndt Peiffer's gold medal is not a surprise to you but Windisch winning any medal is?

She can't participate because she needs some snowboard training

That was so incredibly sad. I hope she'll get over this soon.
 
Anyway, what an exciting race, after the 2nd shooting I was sure France, Norway and Italy are only racing for silver and bronze, but at the end not only one of them beat Germany, all three did. Peiffer probably feels even worse than Fialkova. If Fourcade catches you despite your advantage, that's okay, he's the best biathlon athlete right now and one of the best of all time, but Windisch and an out of shape Svendsen should really only be capable of beating you if they have an absolutely perfect race and both didn't have that. Peiffer just completely threw away his nerves and made the other countries a big present. Sad for germany, considering what a super strong team they have right now. 

Ok, so here the mini-film of the big sport tragedy of our Paulína Fialková and what exactly happened in this first shooting today
 
the pictures are self explanatory but ok, she had a small accident resulting on broken shoot device in her rifle, she didn´t knew that and was just totally devastated why she can not shoot anything...total disaster, she continued alone the whole leg in tears until finally passing the relay to Nastya with huge gap behind all remaining 19 relays around 6 minutes
 
 
 

 

 

 

 
 

I MISSED THE RACE BECAUSE MY ALARM DIDN'T WORK. FUUUUUUUUUUU*K 

I MISSED THE RACE BECAUSE MY ALARM DIDN'T WORK. FUUUUUUUUUUU*K 

Oh well, much less heartbreaking considering she's got Olympic slalom gold and giant slalom gold already. In terms of my heart being broken, Shiffrin missing out on a medal does not even come close to Mölgg for example, not by a long stretch  

Schild's last time split was 2 tenths better than hansdotter's 
edit: that said, of all non Austrians Hansdotter is the perfect winner for me. She crowned an incredible career in which she always stood in the shadow of shiffrin in the best possible way

Honestly, the downhill became quite boring for me after the changed the start list system. There used to be some build up to the best athletes, now it's just: Top 7 gone. Done.

It's enogh germany. You can stop overachieving now. 
 
I feel incredibly sorry for eberhard. Not only did he miss the bronze medal by 0.7 seconds he also had a broken stick in the 2nd lap. 

YEEEEEEEEEEES
I guess I should stop to complain about overachieving Germans now