Posted November 22, 2024Nov 22 Winter sports season is upon us! Use this thread to discuss everything going on over the next few months.
November 22, 2024Nov 22 Author Some interesting cases of skiers coming out of retirement with a new nationality this season - multiple world championship winner Marcel Hirscher is back 5 years after his retirement racing for The Netherlands instead of Austria, and Lucas Braathen has switched from Norway... to Brazil! Neither of those are countries particularly renowned for their skiing so it'll be some different flags on the board at least.
January 10Jan 10 Author Albert Popov won a world cup race at Madonna di Campiglio today - the first Bulgarian to win a world cup race in 45 years!
January 11Jan 11 Author I hope so but I've not heard either way yet! Looks like Ski Sunday started last week - they were mostly covering the freestyle skiing there.
January 20Jan 20 Author Mia Brookes looks to be doing brilliantly in freestyle snowboarding! Maybe our next Olympic medal contender?
February 5Feb 5 Author Skiing World Championships start in earnest tomorrow! Looks like it's all on the BBC so looking forward to following that.
February 22Feb 22 Author Raphael Haaser winning the Giant Slalom was quite the surprise - from bib 22 as well! I did have him down as a dark horse after the first run though.
February 26Feb 26 Author Great to see Dave Ryding in the Top 10 on the Men's Slalom and Billy Major in the Top 15! A real shame to see Laurie Taylor straddle right at the start of his second run though, the first run looked so promising.Some pretty crazy levels of DNFs in the slalom overall though - 116 women took part in the first leg of the Slalom and only 45 finished. Surely something can be done to stop the hill being so unforgiving by the end?
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