World Cup 2019/20 Season WOMEN

[karlo]

Huh? What happened to Schmidhofer? I was waiting for her to run and she didn’t

 

[Moose32]

65

 

[James]

Wow! She now going to be a speed skier?
Was going to pick Brignone for second, but picking her again seemed too much . She’s on fire.
Current standings:

 

[QueueCT]

Was it a hard course today or did it simply favor the technical skiers? Shocked by the number of women who took bad lines, got bounced off the course or just put on the brakes (stivoted) in the technical section.

 

[Wolfski]

MS sure made it look easy

 

[James]

Huh? What happened to Schmidhofer? I was waiting for her to run and she didn’t

She’s listed as DNS- did not start. No idea why.

Mikaela:
“It’s a technical hill, for sure the most technical track on the speed circuit, so I was looking forward to coming here because that maybe suits me a little bit better than some of the other typical speed tracks,” Shiffrin said. “I find that really interesting to learn a new track. It’s like a puzzle or something, It was pretty exciting to put everything together today.”
Video too-

Mikaela Shiffrin grabs 65th World Cup win with downhill victory

Mikaela Shiffrin moved two wins shy of fourth place on the career list with a downhill victory.

olympics.nbcsports.com

 

[DocGKR]

Very Impressive!

 

[James]

Bansko

www.banskoworldcup.com/races/slopes
www.banskoski.com/en/map

 

[4ster]

Was it a hard course today or did it simply favor the technical skiers

It certainly favored the techies but skiing is a technical sport & it sure wasn’t easy. If you watched Haehlen’s run it looked really hard& scary, Shiffrin not so much. There was still plenty of DH speed & excitement on this course, we could probably ask all those that DNF‘d .
The television coverage did not show the runs of Bassino & Vlhova but they both snuck right in there for top 10 spots.
Gotta admit I’ve seen SG courses with more straightaways then this one.

i’ve got to go with the tech skiers tomorrow. Shiffrin, Bassino , Brignone in no particular order.

Should be a really fun SG On Sunday!

 

[Viking9]

If I hadn’t known I would have said SG for sure.

 

[BrianB]

Schmidhofer reported in Austrian press to be struggling with flu was the reason for dns, still in start list for Saturday but we’ll see. After today’s crash Goggia out for Saturday at least. Fun race to watch.

 

[Swede]

 

[James]

Mama Mia!

Hey Breezy Johnson was fifth. 12/100 behind Mikaela.

http://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2020/AL/5086/2020AL5086RLR0.pdf

 

[DocGKR]

Wow--the Italian women's team is on fire this year! Also nice to see another US woman do well.

 

[Tricia]

If you didn't see Curtoni's winning run, you need to! 28th to 1st!!!


These women are rock stars in my book. I am in awe of how they keep it together when the course is rough. Watching the slo-mo, showing how the skis bounce around and flex, and also knowing how stiff these skis really are... Wow, just wow!!

 

[Pete in Idaho]

Nice to see Breezy get into the points 10th and 5th pretty nice skiing. JH will be happy.

 

[DocGKR]

Curtoni DH run:

 

[karlo]

Curtoni DH run:

Precious images from that video

But, nothing compared to the roar of the crowd.

 

[Tricia]

Something I noted as the announcers were talking about the women while on the race course...
More often than not, the announcer said, "she's coming off an injury"
Dang, that's a lot of injury!

 

[4ster]

Viva Italia!
The more I see Bassino, the more I like what I see!
Gut-Behrami even showed a bit of her old self. Maybe Vieth can find some magic tomorrow.

SG...
Figuring tomorrow’s race will be even turnier, I am going with Shiffrin for the win, Brignone & Bassino