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Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:28:19 GMT

Light level not as good as in the training runs. Awesome course, really testing.
Huge distance off the jumps.
No one has really nailed it yet, could be a surprise winner if someone puts in a run of their life.

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:31:15 GMT

No surprises for me bode or svindal all the way

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:34:14 GMT

No way to call this; one of the really technical skiers could cream it but maybe Bode will win it on 1 ski...

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:37:20 GMT

I think course is made for the all or nothing merchants enter miller and svindal

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:44:23 GMT

That slo mo of Clary going wide was fun; no wonder he skidded out - he was off the ground at the apex!

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:49:32 GMT

No medal for Bode.

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:51:59 GMT

All over the place left it all in training

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:52:53 GMT

All over the place all season.

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:58:59 GMT

Not Svindal's day either.

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:01:29 GMT

That's my predictions up the wall is Eddie the eagle skiing

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:43:14 GMT

Not the most exciting Olympic downhill ever and yet again another unpredictable winner going against world cup form

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 15:56:26 GMT

Innerhoffer was awesome

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:07:03 GMT

Does anybody feel the format for the Olympics should be different from the usual. It sometimes feels like it is just another competition and can be won by anybody on the day.

Would it be better to run it over 2 or even 3 runs? Would this approach give a very chance to the more consistent skiers.

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:39:44 GMT

Wanderer wrote:Does anybody feel the format for the Olympics should be different from the usual. It sometimes feels like it is just another competition and can be won by anybody on the day.

Would it be better to run it over 2 or even 3 runs? Would this approach give a very chance to the more consistent skiers.

The Olympic downhill is different, it's far more challenging than a standard World Cup run. Gold goes to the skier who gets it right on the day. Go big or go home.

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 18:10:42 GMT

Don't agree Andy are you saying the Olympic downhill is more challenging than Bormio's stelvio, wengen's lauborhorn or the scariest of em all at Kitz. That's why Austria's Hannes Richelt placed more importance on winning Kitz downhill before surgery over going to sochi. So, sorry mate but I'm with the wanderer on this one.

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 19:37:14 GMT

I'm going on what Graham Bell was saying about the course when he did his camera run, he says this ranks right up there with the toughest ever downhills.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/26098629

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:40:03 GMT

andyhull wrote:I'm going on what Graham Bell was saying about the course when he did his camera run, he says this ranks right up there with the toughest ever downhills.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/26098629

Not one for the snow plough methinks.

Re:Olympic Men's Downhill

Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:44:10 GMT

When I saw the course, I thought there was a good chance of an upset. As Admin identified, it is a very technical course ~ Olympic courses often are. Hence you quite often get Leonard Stock kind of results. The turns were very tight, and on thejumps, if the pre-jump wasn't quite right, the skiers took a lot of air.

Also, consider that the form skiers, have trained for many years on the Hahnenkamm, Lauberhorn etc. (I will be on the Lauberhorn in a couple of weeks!) Klammer had skied the Hahnenkamm, or sections of it, hundreds of times.

Switching to a newly cut course is a somewhat of a leveller.

In the event, it was just as well that a good early lead was built up by Mayer, since it ended up quite close.