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Well done Didier! I'm glad our little chat in January paid off, give me a shout if you want some more tips 
Great to see Aksel & Bode in the medals too.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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robboj, wasn´t gloating, mate, my OH is Austrian and I enjoy winding him up!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Cracking racing last night. Really enjoyed it and had hoped that Bode Millar would have won... how gutted to miss out on a few tenths of a second! Cracking course and it was very nice to see each run in whole from top to bottom.
on the crowd noise thing, we were talking about this last night and came to the conclusion that they must have turned down the input from the microphoes set up next to the crowd so as we could hear the commentators over the tannoy announcer at the bottom who seemed to be constantly talking. Surely they could've just moved one or two of the microphones around. It was the same with the ski jumping we watched. 
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As a Bode fan, it's great he got a medal but with such an early start number it was hard watching all the other racers challenge after him. Later racers like Cuche seemed to slow considerably near the end of the course without any obvious errors, I wonder was the snow getting softer?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Does anyone how the Super Combined today will work - do they look at the combined time total for the Downhill and the GS or just take best time out of 2?
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franga, They add together the times for the Downhill and the Slalom.
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Great to see Bode in the medals - even our 3 y/o was squealing when she saw he was first! Took some explaning that he hadn't actually won at that point.....
robboj, To be fair to Ed, he's very inexperienced at this level (only 3 or 4 WC races to his name?) and has always said, both on and off the record, that Sochi is his big target - Vancouver is about building experience. He may not prove to be a medal winner (and I sincerely hope he is) but there is a LOT more to come from him. I think you'll find a similar story with Dave Ryding this weekend and next.
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| robboj, wasn´t gloating, mate, my OH is Austrian and I enjoy winding him up! |
If this carries on I think Austria will declare war on the cuckoo clock makers. Walchhofer has even hinted at retirement after last nights performance.
http://sport.orf.at/vancouver2010/100216-257/index.html
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Walchofer obviously didn't take on board the tips I gave him when I found myself next to him in the lift line for the Garbanzo chair last March. 
Great race though. You could have thrown a blanket over the first four racers, and Eric Guay wasn't too far away from bringing home a medal for the hosts. I saw him shred this course at the Canadian champs two years ago - a super smooth ride.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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"Momentan zipft es mich g'scheit an" = at the moment it pisses me off
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Anyone seen any quotes from Cuche on what happened ? Had a look on the official Olympics site but it seems impossible to find anything but a results list.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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rjs, franga, The Super Combi is the times of a seperate Downhill & 1 run Slalom on the same day added together. It should have been today but has been postponed due to heavy snow.
It's a totally separate race and is not just the times of the Downhill & Slalom added together.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thanks DAB!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| skisimon wrote: |
How did he lose that much time...!? He was good out of Coaches' Corner, and lost all the time after the last split...
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I'd guess because the botom of the course was warming fast and therefore slowing.
We saw Bode and Eric Guay out of the start gate down the first pitch. I've skied that run countless times, but never in a way like that!
Not sure why thjey didn't start at 9.30. 10.30 meant that the bottom of the course was bound to deteriorate over time with the temps.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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If anyone is interested, I was there and had a ball !!
Great day, great race although the early racers had an advantage as the course definitely got slower as the day went on and the sun came out.
I did a small write up with a couple of pics on my blog
http://whistlerblackcombsnowreport.com/mens-downhill-2024.htm
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wbsr, thats a great report! Bet that course slipper needed a change of underpants Are you out there for the duration of the games?
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DAB, thanks and I live here
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Jerry,
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He's a big bloke isn't he
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He most certainly is: especially from my five-foot seven perspective!
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