 Poster: A snowHead
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Just in from the pub (seriously) and played back last night's women's World Cup slalom from Zagreb, Croatia.
Janica Kostelic was 8th after the first run, seemingly out of contention in front of her noisy home crowd. She pushed hard out of the start gate and (wait for it)...... immediately lost both her right glove and ski pole! Surely, I thought, even with this much ale inside me, she can't make it down 54 gates of a sheet ice slalom course. No glove, spring loaded poles, no pole plant on one side, crikey. Commentator, John Clark, got a little excited as she proceded to blitz down the course and beat the previous skier by over a second. Phenominal stuff. She was in obvious pain at the bottom as her bare cold hand had taken a beating and she rushed off for attention. The crowd, needless to say, were going mad. Skiers 7,6,5,4 and 3 all tried hard to get inside the time but couldn't (despite some really good performances) and only the two Austrians that had led the first run managed to pip her into 3rd place.
Apart from what I was attempting in the bar tonight  , this has to be the greatest against-all-odds performance I've ever seen.
Anyone else see it?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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No didn't see it but Stenmark's second run charges are pretty legendary...before my time but i'm sure some of the guys on this board will be able to tell you about it. Think he used to some from say, 12th to go on and win races.
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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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not quite the same, but didn't Perman (sp) Zurbriggen win an Olympic or World Championships medal skiing with one pole ? Maybe not quite so difficult, but still pretty impressive. It would have been a while ago, so maybe the old memory is letting me down here.
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Jake, remember the Stenmark charge very well. I believe he still holds the record for the biggest winning margin... nearly 4 seconds! Anyway, I didn't see last night either but was told about it today by someone getting very excited about it - punching slalom poles bare handed at full tilt! Ouch. Hopefully good old C4 will show it.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I saw it. Very impressive. Demonstrated real commitment. Truly above and beyond stuff. Had to be, as it was in front of her home crowd. Certainly proved you don't need poles to do gates well. Bet she missed the guard and glove though 
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