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Schedule presently has 3pm - 4pm for ladies GS on Saturday - they don't appear to be showing anything live. Anyone know anything about it, or anywhere else to watch?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The second run of the women's GS looks to be on live as well as both runs of the men's race. This is on International Eurosport not British Eurosport though. The schedule looks to be the same on Das Erste.
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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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Cheers. Is that on television? I was looking at the Player schedule
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@moseyp, I am looking at the TV guide for British Eurosport and you're right, it only has the highlights at 3.00 pm for the ladies as obviously women's sport is not as important as men's  . The men have both runs live on Sunday. I am sick of it! Even if you pay separately for the Player you still get the same British version. You can't choose to have International.
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| maggi wrote: |
| You can't choose to have International. |
You can choose where you point your dish.
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@rjs, no dish. I can't choose where I point my cable.
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Whats the betting on the Ladies? I watched mikaela shiffrin training last week and she was looking awesome
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You can choose where you point your dish.
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no tv! stuck with web - do you know anywhere else I can watch it online?
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I can't even watch it on the internet. Sniff...
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Conditions are class in Solden considering height and time of year!
Got eurosport on subscription and watch on TV through Chromecast (cancelled BT) £6.99 a month and can cancel anytime.
Have to go out soon , but my money is on Liggety
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Watching Sölden atm - first GS race I've seen in a while (I prefer slalom and DH).
MAN the new regs make for some  ugly skiing!!
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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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Yeah wild flat too , did you see the headcam? bottom part of the course is 100% flat
some of slo mo camera stuff is good
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Yup watching as well, an 'interesting' course to say the least! Stupid steep or flat and seemingly not much in between.
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You know it makes sense.
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Well the steward has been the stand out highlight so far 
shows how icy and steep it is , scary!
My sister took a wrong turn onto an icy black and slipped , i was on the lift and seen her do a similar run lol
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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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@clarky999, what are the new regs?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Hannes has done well
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| @clarky999, what are the new regs? |
I guess they're not exactly new anymore, but the larger turn radii skis, and all the skidding (sorry, 'stivoting') they have to do to compensate.
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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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@clarky999, were you at Sölden or watching it on TV? I was right by the third intermediate timer on the first run today and slightly higher up and further away to avoid the drunks and smokers for the second run. Take a look at my Facebook page which will be updated as I process the 1000+ photos I took over the past 2 days
@hawkwind, conditions are the best for 5 or 6 years, I've been coming here for quite a while and am hard put to remember when we had not only 2 sunny race days but also the training days were spectacular! Those "flat" are not as flat as they look and the Wall is a bloody-sight steeper as the course workers slide demonstrate. Even on the "flat" the workers were wearing crampons as were all the helpers between the nets.
I had to listen to the Village Idiot (aka Nick Fellowes) a couple of times as the commentators go around talking to the various TV and radio commentators during the TV breaks. He prattles just as much meaningless rubbish live as he does on the TV I saw him later this afternoon running from the commentary box, probably to the loo as in his haste he almost charged me down as well as a group of kids waiting to get autographs from the skiers as the left the Press Centre.
Now waiting for Eurosport Germany to show the Wallabies vs the Pumas match but they are still broadcasting some tennis match sadly!
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Well, I hope nobody recorded the second run on British Eurosport. EPG said Eurosport 2 (which was also what the first run was on), so that's what my Virgin box recorded. Except it was actually on Eurosport 1. Luckily, I was in at the time so I did get to watch it but I wouldn't have been impressed to come home to watch it later and find f*&^ing snooker.
Is it so difficult to change the EPG when they decide to change the channel?
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@Samerberg Sue,
Great report only slightly jealous , got it on the list to make an event someday
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@Samerberg Sue, was just watching on TV, must've been cool in person!
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@maggi, Eurosports EPG can best be described as aspirational!
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I recently switched from sky to talk talk for tv and and now missing Eurosport 
Looks like getting Eurosport player and chromecast could do the trick from some of the comments above. Looking at the Eurosport however it looks like the app is a pile of cr4p. Does it work ok for you guys. Tend to watch a mixture of live and recorded events throughout the ski season.
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I had to Sky+ the second run of the mens' race and sat down very late last night to enjoy it in the peace and quiet. Very disappointing to find effing snooker had been recorded instead due to the channel switch. Saw the first run however and I'm finding it a bit samey - needs some fresh faces.
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@Pruman, you obviously missed Roli Leitinger who started with Bib Number 39 who made it to the second run at 26th, therefore started 5th in the second run. He then creamed the slope, posting the fastest second run and ended up in a 3-way tie for 6th place with Kristofferson and Neureuter. Not bad for his first ever World Cup start maybe? 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Samerberg Sue, he did brilliantly
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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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| Samerberg Sue wrote: |
| @Pruman, you obviously missed Roli Leitinger...... |
Yeah, I was watching the snooker remember! Is he any good around the green baise? Long pots off the cushion? Good for him though, there will always be the odd new talent here and there. Needs a lot more like him to freshen things up.
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@Pruman, he was clearly one of the best in the first run as well, but Eurosport had already switched off by that time as I saw Nick Fellowes bumbling around trying to look like a coach in his long "coaches" coat as Roli came down the hill in the first time!
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You know it makes sense.
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@boabski,
Yeah working great , well that event did anyways and watched some highlights on Monday too.
Not just as convenient as having it on the box but i needed the fix and only £6 , ill just cancel when season is over.
Be as well hanging on for a couple of weeks , check the schedule here
http://tv.eurosport.co.uk/tvschedule.shtml
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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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Seen the womens and very disappointed Fenneger and Maze are competing against one another.
Watched that final run while on holiday in the Dolomites , right down to the line and had been watching most of the season.
Although i give Lara Gut a chance this year against the Americans.
I dont know much about it all , just a lifelong fan of Ski Sunday and the Olympics but with the availability of Eurosport you gain more knowledge when watching over a season, i just love watching them go insanely fast on ice , i know how i feel when i hit a small patch on a moderate red slope , fearless and probably a bit mental
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Seen the womens and very disappointed Fenneger and Maze are competing against one another.
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hawkwind, which year were you watching?
Anna is seriously injured and therefore out for the whole season. And Maze has taken the year off (partly because she had no choice) to finish her university degree before the regulations change in September 2016. Mind you she was at the Sölden races on Saturday and Sunday looking really fit and healthy as she is training but not competing (just yet). The rest from competition is obviously doing her good.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@hawkwind, thanks. Bought the chromecast the other night so will sign up to the Eurosport player. Can't go a season without it 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Samerberg Sue,
Sorry just saying it wont be the same this year without them 
Perhaps you could shed some light on Anna and her position with the Austrian Ski Team , i understand she spoke out against them but its only on social media and mostly in Austrian.
What little i understand is she wants to have more control over her immediate team and that conflicts with the national team.
I admire her spirit for speaking out but dont want to say too much as i dont know the full story.
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@hawkwind, Anna has (or had, I'm no longer 100% sure) a German manager who organised her PR and sponsorship - he worked out a deal with Mercedes which got up Peter Schröcksnadel's (president of the ÖSV) nose big time as the ÖSV are part sponsored by Audi. However, the deal was that they would use Anna's Cheetah Preservation work as the background and Mercedes would pay money into the charity she has set-up (or supported not sure which). They were only going to use a non-sjkiing photo of Anna, so although it ran close to the bone, it did not contravene the rules. Schröcksi also runs a media management firm handling most of the big stars affairs in Austria - he pulled Marcel into his fold last year (summer of 2014) and Anna was the last (wo)man standing out against him. Schröcksi is a similar character to Blätter and runs a similar closed shop set up. After a lot of back and forth, a compromise was reached and Anna was given more or less the same deal about her own specialist team as Marcel. If nothing, else the general public began to be more aware of the ÖSV and its utter ruthlessness under Schröcksi.
A friend of mine is a former ÖSV national squad speed (DH & Super-G) skier and the sheer disgust at how the athletes are treated as cash cows with little or no regard to their physical or mental health that she has for the set up, especially since Schröcksi took over, has to be heard to be believed. Some of the tales she has told me really shocked me to the core. They are totally ruthless in the pursuit of money for themselves as well as for the federation.
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@Samerberg Sue, thanks for the insider's insight! Why did Maze need to take this year off? It seemed so strange given that at her age she may only carry on for a few more years?
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@lynnecha, Maze needed the time out whether she was aware of it at the time or not. The Slovenian government have introduced new regulations for matriculating from university courses and the period of grace ends at the end of the current academic year. Tina had completed all bar the final semester/courses (not sure exactly how it worked). If she did not finish her course this year, she would have had to start all over again under the new system. The fact that she has been competing continually since the age of 15 in the World Cup AND also maintaining her grades sufficiently to stay on her courses (she did her school leaving exams while travelling on the WC circus), speaks volumes for her ability to focus. Competing as she does in all the disciplines as successfully as she has, and studying intensively in the off-season, must have taken it out of her. She was carrying a virus infection most of last season as well. When I saw her at Sölden last month she was looking fitter and healthier by miles than when I have seen her at the races the past 2 or 3 seasons. An interview she gave at Sölden makes me suspect that she may do one or two races some time this season, but that is only a gut feeling.
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@hawkwind, I would not think any less of Marcel, he is very close to Anna and they often train together. He was able to push Schröcksi far harder because he is male and was able to play "hard ball" with the ÖSV mafia. He still has his own staff and his father is given special coaching/technical status. The patronising attitude to females within the ÖSV hierarchy made it way more difficult for Anna to negotiate before Marcel pushed through his deal. His deal also set the precedent that Anna needed to push for the best one all round for her including her personal physio and other personnel. As they had given Marcel all he demanded, they had to do the same for Anna. I believe (but am not certain) that aspects of Anna business are still handled by Karcher (her German manager), she is too loyal to people that have helped her simply to dump him. The patronising attitude of Schröcksi towards Anna was amply illustrated in his post "tiff" statements and interviews, where he gave the impression of an exasperated father being forced to reprimand a recalcitrant child. He showed her absolutely no respect as Austria's elite female athlete at all. I came close to busting my TV watching his posturing.
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Begs the simple question , when the two most successful athletes in the team and seemingly others have lost confidence in him.
Why and how is he still heading the organisation?
leads back to the general feeling the world over with the most publicised being Blatter.
We shall not , we shall not be moved!
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@Samerberg Sue, thanks for the reply about Tina. I have followed her career over the years and she always seems to be eclipsed by Lindsey Vonn in the personality stakes, but her performance in the season before last was absolutely amazing. So looking forward to the new season as it will be interesting to see how the new talent shines through with so many of the 'big names' out for the season or retired. Thanks for the info - great to get the inside track on some of this stuff.
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