 Poster: A snowHead
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Germany's premier ski resort, in Bavaria (which sits beneath the country's highest mountain, the Zugspitze) - is the arena for the World Cup downhill on Saturday 28 January ... and the other big races of the weekend.
Here's a description of the event from the resort's website: Garmisch-Partenkirchen.de
Report on the first training run, Thursday 26 January: SkiRacing.com
The final training run on Friday stirred up further controversy over the start number selection rule: SkiRacing.com
Results from the FIS, as they come in:
http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=AL&raceid=36918
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Fri 27-01-06 16:30; edited 1 time in total
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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 Bode, he's trying to get fit and recover some form for Turin. First WC event he'll have missed in ... four years? Pretty amazing run, some kind of record, not missing a race in all four disciplines + combined over that length of time.
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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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Another one of the classic Downhills. It will favour the Austrians and the American D. Rahlves. It would be nice to see your boy Finlay up on the steps and Ghedina too. Bode's in rehab?
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The Garmisch downhill is done and dusted. This report on the day's results and upsets from SkiRacing.com.
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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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Interesting to watch the difference between Hermann Maier and just about everyone else on this course. The rest were fighting all the way, legs and skis jumping all over the place, battling to stay on the track. Some notables didn't make it. Maier just seems to sail down there smooth as you like it. Just how the hell does he do that?
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Many racers went for it, hit a hard rut and then backed off. Gruber's lost ski manouver was hairy, 100 kmh riding an inside ski keeping himself away from the crash barrier.  As Mike said skis were flapping and shaking, even the technical master Benni Raich had problems and ditched out rather than risk injury. Walchhofer, Strobl and Rahlves had the potential to get on the podium but all struggled too.
Maier had fantastic composure until he finished the race and then you could see he was cleary knackered. Maier had given it his all and deserved the win. Aamodt like Maier showed there's life in the old dogs yet. Bode's replacement (the young Steven NYMAN) did well as did the up and the coming Austrians, Andeas BUDER and Kluas KROELL. Good to see a mix of old and new filling the first few places.
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Mike Lawrie, I wonder if it's ski weighting. In the slo-mo for a lot of skiers you could see the inside ski tracking reasonably smoothly even in the cruddy sections but the outer was being smacked all over the place. Maier just seemed planted. He's a heavy guy so maybe it's easier for him to spread the load through both skis without losing an inside edge but it was a marked difference in stability, he looked like he was on a Sunday afternoon cruise at some points on the course.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Interesting to see on Channel 4 coverage at the start of the programme some archive footage from the 1936 Olympics at Garmisch. Piste preparation was a bit different in those days - i.e there wasn't any! 
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No, but Adolf Hitler proved to be adept at other forms of piste (autobahn) preparation!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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David Goldsmith,(In my Basil Fawlty mode:) Don't mention the war! 
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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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According to Ski Racing magazine Hermann Maier is now "the second best male skier in World Cup history". The Garmisch downhill yesterday marked his 53rd win, which takes him ahead of Alberto Tomba's record and second to the phenomenal Swedish racer Ingemar Stenmark - who achieved no fewer than 86 World Cup wins over his career.
Here is the Ski Racing report.
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One crash, dunno who, he ski bounced so wildly on the ruts that it just came out of the bindings. He did a fantastic job not hurting himself, even skiing on his boot sole at one stagebefore eventually faling over.
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You know it makes sense.
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Frosty the Snowman, Christoph Gruber - sheer power kept him away from the netting... he couldn't ski a couple of kms on one ski like BM though!
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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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Since it is no longer a secret, well done to The Herminator. I think that's his first downhill win since his comeback. Bev once met the ambulanceman who picked him up after the m/c accident and he told Bev Herman would never ski again. 
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