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I've just been invited to a press event tomorrow when British Ski and Snowboard will be
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| 'announcing the name of a World Cup-winning Olympic athlete who has just confirmed their return to race for their country of birth' |
Do any Snowheads have any thoughts (or inside info) on who this might be? I thought maybe Fanny Smith (CH skier X, British parents), but she wasn't born in the UK. I also looked up Tessa Worley (FR, alpine ski), but born in France. Maybe an Aussie or a Kiwi, but who has already won a World Cup event??
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Daniel Yule has Scottish parents so is probably eligible although he was born in Switzerland I think.
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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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I would guess this one.
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Looks like it... @rjs
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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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Strictly speaking it's not returned is it? She has been in France and the French system since the age of 4. Presumably part of our Olympic medal programme is to throw cash at these sort of athletes to claim them. Even so reading between the liens of Le Dauphine article is sounds like she has fallen out with France since her coach left.
Not sure it's a great way to go about climbing the medal table* although it obviously worked with Izzy Atkin as well.
* Not entirely sure what our medal strategy is but if its cash for medals as it seems to be then it ultimately bodes better for non UK athletes with a decent grassroots programme and a plausible UK connection than UK athletes without the same grassroots programme/funding.
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@Dave of the Marmottes, I wonder if it's a case of the British system trying to promote a side of the sport we're not so well recognised in? They must have a decent wave of freestylers coming through so trying to get kids interested in other disciplines by virtue of getting success in them?
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| SnoodlesMcFlude wrote: |
| @Dave of the Marmottes, I wonder if it's a case of the British system trying to promote a side of the sport we're not so well recognised in? They must have a decent wave of freestylers coming through so trying to get kids interested in other disciplines by virtue of getting success in them? |
I would have guessed the opposite. BSS has lots of funding for freestyle, France maybe concentrating on Alpine skiing.
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| SnoodlesMcFlude wrote: |
| @Dave of the Marmottes, I wonder if it's a case of the British system trying to promote a side of the sport we're not so well recognised in? They must have a decent wave of freestylers coming through so trying to get kids interested in other disciplines by virtue of getting success in them? |
How many boarder/skier X courses do we have in the UK? While fridges and dryslopes can at least put up kickers and rails they can't really accomodate anything like X facilities. So there isn't really a grassroots to incubate - anyone practising those sports will be out in the alps anyway and likely as not a converted racer. Feels like a "let's buy a medal chance" strategy to me by BSS.
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There is actually an indoor SBX scene, and "start sections" are something that's relatively easy to build and train on a small scale, but for sure, there isn't really anyway to train full-scale SBX (certainly not world cup or even Europa cup scale) in the UK, even outdoors in Scotland.
FIS-level racing is very doable in Scotland and it would be very cool to see. I did some FIS races in Czech and really liked the courses that they built with limited snow/vertical. Fun, tight and technical - unlike, e.g. the French nationals I raced which was pretty much wide-open with the gap jumps of doom.
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Thanks for that link. Evidently the French aren't happy about it, but if I understand that right, she's not happy with her coach being moved on?
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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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a brexit positve 'o)
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You know it makes sense.
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