 Poster: A snowHead
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Watching the Lauberhorn made me feel very nostalgic. Loved skiing in Wengen. Visuall imparted Super G successes were mentioned. It would have been good to have seen them in action.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I don't think many beginners snowplough at 60mph though.... 
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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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Ski Sunday, it’s more like Snowboarding Sunday
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| chocksaway wrote: |
| Can't believe Matt Chilton said the Slovenian fella was snowploughing like a beginner |
Did he say snowploughing "like a beginner"?
I heard he him "snowplough" and in full commentary on Eurosport he explained a "power plough", touched on by Mr Bell on Ski Sunday.
Did I miss it?
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| ribblevalleyblue wrote: |
| Ski Sunday, it’s more like Snowboarding Sunday |
Made for a nice change 
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@NickYoung, he did. About 15 mins in. Martin Cater’s run.
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@jonm, OK - missed that then.
FWIW you can ONLY snowplough like a beginner - now I'm in my 50's snowploughs are out of the question - the pain!!!
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| achilles wrote: |
| Watching the Lauberhorn made me feel very nostalgic. Loved skiing in Wengen. Visuall imparted Super G successes were mentioned. It would have been good to have seen them in action. |
We have had rounds of the disabled world cup here many times, seeing the visually impaired showing 'blind faith' in their guide while following a noise is something else. When I bring intermediates down the Super G course they can't believe it is possible for visually impaired people to get down the slope never mind race down it.
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| chrisdavis wrote: |
| I’m really enjoying Graham Bell’s commentary. I just can’t listen to Nick Fellows on Eurosport. |
The only benefit to listening to Nick oh oh oh can you believe it Fellows is that he might just choke himself to death live on air screaming about Shiffrin. You certainly don't listen to him for his pronunciations or any insights relating to the actual race as his tune changes all the time as he cannot remember what his been rabbiting on about previously. I do not know how Ed Drake puts up with the blithering biased idiot. |
Oh he is so painful to listen to, I do put on mute when she wins like tonight, it's great when she is beat  |
She's creating history with the fantastic wins, great that she has found her best skiing again after her Father's tragic accident. We are in an era of really good women skiers, Soffia Goggia, Petra Vlhova and Mikaela try and appreciate
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Short clip of me skiing Ovit Mountain, Turkey at the end of the show
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Thought the coverage of Wengen DH was good, I enjoyed the run by Graham Bell especially and great to see Austria triumph in front of the Swiss crowd, thought their booing was bad and it was great to see them hushed. The rest of the snowboarding slopestyle and halfpipe I find really boring and of zero interest. I'm sure it is great for the yoof watching but I think they ought to re-title the programme, its not a ski programme anymore, there's so much more they could do with this but i'll not go there again! 
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Speaking as a 47yo Yoof, I thoroughly enjoyed the Laax coverage (although Jenny Jones overdub of bits showed her lack of broadcast experience - don't read off the paper; read it, then repeat it!). Nice to hear Bell dust off his old "HIS THIGHS ARE SCREAMING" patter again for Lauberhorn, like you can guarantee him going on about decibels at the Schladming night slalom...
@Mike Pow, assume you'll be wanting your RADA card now.
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
Speaking as a 47yo Yoof, I thoroughly enjoyed the Laax coverage (although Jenny Jones overdub of bits showed her lack of broadcast experience - don't read off the paper; read it, then repeat it!). Nice to hear Bell dust off his old "HIS THIGHS ARE SCREAMING" patter again for Lauberhorn, like you can guarantee him going on about decibels at the Schladming night slalom...
@Mike Pow, assume you'll be wanting your RADA card now. |
I'll settle for my Equity card
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You know it makes sense.
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@Markymark29, wasn't the swiss fans booing because Vincent Kriechmayr was racing even though he had tested positive for covid, and arrived late after he quarantined, but had a dispensation to race somehow, i am pretty sure that is what the commentator said.
Though after the recent issue with djokovic, am not sure that would have been the case.
https://apnews.com/article/sports-europe-switzerland-austria-3b447806c891aeb0c34813b3d2f2e583
@Richard_Sideways, +1 regarding Jenny Jones commentary it nearly sent me to sleep!!!
its a shame as when she conducts interviews, they are generally very good.
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its a shame as when she conducts interviews, they are generally very good.
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This. Normally really good, and she's a good public speaker too - can only think that she was just reading off a script someone had shoved in her hand last minute.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@MorningGory, Nordica have been making skis for some years. Enforcers were one of the popular models in previous seasons
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nice to see Bell in action. We don’t want to see a ski tip shot of him though, just the view coming down at a speed I never would. Enjoyed as a skier half of the boarding, not the half pipe though which I find spectacularly boring. Hope he gets to do the Hannenkahm.
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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 thought that was all stock footage they used of Bell going like the clappers (geddit)
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| chocksaway wrote: |
| Can't believe Matt Chilton said the Slovenian fella was snowploughing like a beginner |
Tbh, looks way more efficient than doing some "check turns". Good on 'im.
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
I thought that was all stock footage they used of Bell going like the clappers (geddit) |
That's what I thought too.
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Tomorrow will be worth tuning in for...
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@mikeycharlton, why, i imagine this week its snow board archery biathlon from morocco...
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@hobbiteater, unlikely
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Bet they only show the downhill action. 
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@mikeycharlton, i dont think the slalom will change anything
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| hobbiteater wrote: |
| @mikeycharlton, i dont think the slalom will change anything |
you're not expecting them to show it?
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Think they'll show Kitz slalom with Dave Ryding Gold. And so appropriate. A century of slalom was celebrated on the slopes at Muerren last Monday, where it was all started by Sir Arnold Lunn. One of the message tributes was from Dave, another from Sir Arnold's great grandson who was there.
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You know it makes sense.
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| colinstone wrote: |
| Think they'll show Kitz slalom with Dave Ryding Gold. And so appropriate. A century of slalom was celebrated on the slopes at Muerren last Monday, where it was all started by Sir Arnold Lunn. One of the message tributes was from Dave, another from Sir Arnold's great grandson who was there. |
It’ll be 15 minutes on the FIS Alpine Slalom race. Then 45 minutes of Freestyle interviews, clips, with maximum use of the terms “bro”, “wicked” and “radical”.
Dave Ryding, the legend!!!
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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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| achilles wrote: |
| Watching the Lauberhorn made me feel very nostalgic. Loved skiing in Wengen. Visuall imparted Super G successes were mentioned. It would have been good to have seen them in action. |
They might show more of the Para worlds this week. There’s been more successes this week. On top of Dave winning in Kitzbuhel, we had a gold in the VI slalom today with Menna Fitzpatrick.
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Poster: A snowHead
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i found out that "rocket ryding" won today whilst buying new skis in ski bartlett this afternoon, i overheard the shop staff and another customer talking about it, and joined in the conversation.
i assumed that it would be announced on the sports news on BBC, Nada, not a thing!!!!
its not as if we win a FIS world cup race on a weekly basis, FFS!!!!!!
plenty of coverage of a brit tennis player being knocked out of the aussie open though 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Front page on the BBC now. Fantastic result!
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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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It was on the main news at 5 & 6o’clock on Radio4
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Tonight’s ski Sunday should be the slalom and downhill. Nothing else, except a Dave interview. Turn next week over to snowboarding by all means, but this week is about Dave!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| twoodwar wrote: |
| Tonight’s ski Sunday should be the slalom and downhill. Nothing else, except a Dave interview. Turn next week over to snowboarding by all means, but this week is about Dave! |
This.
They should rename tonight’s show “DAVE”.
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Doesn't he have a whole channel already?
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Started now.
Excited.
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Don’t tell me they’re leading with the downhill?
Edit. No. Thank god.
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Just watched him. My slight association is that I come from a village about 15 miles from Dave's village, near Preston. Apparently he skied at Pendle (as in Hill) dry slope which I never used but have seen it. Well done Dave!
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@billb, that's why his story is so remarkable
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