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The World Cup circus has arrived in Wengen, Switzerland, for a 'new improved' Lauberhorn event this weekend. Friday will see a 'super combination' race (short downhill and slalom in one day), followed by the classic on Saturday - the showcase downhill.
This report by Mark Ledsom for Reuters.
Photo: Will Bode Miller win his first Lauberhorn?...
Further previews, coverage and results on www.skiracing.com .
If you want to follow results on a live ticker, the Atomic website runs one.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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BTW, it's not easy to track down when and where the Lauberhorn is being transmitted on TV, live or recorded. I've a feeling Channel 4 don't have rights, and the BBC Ski Sunday page is no help. Any pointers welcome!
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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's on Eurosport 1 & 2 at various times all weekend split between the two channels.
Ladies world cup from Cortina d'Ampezzo too... again at various times during the weekend.
See Eurosport for details
Looks like it's the couch for me this weekend 
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So, is it the case that neither Channel 4 nor the Beeb are broadcasting this great downhill?
It would be very interesting to have the inside story on this, unless (hopefully) I've got the story wrong, because it may suggest that the price was pitched too high for the 'terrestrial' broadcasters. It gets a bit crazy if internationally-important sport isn't available to all to see and enjoy.
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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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Great photo in our local paper of the portable toilets for the race  We're obviously getting a bit silly here now our local guy's not in the running.
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From Digiguide,
SPORT: Skiing World Cup
Channel: Channel 4 04
Date: Tuesday 18th January 2005
Time: 02:10 to 04:00 (starting in 4 days)
Duration: 1 hour and 50 minutes.
VideoPlus: 840147
Coverage of the Alpine World Cup season. Nick Fellows is joined by Konrad Bartelski in Wengen, Switzerland, for one of the biggest men's downhill and slalom races of the season. Includes coverage of all four speed races from Cortina, Italy, featuring Chemmy Allcott, Britain's top female skier.
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2 in the morning 2 days late ! what the heck is wrong with these blasted people, BBC can only show Austrian races where ORF have the right to sell them and channel 4 which supposedly bid about the same as the beeb for the FIS rights, but promissed more coverage are putting it on at 2 in the morning.
No wonder nobody watches skiing on TV nobody remembers to put it into their VCR, added to that they are going to cover 6 or is it 8 races (with the new combined special race at Wengen ) if it's anything like their other shows it will comprise 45 mins of N. Fellows face, 30 mins of spectators faces with close ups of judges, pisteurs etc and the rest will be the races 
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Update supposedly there will also be this
16/01/05 @ 07.30 Wengen/Cortina
picked off the hot house website for ch4
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One problem is that Chanel No. 4 (beautifully fragrant, but not quite on the ball) don't tell snowHeads their ski schedule. They're welcome to pop in here every week and tell us what's coming up!
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16th shows as
SPORT: Skiing World Cup
Channel: Channel 4 04
Date: Sunday 16th January 2005
Time: 08:00 to 09:00 (starting in 2 days)
Duration: 1 hour.
VideoPlus: 56055
Coverage of the Alpine World Cup season. Nick Fellows is joined by Konrad Bartelski in Wengen, Switzerland, for one of the biggest men's downhill races of the season with Britain's Finlay Mickel hoping to build on his promising performances in Bormio and Val Gardena.
Which could mean coverage or just a pre-match type report
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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so it may be at 7.30am sunday or 8am and it may or may not cover the Lauberhorn. 
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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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Here's the weekend's Channel 4 schedule, which I think is revised, just posted on the ifyouski.com site.
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David Goldsmith, there's a lot of AM's in there
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You know it makes sense.
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The trial combined event outcome in this article from the Independent and seems to be judged a success
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Norwegian veteran Lasse Kjus, who won the traditional combined here in 1999, ...... a combined specialist who has won gold in the event at both the world championships and Olympics, praised the combined's revamped format.
The new event is composed of a downhill run and a slalom leg staged only a few hours apart on the same day. The traditional combined event added the times from the weekend's downhill to those of the weekend's slalom, as will be the case in Kitzbuehel next week.
"This new super-combi format is the only way to go," said Kjus, who arrived in the finish area to the sound of thousands of fans singing "Happy Birthday" in honor of his 34th. "I think it makes things more fair. Only one leg for the slalom skiers because it is so difficult for downhillers to make two good slalom runs. And a shorter downhill that makes it possible for the slalom skiers to complete OK."
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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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And the results of the down hill race are :
1. WALCHHOFER M. (AUT) 2:27.05
2. GRUBER C. (AUT) 2:27.14
3. MILLER Bode (USA) 2:27.23
4. MAIER Hermann (AUT) 2:27.67
5. FRANZ Werner (AUT) 2:27.77
Finlay Mickel GBR came in at 18th in 2:29.18
The first Swiss skier only made it in to 16th place which shows how well Finlay did
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Poster: A snowHead
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Great action on Channel 4 this morning. And I wonder how much quicker Finlay may have been had he not caught so much air on that huge jump. How he got that back together is anyone's business - I thought he was a gonner for sure! Superb result.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Mark Hunter, Even though I knew he got down safely when I saw that jump this morning I really wondered how he'd managed to do so 
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