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Downhill v Super G
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Todays Super G seemed to start and end at the same places and follow the same route as the DH. Each one timed run. No gates to turn round in the Super G.

Can anyone quickly define the actual differences between the two, please?
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Nope there are gates. In fact there are still gates if you like in Downhill in that they mark the boundaries of the course and you have to stay between them.
Super G gates are closer together than GS but not as close at DH. SG tends to be turny most of the time and not have long glide-y bits like DH.
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Jerry, SG gates are actually further apart than GS gates.
A Dowhill course has to have a minimum vertical drop of between 800m to 1100m. There are gates which as you say have to be passed throughthey do not actually mark the boundry of the course but are still turning gates.
Super G has a minimum drop of between 400m to 650m. There is a minimum number of 35 gates for men & 32 for women.
They can be on the same slopes as each other but the SG is normally much shorter (30 secs in this case) and much more technical with the number of gates in compared to Downhill. As its name suggests it is a big fast long GS, - Super Giant Slalom!
T-Dub, Don't know which race you were looking at if you didn't see any gates to turn round. What about the ones that the racers crashed through!!
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Plugboy, Well spotted, just testing you Wink
Plus I was concentrating on T-Dub's request to
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the difference, as he probably wants to watch it, not set the course. I imagine we could just have linked him to the FIS site Wink
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