 Poster: A snowHead
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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 WE dont (it's the internet, clue's in the name!), but congrats to young Jack anyways, must be great to be making a breakthrough at that age with a potential career on the cards, good luck son, steer clear strong drink and loose women
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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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barry, I'm Royalty.
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Bode Swiller, one man's royalty.... 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Congratulation,,, The alpine race world must be bigger, say to me if I have wrong, Is the name of the most famous english racer, Graham Bell?,, Im not sure,, alot of english skier in the alps,, so one day U have a skier in the top in WC 
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Excellent!
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well done! 
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| barry wrote: |
| Bode Swiller, one man's royalty.... |
erm... is everyone's Royalty?
Anyway, stop it, it is "We" - We started this alpine racing lark, established the rules, named some races, won most of 'em and a jolly wheeze it was too. And it was a Brit that invented t'Internet (or something vital to do with it, I dunno). And most registered users of this site are subjects of HMtQ.
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Bode Swiller, was gonna say was another man's crosshairs target....
Young Jacks great performance aside, inventing racing was about the last thing ye did eh 
Anyways enough, I'm over here takin yer jobs and registering on yer websites so that's enough for me!
Good to see a young un doing well
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Good to see a young un doing well
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which was the point of the post.
Think you need to go check the history of the rules of ski racing. There you go, some free educational activity.
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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.
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I take it all back, just spotted the thread title change
go Jack!!! Your Nation should rightly be proud!
Oops that's another last word
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barry, OK then, this is American-written ski history http://www.skiinghistory.org/historicdates.html and it says:
1921—First modern slalom race, the Alpine Ski Challenge Cup, held at Mürren, Switzerland, on Jan. 6, after rules set down by Arnold Lunn... The following fall, the first systematic exposition, complete with diagrams of two-gate slalom, was published by Lunn in the British Ski Year Book.
Don't know where you're from but it's great to see inferiority complexes and the over-use of smileys alive and well.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Someone please translate.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Bode Swiller, Are you, that bloke, you know, that 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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SMALLZOOKEEPER, big ears? Horsey wife? No.
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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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ah ok, so you're that other bloke?
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Good lad.
(Er, is barry American or something?)
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Boredsurfing, I'm afraid I'm even more confused now. Never mind.
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cold getting colder I'm afraid...been fun today aint it?! 
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| barry wrote: |
| odd getting odder I'm afraid...been a weirdo today aint I?! |
There, fixed it for you.
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| freeheelskier wrote: |
| Congratulation,,, The alpine race world must be bigger, say to me if I have wrong, Is the name of the most famous english racer, Graham Bell?,, Im not sure,, alot of english skier in the alps,, so one day U have a skier in the top in WC |
I would say that Britain's most famous ski racer was Konrad Bartelski. World cup downhill second place, higher than the Bells achieved.
Yes, he was born in Britain of Polish parents.
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Baxter surely?, far more results than KB at WC level, just never matching that single result?
but probably the Indian guy who wrote all the rules 
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| barry wrote: |
| Baxter surely?, far more results than KB at WC level, just never matching that single result? |
I'd go with Baxter too (don't get too excited barry you're still beneath me)
Aside from the "bronze" in 2002, this was a seriously good run of results at WC level:
25-11-2001 Aspen, CO USA FIS World Cup Slalom 15th
11-03-2001 Are SWE FIS World Cup Slalom 4th
18-02-2001 Shigakogen JPN FIS World Cup Slalom 19th
17-02-2001 Shigakogen JPN FIS World Cup Slalom 18th
23-01-2001 Schladming AUT FIS World Cup Slalom 9th
21-01-2001 Kitzbuehel AUT FIS World Cup Slalom 13th
14-01-2001 Wengen SUI FIS World Cup Slalom 7th
19-12-2000 Madonna di Campiglio ITA FIS World Cup Slalom 8th
11-12-2000 Sestriere ITA FIS World Cup Slalom 13th
19-11-2000 Park City, UT USA FIS World Cup Slalom 21th
Especially Wengen, Kitzbuhel, Schladming.
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| I'd go with Baxter too |
I must be wrong then, Eddie Edwards it is
Think Baxter had rather more big name competition in his era too arguably?? (think he's trying to make Olympic level on the track bike these days)
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You know it makes sense.
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I must be wrong then, Eddie Edwards it is
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Eddie the eagle,, the biggest plump ever,, but it was fun to watch
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| think he's trying to make Olympic level on the track bike these days |
He missed out on a Commonwealth Games place by a whisker (0.07 sec). I think that was it, all over for the track career. He gave it a really good shot.
Martin Bell also had a really good run of WC, World Champs and Olympic results. Can't find all the data right now but he might be lurking and can fill us in. Overall I think our most successful DHer.
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Poster: A snowHead
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yours Bode Swiller, yours!
Baxter did interski this year didnt he, saw some team pics on FB, looked a laugh and a bit of a reunion for some of the racers. Reckon his bro could still make it pretty big, having a pretty good one this year
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Martin Bell had some great results. We're a long way off the top ten results he achieved but fingers crossed for the youngsters.
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And mobskaardal, thank you very much.
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How i miss sitting in the lounge shouting at the TV on a Sunday, cheering on the Bell boy's in their distinctive Drambuie race suits. Great days...It's never really been the same since. It was watching those lads that got me into skiing. 
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Me too Spud. I'd just come back from school ski trip to bormio and started watching ski Sunday with my dad, even though he knew nothing about it. At the time I assumed that British skiers getting half decent results was the norm! How wrong I was. It seemed a long wait to Alain Baxter.
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He was english,, I remember now,, he was also in a crash, I think it was in Megeve 