Alpine Skiing
You do not often see in a single weekend's World Cup downhill ski so many champions and champions make mistakes that no one thought they could commit and leave them at zero in the match of the competition where they went wrong.
Monday 16 December 2013 7 minutes reading time
For example, we had become accustomed to the monstrous performance of Ted Ligety in a giant eight wins and two third places in the last ten Cup races between the poles wide, where there is gold to add to the world in Schladming. Not to mention Marcel Hirscher in slalom he was constantly on the podium ten races and giant had hit the target in fourteen of the last fifteen, the last real mistake he made was at the end of the second round of the giant Adelboden last January because of which he had thrown away an almost certain victory against their Ligety.
It seemed impossible that these two Martians could be wrong, but in Val d'Isere have done after few doors of their favorite races, Ligety Hirscher in slalom and giant slalom. If we take into account that the overall leader Aksel Lund Svindal Cup between the poles is wide finished off due to the breakage of the right ski and Alexis Pinturault has partially failed to stop retreating from home first place in the first run to fourth in giant slalom and that too is missing out a great opportunity to join the fight for the general, the men's World Cup does not have a master, with Svindal, Ligety Hirscher and enclosed within 91 points. So much the better for the show and so far from this point of view, the White Circus male in these early races of the season did not disappoint.
But even more exciting and balanced so far has been the Women's World Cup, in which only 45 points in the standings are enclosing four athletes: the order Lara Gut, Maria Riesch, Tina Weirather and Anna Fenninger, Tina Maze is more , detached but having at its disposal a specialty in which rack up more points, slalom, compared to their opponents that the foregoing excluded Riesch, threatens to fall early in the race especially in the light of the amazing second run of the giant St. Moritz , in which the magazine is the athlete absolute dominator of the last season. But even among women there have been errors on the part of big: Maze is the same output as a beginner in the super-G and giant slalom on Saturday morning after he vented his anger, the proverbial every time he does not win.
Then there's Mikaela Shiffrin who, unable to compete again (maybe) for the overall World Cup will be the balance in the struggle between these great champions along with Lindsey Vonn, who will return in Val-d'Isè King next weekend. Said of Shiffrin: in twelve of the last thirteen races had never done worse than the thirteenth scraping together seven podium finishes including four wins and seemed ready to success in goal but wide in the giant yesterday is over for showing off once all also nell'inesperienza his 18 years as well as the freshness and unconsciousness that usually highlights.
And what about Lara Gut, this year's entry into another dimension with four wins in three different specialties, and blew with a seventh place in the super-G and giant in its output stage of the house, the one where all the & rsquo , and waited for the one where he had revealed in February 2008 before the third place with a drop down and then in December with the first success in their career in the super-G? And Tina Weirather, also in Giant exit 24 hours after the triumph in Super G with a dedication for his birthday to his great mom, Hanni Wenzel?
To conclude, although the phenomena can make mistakes and their mistakes return them to us human beings like all of us. All over the world can be understood only in Italy do you spend your own samples from riches to rags, you see the players, pitchers a week and the next champion, Alberto Tomba and see, to attend an Olympic victory of which is stopped our biggest national-event, the Festival of Sanremo, and then when he went out was promptly slaughtered by newspapers and television. Not to mention when they came second to maybe only 2 cents and the titles of these newspapers and television were "second only Tomb" ...
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