Alpine World Ski Championships 2015 (Vail/Beaver Creek, Colorado, USA) Thread
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Tender Branson
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« on: February 03, 2015, 11:16:34 AM »
Starts today with the 1st competition (Super-G women) at 11am local time (7pm Central Europe, 1pm Eastern US).

For the first time NBC will offer live coverage in the US !

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Some pics from the opening ceremony:
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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2015, 11:19:59 AM »
The US (home advantage and strong team) and Austria (always good on US snow and good team) are expected to dominate, but I wouldn't rule out some surprising wins.
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2015, 11:35:09 AM »
Medal favorites for today's event (Super-G women):

Lindsey Vonn (USA)



http://vailbeavercreek2015.com/racers/lindsey-vonn

Anna Fenninger (Austria)



http://vailbeavercreek2015.com/racers/anna-fenninger

Lara Gut (Switzerland)



http://vailbeavercreek2015.com/racers/lara-gut
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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2015, 11:47:11 AM »
Overall historical medal table by nation (since 1931, ranked by Gold medals):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIS_Alpine_World_Ski_Championships#Medals_by_country
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« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2015, 02:56:45 PM »
First race, first Gold medal for Salzburg (... uhhhhm, Austria) !


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(Too bad another Austrian placed 4th, which is the so called "iron medal". 4th places just don't matter in WCs, but nonetheless a really good performance from Conny Hütter).

2nd place: Tina Maze (Slovenia)
3rd place: Lindsey Vonn (USA)
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« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2015, 08:36:37 AM »
Medal favorites for today's event (Super-G men):

Kjetil Jansrud (Norway)



http://vailbeavercreek2015.com/racers/kjetil-jansrud

Dominik Paris (South Tyrol... uhhhhm, Italy)



http://vailbeavercreek2015.com/racers/dominik-paris

Hannes Reichelt (Austria) and Matthias Mayer (Austria)

   

http://vailbeavercreek2015.com/racers/hannes-reichelt

http://vailbeavercreek2015.com/racers/matthias-mayer
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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2015, 10:19:17 AM »
After 2 races, we already have 2 Gold medals.

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And two 4th places ...
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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2015, 10:28:11 AM »
Today, the women's downhill race takes place.

The medal favorites are basically the same 3 that I posted above for the Super-G, plus Tina Maze (SLO), Viktoria Rebensburg (GER) and Elisabeth Görgl (AUT).

Lindsey Vonn (USA) is of course the heavy favorite for the Gold medal, but our girls will certainly give her a run for the money ... Wink
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« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2015, 03:16:59 PM »
Tina Maze (SLO) wins the downhill today, only 0.02 seconds ahead of Anna Fenninger (AUT) and Lara Gut (SUI):
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« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2015, 12:15:31 PM »
Men's downhill race starts in 45 minutes.

Once again perfect conditions in Beaver Creek: sunny day and icy slope.
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« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2015, 02:59:24 AM »
A really "black day" for Austria yesterday.

The worst performance in a downhill race since, well, ever - which is since the 1930s (when the WCs started).

On the other hand, the Swiss had a perfect day - winning Gold and Bronze and their other 2 racers in the Top-10 too.

Travis Ganong (USA) won the Silver medal.
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« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2015, 05:06:24 AM »
Yesss ! Another Gold medal yesterday by Marcel Hirscher and another 4th place ("Blechvogel" Romed Baumann):



1 - Marcel Hirscher (AUT)
2 - Kjetil Jansrud (NOR)
3 - Ted Ligety (USA)
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« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2015, 02:05:59 PM »
Today, the women's combined (downhill+slalom) takes place.

Tina Maze of course can only beat herself on the way to Gold and the Austrian girls have good chances for a medal too.
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« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2015, 02:27:17 AM »
Quote from: Tender Branson on February 09, 2015, 02:05:59 PM
Today, the women's combined (downhill+slalom) takes place.

Tina Maze of course can only beat herself on the way to Gold and the Austrian girls have good chances for a medal too.

Tina "A-Maze-ing" won Gold and we won Silver and Bronze.

Yesterday, we also won the Gold medal at the Nations Team Event (Parallel Slalom).

Silver = Canada
Bronze = Sweden
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« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2015, 02:55:49 AM »
5th Gold medal already !
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« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2015, 06:20:52 AM »
Men's Giant Slalom today.

Basically a battle between Hirscher (AUT) and Ligety (USA).

Maybe Pinturault (FRA) or Neureuther (GER) will get a medal too.
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« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2015, 07:46:08 AM »
Quote from: Tender Branson on February 13, 2015, 06:20:52 AM
Men's Giant Slalom today.

Basically a battle between Hirscher (AUT) and Ligety (USA).

Maybe Pinturault (FRA) or Neureuther (GER) will get a medal too.

Ligety won Gold, Hirscher Silver and Pinturault Bronze.

Today: Women's Slalom.

Favorites: Shiffrin (USA), Maze (SLO) and Hansdotter (SWE).
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« Reply #17 on: February 16, 2015, 12:40:31 PM »
Quote from: Tender Branson on February 03, 2015, 11:19:59 AM
The US (home advantage and strong team) and Austria (always good on US snow and good team) are expected to dominate, but I wouldn't rule out some surprising wins.

Recap:

With the WCs finished yesterday, the final medal table looks like this ...



4th best WCs for us of all time.
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