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Crans isn't doing very well at the moment! Famous for all the wrong reasons. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| gixxerniknik wrote: |
@russ_e, which country for the VPN?
OK, I've sussed it, India works. |
Oz and New Zealand work too 
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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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Latest on Vonn is she got out of her ski boots, put a ski suit on and then was airlifted to a hospital for assessment
“She has some pain so it’s better to have some checks, the physio did some checks they seemed OK but there were things he was not 100% sure so it was good to have it checked [at the hospital],” two-time Olympic champion Aksel Lund Svindal, Vonn‘s coach this season, told Reuters
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| russ_e wrote: |
Marte Monsen who also crashed was taken down in the stretcher and had cut her face, chin was covered in blood. Looked gruesome, but from what was reported has escaped with just cuts and bruises.
Stream is available on YouTube if you have a VPN. |
Horrible watch when her helmet went down the slope on its own. The TNT commentary team and others watching from the bottom eg the race leader, were overtly affected.
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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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@russ_e, I'm limited to teh free VPNs which you can't select the country. Neither of the two I have let me use NZ or Aus.
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@gixxerniknik, can you use UAE?
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@motyl, No. Only if I pay.
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| gixxerniknik wrote: |
| @russ_e, I'm limited to teh free VPNs which you can't select the country. Neither of the two I have let me use NZ or Aus. |
On an iPad (not sure if that’s relevant) I use successfully free Proton VPN, which appears to allow selection from any country. Its competitors, some allegedly highly rated such as Nord, either seemed unworkable or were going to cost.
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| Snow&skifan wrote: |
| On an iPad (not sure if that’s relevant) I use successfully free Proton VPN, which appears to allow selection from any country. Its competitors, some allegedly highly rated such as Nord, either seemed unworkable or were going to cost. |
If you only use a VPN for watching skiing and you don't use the same device for anything vaguely important while you do so then you can ignore the following public information post
The primary purpose of an internet VPN is to increase your security. This predicated on you trusting your VPN provider more than the network provider in the location you currently are using the VPN. If that's NordVPN [other paid VPN services are available] when you are on the free and unsecured wifi in an alpine hotel, that may well be the case. If you are at home with your paid ISP and you are using a free VPN service, it might not be.
The old marketing adage that "if you pay for it, you buy the product; if you get it free, you are the product" applies. Therefore, it's wise to ask yourself "how is this provider making money out of a service that they are giving me for free?"
We now return you to your scheduled snow sports viewing.
PS. I don't know anything Proton VPN nor do I have any reason to suspect that they aren't 100% above board.
PPS. No jokes about admin making a fortune out of SH.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Olympic Schedule:
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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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Aleksander Aamodt Kilde has taken stock and decided to end his season early, but is quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger 
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@motyl, He want's your clothes, boots and motorcycle? Bit forward!
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You know it makes sense.
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Telling people to smear cold mud on themselves?
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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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I must be out of touch 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Glad Crans did get their mens race away at least after the debacle the previous day. Would have been a disaster had nothing been run that weekend and not a great "rehersal" for next years world championships there.
I see ICE will not be at the Superbowl but will still be at the Olympics on foreign soil?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I don't have any memory of the mens Crans DH race last year, so I'd assumed it was a new race this year. I obviously just didn't watch last years. Anyway, I really liked the track, quite a lot going on, not extreme like your Kitz, Wengens etc, but I still thought it was a good one to watch.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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i see the mixed doubles curling is on TNT tonight, GB facing Norway.
for some reason the sport mesmerises me, i tend to watch this sport more than any other, since GB women won in 2002, when the winter Olympics is on
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| terrygasson wrote: |
i see the mixed doubles curling is on TNT tonight, GB facing Norway.
for some reason the sport mesmerises me, i tend to watch this sport more than any other, since GB women won in 2002, when the winter Olympics is on |
It's on BBC iPlayer as well if you don't fancy shelling out for TNT.
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@theio, cheers, didn't realise that it was on iplayer, good to know, but i have TNT anyway
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@ster, I suspect it was deliberate to prevent the competition from replicating it, with a fall back plan to just use the previous one. The headline of "Team GB’s best chance of Winter Olympics gold dealt major blow after helmets ban" seems overblown: "minor blow" might be more realistic.
Let's see how the CAS appeal goes.
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@ster, the people ICE wants to kill I mean is concerned about can't afford to attend the Super Bowl. As for them being at the Olympics, the reasons they cite are (my translation): blah blah blah. (You can pay me later )
Here's hoping for fair weather and snow in Cortina & Bormio. The latter may provide some action; it's a brute and there will be some skiers that will be over their heads. My money's on Dom Paris but RCS looks like a good dark horse.
I sure hope CBC (Canadian TV) has Brian Stemmle doing the ski stuff, he's a breath of fresh air.
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Word on the ground is that the big air jump and the slopestyle jumps have had to be reduced in size for safety issues. Ed Leigh reportedly describing the big air as now Medium air. So the bigger number spins will be out, and technical precision in.
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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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Injecting parafin into your todger!! Good grief!
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You know it makes sense.
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Paraffin is also a pretty powerful laxative, and a slow shutter speed is probably not what you want sitting on the plank at the top of a 140+m ski jump thinking about.
Was quite amused to hear that Tim Warwood, Ed Leigh and Jenny Jones are holed up in a self-catering apartment in Milano Cortina while other reporting crews are in hotels, mainly so they can save on the budget.
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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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Mark McMorris is out of the Big Air competition after a heavy crash in training yesterday, although he is hoping to be ok for the slopestyle on the 14th.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I no longer subscribe to Discovery but do have NordVPN. Does anyone know if it's possible for me to watch the Alpine ski racing events somehow?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| motyl wrote: |
| Does anyone know if it's possible for me to watch the Alpine ski racing events somehow? |
Are they not on the BBC?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I can't see anything in the iplayer schedule. Perhaps I'm missing something 
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Loved the BBC2 intro just then with Zlatan.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Well Mariah Carey is a thing...
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| motyl wrote: |
| I can't see anything in the iplayer schedule. Perhaps I'm missing something |
Radio times has a downloadable TV schedule - says Mens Downhill tomorrow will be on BBC1. And womens on BBC2 on Sunday, both 10.30am.
https://www.radiotimes.com/winter-olympics-2026-tv-guide/
Ignore the pop up about registering an account, and click on the main image for the detailed pdf.
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Thanks all, yes I've seen the schedule of events, I just don't see it in the TV schedules at those times. I'll just have to see what happens tomorrow morning. I suspect I might be vpn-hopping around some countries
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@motyl,
dial in to NZ, that should work
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