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| Hirscher seems to competitve tho, be interesting to see how many races he does. |
He wasn't very competitive on Sunday morning. |
No, looked distinctly uncomfortable. maybe he should stick to GS. |
In Felix Neureuther's opinion, the slalom skis Hirscher was on weren't up do the job - not good advertising/publicity for Van Deer.
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Watching videos of Hirscher skiing when he was retired, I felt that he looked like he had lost the leg strength needed to ski the way he was trying to do. I only saw an edited video of his run at Levi which didn't include the main pitch.
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Thanks @stanton, She is amazing.
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Inspiring. What a great representative of skiing Lindsey Vonn is. Brava and bonne courage!
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Silver in the Sun Valley Super G!
Oldest women to ever get on a podium. She's not done yet!
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@Je suis un Skieur, pretty impressive wasn't it. I'd love for her to get one more win.
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What a year so far for LV!
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@TheMikeSki,
she was seriously impressive today, at the age of 41 and after being retired for a few years, i wonder how much of a difference a shortened course mattered today?
though i feel sorry for Kajsa Vickhoff Lie (i follow her youtube channel), as i thought it was hers when LV's timings were in the red initially.
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@terrygasson, I think she said that she knew she'd struggle a bit on the glide section near the top, so maybe with the full course she could have carried more speed though it?
No matter though, she bloody impressive for sure.
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You could see she made time up in the turns compared to the others in the 3rd sector.
She seemed to just have her skis more parallel and working better with little to no slough of them.
Whatever, what she is doing is incredible.
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After her crash today, I was just looking back at the posts from 2024 in this thread. Has anyone changed their minds about whether LV perhaps knew best/was not actually bonkers and/or changed their assumptions about what motivated her to come out of retirement?
It would be a tragedy if an injury sustained on an unsafe course kept her out of the Olympics. (I'm no expert, but "You can't see and it's bumpy everywhere" [Romane Miradoli] sounds unsafe for a Super-G to me).
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You know it makes sense.
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@tsgsh, it was a Downhill so even worse
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Absolutely gutted for her. It's her "good" knee that she was clutching, not the one that was partially replaced in 2024. Can't see her coming back from that in time for the Olympics, or perhaps, at all. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Let's hope the Olympics are still on the cards for her. It would be a tragic turn of events if she does not make it.
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I've just seen she was helicoptered off after skiing down to the finish.
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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| @tsgsh, it was a Downhill so even worse |
Yes, sorry, don't know what made me type Super-G.
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@Je suis un Skieur,
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It's her "good" knee that she was clutching, not the one that was partially replaced in 2024.
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Was wondering about that.
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This is such a shame, she has doen so well, a proper star.
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I don't think there's any question that she's slightly nuts but in a very admirable "I don't care what you think" way. I love it. If you ever see any of her in depth interviews she comes across as totally sane and just living her best life as long as she can.
I would dearly love to see her pick up the downhill crown again and another Olympic gold would have been (I don't use this word lightly) legendary. I hope she can at least finish the season even if she can't make Cortina.
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"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.
I sincerely hope she's ok for Cortina, and the rest of the season.
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| gixxerniknik wrote: |
| I sincerely hope she's ok for Cortina, and the rest of the season. |
Me too, we need a prayer emoji on this site! 
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Hasn't she had 8 races and 7 podiums this season already, with a couple of wins?
A lot of skiers would be delighted with that over a career!
Genuinely hopes she makes it to Cortina in good shape.
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No person has ever reduced me to a tongue tied blubbering mess. LV may have the potential should I ever be in close enough proximity. 
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Doesn't sound good, but she sounds like the doctors have given her an outside chance.
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@TheMikeSki,
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A lot of skiers would be delighted with that over a career!
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A lot of skiers aren't LV.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Mollerski wrote: |
| No person has ever reduced me to a tongue tied blubbering mess. LV may have the potential should I ever be in close enough proximity. |
Spoke to her at a company organised thing a few years back. She seemed much more normal than some of the comments on here about her would suggest. Jon Rahm was also there, I’ve no interest in golf but he was a really great bloke.
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@musher, Well done for keeping it together. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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She did look pretty good for her age 
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@Mollerski, @musher, shhh, this sounds suspiciously like sexual objectification and this can be a highly controversial topic on snowHeads. I've learned to steer well clear of either praising or criticising any woman about how they look. 
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@KSH,
Being a bloke I tend to find myself being accused of that quite frequently despite my best efforts 
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Speed event skiers have crashes and injury is a when not if. If Olympics were the main purpose of her comeback you have to question the decision making behind starting on a difficult/ dubious course so close to the main event.
Nevertheless I suspect if it is at all possible she'll drag herself to the Olympic start. Where's she going to get her social media capital for how brave and heroic she is otherwise?
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@Dave of the Marmottes,
Vonbot mk 3 with advanced AI PR interface?
If there’s any chance she thinks she can remain upright for at least one run then she’ll be there.
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
Nevertheless I suspect if it is at all possible she'll drag herself to the Olympic start. Where's she going to get her social media capital for how brave and heroic she is otherwise? |
Like she'll be bothered about that right now.
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| If Olympics were the main purpose of her comeback you have to question the decision making behind starting on a difficult/ dubious course so close to the main event. |
Whereas "bottling it" would have been great preparation for the Olympics? She might have said, "glad I didn't do that, I might have got hurt" after they cancelled it, presumably still after 3 crashes.
That sounds like what Dave Brailsford didn't call "the accumulation of marginal losses".
No-one on Snowheads has an insight into how an athlete at LV's level approaches risk.
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Like she'll be bothered about that right now
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probably for the first time, I find myself agreeing with you! 
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No-one on Snowheads has an insight into how an athlete at LV's level approaches risk.
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not sure I agree with this though, but I would say we probably don't appreciate the level of determination and commitment unless you've tried to succeed at any sport.
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| Nevertheless I suspect if it is at all possible she'll drag herself to the Olympic start. Where's she going to get her social media capital for how brave and heroic she is otherwise? |
What a ludicrously prejudiced comment. She's currently leading the 2026 downhill standings by the skiing equivalent of a country mile and you think she's only doing that for social media?
She's the greatest downhill skier of all time, male or female, and still producing the goods at the age of 41.
You're the one who's trying to gain social media capital by posting antagonistic crap, not her.
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| Je suis un Skieur wrote: |
| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| Nevertheless I suspect if it is at all possible she'll drag herself to the Olympic start. Where's she going to get her social media capital for how brave and heroic she is otherwise? |
What a ludicrously prejudiced comment. She's currently leading the 2026 downhill standings by the skiing equivalent of a country mile and you think she's only doing that for social media?
She's the greatest downhill skier of all time, male or female, and still producing the goods at the age of 41.
You're the one who's trying to gain social media capital by posting antagonistic crap, not her. |
Nah she's doing it because she couldn't find anything else to replace the competitive skiing shaped hole in her life. And she's done exceptionally well at the comeback even though the risk level was extremely high. But she always has been known as a drama queen - see the sniping about the team competition at last season's world champs. So fit or not you'd expect her to be all over the Olympics, helped of course by a US media machine that probably doesn't recognise that skiers like Johnson or Moltzan exist.
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