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As part of the 5850 Fest at the World Cup Finals in Sun Valley, I talked with Ted Ligety about the tricky conditions and the very challenging course here in Sun Valley for the Super G and GS races, and the incredibly demanding business of going fast.
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Unique Course & Unique Challenges (5:32)
Course Sets & Resets (10:54)
Brignone Coming To Win (15:21)
Lara Gut-Behrami (20:17)
Best Super G’s Women’s Run (23:41)
Lindsey Vonn (25:32)
Men’s Super G (29:29)
Ski Tuning (36:22)
GS Races (41:01)
Slalom Races (44:24)
What’s Next for Ted? (45:48)
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One of the challenges with the first run of the women’s GS was that the course set was irregular, such that the athletes couldn’t settle into a rhythm. As Ted pointed out, the nature of the hill itself meant that there could never be totally straightforward and rhythmical set. but the first run seemed to accentuate that underlying variation much more than the second. It also appeared to me that the first run set was ideosyncratic in the sense that it didn’t conform to the athletes’ expectations about how the set would use or interact with the terrain. It reminded me a lot of something that Ante Kostelic might have set back in Janica’s or Ivica’s heydays – he was infamous for “un-ideomatic” sets with strange combinations, leading to lots of DNFs/DQs.
Lara Gut was amazing,. I’ve been following her since her days as the oft-suspended “wild child” of the Swiss speed team, and I think she was underrated for much of that time but is now getting her due. It’s unfortunate for her that her career overlapped with a pair of unprecedentedly dominant female racers (Vonn and then Shiffrin).
Shiffrin’s win also impressed me – She’s had a very difficult season with the “pole impalement” injury, and is historically weakest in softer, springy conditions (Vlhova in particular used to beat her semi-regularly in those conditions). For her to come through with win 101 as she did was inspiring. And of course Vonn is doing previously unimaginable things with a bionic knee (IMO that’s even more impressive than her age).
The “rough vs smooth” edge thing that Ted talks about is a very big deal, though IMO to really understand it you need to be used to working with a Trione or Snowglide. Those tools leave very specific (and different because of their opposite rotational directions) kinds of “tooth” to the edge depending on what stone you use, how fast you move the tool, and how much pressure you apply (with the Trione, though the newest Snowglide also has a tension/pressure adjustment).