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Ski Racing Twitter Awards for 2010 December 30, 2010 Volume 43 Issue 5 skiracing.com doing on the Alpine World Cup? After a DNF at Val d’Isere, Jon Olsson still aims to pull off the ultimate trick Ted Ligety, Lindsey Vonn Denver aims to do it again! and more — racing in Find out how in the NCAA Preview France, Italy and Switzerland Tech Talk: The secrets behind snow injection Departments 3 Start House: Can 2011 top 2010 for fans? 4 Letters: Reader feedback on safety measures, Greg Needell and Sport Vision Training. 6 Out of the Gate: Is the Munich parallel slalom fair? Plus, U.S. moguls success; the Courchevel slalom; and jumping returns to the USCSA. 7 Marketplace: Check out SR partners. 16. Ted Tac Toe, Three in a Row 10 Waxroom: Merry Christmas, scary Ted Ligety dominates men’s highlights from Val d’Isere, Val Gardena and Alta Badia. BY HANK McKEE Christmas; Kasper’s long cruise; Vonn & Riesch’s awards; and the Ski Racing Twitter awards for 2010. 22. Swiss Hit and Miss Wind and snow cancel a super G in St. Moritz; Tessa 13 Gallery: Images from World Cup alpine Worley wins the giant slalom. BY ERIC WILLIAMS racing, ski cross, jumping and cross country. 24. Vive La Vonn! 37 Nordic: A preview of the Tour de Ski. After her back-to-back wins here, Val d’Isere is looking like Lindsey Vonn’s kind of town. BY ERIC WILLIAMS 40 Where Are They Now? After a long career in speed skiing, Cindy Nelson is Here 2 Help. 27. Olsson Golden? He’s got money, fame and nearly every trick in the bag. 42 Tech Talk: The truth behind Why Jon Olsson is aiming higher. BY ERIC WILLIAMS injected slopes. 29. Four Wheeling: 44 Backshop: A tuning guide for clubs, part 2. NCAA Preview Denver’s won three straight champs, and could do it 48 Masters: Aging race-fully: a physical guide. again; Power Rankings return. BY BRYCE HUBNER 50 Results: NorAm and junior alpine results 53 Finish Line: The lure of live timing. CONTENTS COVER PHOTO: MATTIAS FREDERIKSSON; THIS PAGE: ZOOM STARTHOUSE ‘Tis the season to be jolly and the crowd at Park City’s Center of Excellence could athlete. She had become recognized by folks who never had seen snow or knew EDITORIAL SALES/MARKETING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE not be much happier. Indeed, this past 10 days there were almost too many blackbirds which end of a ski went downhill. We were correct. In naming Lindsey Athlete of the SARAH TUFF NANCY MERRILL SENIOR EDITOR SALES AND MARKETING to fi t into the pie! Year, the Associated Press confi rmed our belief. Vonn is indeed one for the ages and HANK MCKEE COORDINATOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR AMY DOXEY How about Ted Ligety? Three in a row, the red Christmas bib and all. Certainly, it was becomes the fi rst ski athlete, male or female, in the AP’s history to receive the honor. ERIC WILLIAMS CONTRIBUTORS great to win in front of the hometown fans at Beaver Creek and cool to then take Val Olympic champion Hannah Kearney took top honors in China’s inaugural World Cup CLAIRE ABBE ART EMILY COOK ART DIRECTOR d’Isere’s GS. But Alta Badia is one gnarly gem in the crown of men’s giant slalom. Get mogul event. Morgan Arritola scored a breakthrough in a women’s cross country sprint. PETER Q. GRAVES RAND PAUL BRYCE HUBNER PHOTOGRAPHERS that title, and you’re permanently etched in the minds of all European fans. For this The new season is well underway. BILL MCCOLLOM JONATHAN SELKOWITZ season, that glory belongs to Ligety! Not all the news is happening on the snow. Bill Marolt announced a major change in DAVE PESZEK JULIE SHIPMAN Ligety’s next big test, perhaps the most arduous GS of them all, is Adelboden. No Park City when he named Andrew Judelson executive vice president, putting the for- SKI RACING INTERNATIONAL, LLC U.S. skier has found the top step of the podium there since the inaugural race in 1967. mer Time Inc. executive in charge of all revenue activity for USSA. It is a major move CHAIRMAN/CEO GARY BLACK JR. The great Phil Mahre tried — only to see his hopes dashed by the greater Ingemar on the part of Marolt. CONTROLLER Stenmark. Ligety should provide the U.S. its best shot. In this issue, veteran editor Hank McKee talks to a number of sources about snow KRISTIN FARRELL Over the years, this author has expounded on the skills and personality of Lindsey injection — the pros and cons. Eric Williams chats with freeskiing legend Jon Olsson SUBSCRIBER SERVICE: For the fastest Vonn and what she is doing for the sport and for skiing in general. Last season, Ski about his quest to compete in the Sochi 2014 Olympics as an alpine racer. He also service, visit us online at skiracing.com and click on the subscriber Racing pointed out that Vonn had moved beyond simply being known as an alpine updates you on the women’s alpine circuit while McKee follows the Ligety GS charge. services button, or write: Ski Racing, P. O. Box Freelancer Kelley McMillan talks to the legendary speed ski- 65467, Salt Lake City, UT 84165. For back issues Christmastime in Courchevel: and special requests, please call 801-364-4442. er Cindy Nelson while Bryce Hubner’s Power Rankings looks Lindsey Vonn at the bib draw. EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING: P. O. B ox to have the Pioneers four-peat! We will see. Also in this is- 65467, Salt Lake City, UT 84165. Submissions must be accompanied by a self-addressed, sue, John Jacobs, the CEO of Reliable Racing and long time stamped envelope. Ski Racing is not responsible for unsolicited supplier for World Cup necessities (gates, panels, fencing material. among many) sends Ski Racing its fi rst video-accompanied Copyright © 2010 Ski Racing International. All rights reserved. letter. Have a look on page 4. You’ll also fi nd alpine results Ski Racing (ISSN 0037-6213) (USPS 014-521), fi lling several pages of the magazine. a publication of Ski Racing International, LLC, P. O. Box 65467, Salt Lake City, UT 84165, pub- If you haven’t downloaded the Ski Racing app for Android lished monthly in September, October, Novem- ber, December and twice in Jan., Feb., Mar. and and the iPhone, you are missing a good thing. It’s got the April for a total of 12 issues. Annual subscrip- fastest results (short of following Bill McCollom’s fetish of tion $24, Canada remit $47.98 in U.S. funds (includes GST); all other international air mail spending hours in front of the computer screen for live tim- $72.98 in U.S. funds only. Periodicals Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, UT, and additional mail- ing, which you can read about in the Finish Line on page 53). ing offi ces. Canada Post International Publi- cations Mail Agreement #40010538. Return Check out our website as well for more detail and videos. undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Express Messenger International, P.O. Box 25058 London And look for action from Bormio and Semmering during the BRC, Ontario, Canada N6C GA8 holidays. It will be right there. Enjoy the next few days and get ready to ring in 2011. If DIGITIZED BY TEXTERITY, INC., SOUTHBORO, MASS. it’s anything like 2010, ski racing fans are in for a year of good cheers. — G.B. Jr. GEPA GEPA Ski Racing.com DECEMBER 30, 2010 | 3 LETTERS Austria’s Michael Walchhofer heads toward a new break-away gate panel at Beaver Creek on Dec. 4. Safety Check the fi eld up until the actual event on that week. The panels have Enjoyed Hank’s piece on ski racing injuries in the Dec. 16 issue new features never before seen, and most of the course crews of SR. One of the FIS initiatives on ski racing safety not men- at fi rst glance said to me, “these will never stay on — they’ll tioned in the article is the new homologation standards for gate never work” (to which I replied “we’ll see about that”). But by panels on the WC. These new standards require the panels to the end of the GS on Sunday, all of the naysayers approached release (in the case of hooking an arm, head or straddling) with me with high-fi ves on how impressively they actually did work! less than ∏ of the force previously specifi ed, while maintaining However, the most revealing test (and the one that made Guen- their ability to stay on the poles under “normal impact” by the ther Hujara most impressed and pleased) was when bib No. 29 EMBED VIDEO skier. Reliable Racing Supply, along with a handful of European in the SG buried his head directly into one of our new panels gate panel producers, had barely six months between the FIS doing around 100 kilometers per hour and plowed right through Congress in Antalya to the opening races in Europe and North as if it wasn’t even attached to the poles. Not even a fl inch. In American to conceptualize, design, test and ultimately manufac- Guenther’s opinion, had these been “old specifi cation panels,” ture gate panels in time for the 2010-11 season. Change is good, the results for No. 29 could have been catastrophic. Mission ac- and for our company we took this as an opportunity to think out complished! of the box with our design. The new Break-A-Way 2012 WC I’ve attached a video [at right] for your edifi cation.
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