Lake Louise SuperG Women partial standings
1 Lara Gut Switzerland
2 Tina Weirather Liechtenstein
3 Sofia Goggi Italy
4 Kajsa Kling Sweden

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Lake Louise SuperG Women standings
1 GUT Lara SUI
2 WEIRATHER Tina LIE
3 GOGGIA Sofia ITA
4 KLING Kajsa SWE

Brava Kajsa di nuovo:)

Si, ma brava anche Sofia, al secondo podio in Coppa del Mondo. Male Mikaela Shriffin, ma e' scesa sotto una fitta nvicata e si vedeva poco. Il duello e' fra lei e Lara Gut, in attesa di Lindsey Vonn. Ho visto gare di salto femminile a Lillehammer, con due giapponesi sempre in testa.
Tullio

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Sono tre i podi di Sofia, uno slalom gigante a Killington, una libera e un superG a Lake Louiae. Brava Sofia!
Tullio

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Si, ma brava anche Sofia, al secondo podio in Coppa del Mondo. Male Mikaela Shriffin, ma e' scesa sotto una fitta nvicata e si vedeva poco. Il duello e' fra lei e Lara Gut, in attesa di Lindsey Vonn. Ho visto gare di salto femminile a Lillehammer, con due giapponesi sempre in testa.
Tullio

Credo che Lindsey Vonn ha fame di diventare il più grande sciatore in tutto il mondo.
Ancora più grande di Ingemar Stenmark!

But Ingo never won a Downhill, while his competitor Gustav Thoeni was second to Franz Klammer on the mythical Streif by a few thousands of a second. Maybe he should have been an ex aequo winner. I saw him om Tv. Franz was already on the podium when people just screamed. At half course Gustav had the best time.
Tullio

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But Ingo never won a Downhill, while his competitor Gustav Thoeni was second to Franz Klammer on the mythical Streif by a few thousands of a second. Maybe he should have been an ex aequo winner. I saw him om Tv. Franz was already on the podium when people just screamed. At half course Gustav had the best time.
Tullio

Ingemar Stenmark was the world's best downhill skier - but he was too good.
It took at least Serge Lang, the man who ruled the alpine world with a measure of authority that gave him the nickname "Idi Alpin".
After Stenmark won the overall victory in the World Cup three times the rules were changed so that the Swedish superstar would be forced to run downhill.

He did raced once on the mythical Streif...
He crashed in the End schuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKPukQrwIiw

Thöni vs Stenmark - L'ultima porta - diretta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT2SizK89ew

The last man to win in slalom, giant slalom and downhill was Toni Sailer, 1956 Cortina Olympics. Then the specialties separated and each had its own champions, with he addition of SuperG. Maybe only Tina Maze and Lindsey Vonn followed in Sailer's path.
Tullio

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Today women will race at Sestriere. Go Sofia!
Tullio

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Giant Slalom men Val d'Isere
1 Alexis Pinturault France
2 Marcel Hirscher Austria
3 Henrik Kristoffersen Norway

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Women Giant slalom Sestriere
1 Tessa Worley France
2 Sofia Goggia Italia
3 Lara Gut Switzerland
4 Tina Weirather Liechtenstein
5 Marta Bassino Italy
6 Mikaela Shriffin USA

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There is something with mountains :)
Nobel Laureate in Physics 2016 Professor Michael Kosterlitz.
One of Michael Kosterlitz great passions in life is rock climbing.
He has been doing it for many years, and was one of Britain's best free-climbers, that is climbing without a rope when he was younger.
He made several impressions in the climbing world, and among other things a cliff in Italy was named after him.
It took ten years before anyone else managed to do the same.

Free climbing has two meanings. The first, and oldest, is climbing without a rope, secured only by your hands. This is called "in libera" in Italy, especially in the V al Rosandra climbing ground near Trieste, where I practiced. The more modern meaning is climbing with a rope, secured by pitons, musketeers, nuts and bolts, but without using the traction of the rope to help you to advance. This is used by most so called "free climbers", who are not free climbers at all in the first version. Free climbing of the first kind results in many deaths, like that of my friend Enzo Cozzolino, nicknamed "Grongo" after a fish, who opened the 800 meters dihedral on the Piccolo Mangart di Coritenza in the Alpi Giulie and other Dolomite climbs like Cima Scotoni. Th e Trieste Climbing school is now named after him.
Tullio

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I prefer walking or skiing in the mountains.
Just by seeing people climbing them makes my palms sweaty.
Il Grongo.

http://www.summitpost.org/enzo-cozzolino-grongo/331707

There are also daredevils who climbs buildings.
Mustang!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpS7vhvkIQM

Looks like Marcel Hirscher have some competition:)
WC slalom Val d'Isere
1 KRISTOFFERSEN Henrik 1:44.54
2 HIRSCHER Marcel +0.75
3 KHOROSHILOV Alexander +1.92

Mikaela Shiffrin of course!
Her 11th win in slalom in a row.
WC slalom Sestriere
1 SHIFFRIN Mikaela 1:37.80
2 VELEZ ZUZULOVA Veronika +1.09
3 HOLDENER Wendy +1.21
4 HANSDOTTER Frida +1.29

Thanks for showing me Grongo. He was a much better climber then myself, and died on a fairly easy alone climb in Dolomiti. I forgot to watch the races this afternoon since I was installing a GTX 750 on my Linux box. Of course BOINC 7.6.32 which worked up to this morning did not work after the installation and I had to downgrade BOINC to 7.2.42. When upgrading from SuSE Leap 42.1 to Leap 42.2 a USB cartridge which contained pictures of my sons and their sons was canceled and loaded with a version of the OS, so I can boot from it. But nobody asked me the permission to do such a thing, and I protested with SuSE Italia. But the pictures and films are gone. Ciao
Tullio

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SuperG men at Santa Cristina, Val Gardena, Italy
1 Kjetil Jansrud Norway
2 Alexander Aamodt Kilde Norway
3 Eric Guay Canada

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Another podium for Sofia Goggia in Val d'Isere, third in the Alpine combined after Ilka Stuhec of Slovenia and Michelle Gisin of Switzerland. Sofia is now second in the World Cup Standing after Mikaela Shriffin, with 407 points against 498.

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SuperG men at Santa Cristina, Val Gardena, Italy
1 Kjetil Jansrud Norway
2 Alexander Aamodt Kilde Norway
3 Eric Guay Canada

Norway, Norway...
I guess there will be more Norway tomorrow in the downhill at Val Gardena.
The Norwegian team call themself "The Attacking Vikings" :)

Downhill women at Val d'Isere
1 Ilka Stuhec (a new Tina Maze?) Slovenia
2 Cornelia Huetter Austria
3 Sofia Goggia again in her 6th podium
Lara Gut out
4 italian girls (3,4,5,6)

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