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Imagination. It's a powerful force. Looking beyond what is towards what

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could be. It's the reason a small, sleepy mountain village transforms

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once every year into a place where the world's best ski racers meet.

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Absolutely ripping it up! In the shadow of three great peaks, eight

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unique and challenging course was created here. A course so beautiful,

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so dramatic that it has hosted almost a century of racing.

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Its demands its subjects to imagine themselves in action.

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Nearly home, he's done it! And to tread a fine line between

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courage and respect. And he has fallen. A gruelling

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course like this entices the brave, invites ingenuity, summons stamina.

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This isolated village is about to transform, and the stories that

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unfold will likely be more unpredictable and dramatic than we

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can imagine. Hello and welcome to Ski Sunday. We

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are in there and then, the Swiss resort but is usually quiet and

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quaint. But not this weekend. We are joined by thousands of ski racing

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fans for the classic Lauberhorn races. Unfortunately, the weather

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has conspired against us, on the downhill has been cancelled, but as

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we proved last week, slalom and can be run in almost any conditions, and

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the Alpine technicians will be at it again here in Wengen. Later we are

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in Austria for the women's downhill, and all the talk is an Lindsey

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Vonn's comeback from injury. And we will be talking about Jeremie Heitz,

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whose need for speed is no less now he is riding big mountain is. At the

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moment, I don't think there is anyone who can touch him.

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Jeremie Ayre is redefining what is possible on a mountain, and the

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results are simply breathtaking. Stay tuned for that. But now it is

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time for the slalom. Last week, Henrik Kristofferson was

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blisteringly quick in Adelboden, and last week he won all four of the big

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classic races. Can he do it again? There is a good chance he will. He

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has redefined slalom skiing, he gets incredible angles and yet he moves

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with such speed and precision. Even Marcel Hirscher who uses the brute

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force technique is going to struggle to beat him. And there is a new name

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in the mix, Manfred Molgg is skiing wonderfully. Yes, he counts for a

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lot here because it is flat and then steep and then flat again, and you

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need that experience. We also have a very young David Ryder, a very good

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result for him last week shows improving form. And that result

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gives in the points to stay in the mix for the top 15, because starting

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early in slalom is important. I can't wait to see how he does.

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Slalom is tested over two runs. He is the best of the action from the

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first. COMMENTATOR: This looked liked being

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a brilliant first run in baby 19, but an review, he was disqualified,

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having been shown to miss the first gate. Luke O'Dea looked good for a

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top in the first five, before a mistake close to the finish. It was

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a disappointing morning for the Swiss team, with mark Shinnie

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arguing with a slalom poll. A stunning run finish them second,

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just 0.23 seconds behind Kristofferson. Marcel Hirscher is

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just behind the Russian in fourth. The inform Italian Manfred Molgg was

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first this morning, but finished a disappointing ten. The Brit skied an

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impressive run. And entertaining first run, and a very solid marker

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in ninth place of David Ryder. Yes, brilliant skiing from Ryder, and he

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is one place ahead of Manfred Molgg, who we tipped for the podium. If

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Ryder keeps this form, he will get a at some stage.

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No surprises, Henrik Kristofferson is looking comfortable at the top of

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the table. Yes, and his success is rubbing off on his team-mates.

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Jonathan Nord bottom had a very good second run. That Norwegian team is

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brimming with confidence. And you have Marcel Hirscher further down

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the standings, is the gap to big to close? Not at all, this new snow

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that has fallen has made the piste ever so slightly more grippy than we

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normally see, so we have these close time differences which will will

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lead to an exciting second run. The racers will descend in reverse

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order, which means Henrik Kristofferson will have the luxury

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of going last. Charlie Broome has the commentary.

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COMMENTATOR: Julian Lizeroux France, the advantage over his compatriot.

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Lizeroux slightly airborne as we see the yellow underside of his skis

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over that terrain change. But it hasn't heard his time. Now the steep

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section. Lizeroux, 1:30.37, and look at that, finding a lot of time

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between two and three, and he is letting his skis run. He needs to

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keep it clean if he can. 1:45.18, he has beaten him by nearly a second!

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Impressive skiing by Lizeroux. He enjoyed that one!

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What a crowd pleaser, he dives for the line to take the lead, one of

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the first skiers to drop that inside hand onto the snow, and now all of

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the racers are pretty much doing it. He really is a ground-breaking

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slalom skier. COMMENTATOR: And this is Yuasa of

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Japan, the next ago, his advantage over Lizeroux is slender, and it is

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the same at the first checkpoint. Oh, but he goes down as he comes up

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to the terrain change. A very disappointing way for Yuasa's

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challenge to finish. And now it is Felix Neureuther of Germany. Third

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in the 2009 edition here. And his advantage has been hard at the first

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intermediate, now coming into the steep part, and he still has the

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green light. Good from the German number one. Fourth in Adelboden last

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weekend, second in Zagreb three or four days before that. And he still

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has the green light inside of the finish, and Neureuther is

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desperately low on the slope, that surely has cost him as he comes over

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the final terrain change, Neureuther trying to take it away from

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Lizeroux, Germany trying to take it away from France, and he does!

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Somehow Neureuther get himself back up right to take the lead, what a

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ski that was. Felix Neureuther just looks so

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smooth, he doesn't look like he is trying, but he gained the speed by

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not making any mistakes at all and staying relaxed, brilliant over that

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second last roller to the finish. COMMENTATOR: Next ago, baby number

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46, skiing into 11th place in the first run, his advantage, he won a

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Roper cup race, and he has clearly brought that form, and he has grown

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the advantage, a brilliant start from the Austrian. And he still has

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the advantage as he comes on the steep. This is the hardest part of

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the challenge, and the key is to be clean as you come off it to keep the

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speed as you come onto this relatively flat section. 1:29.53,

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has he done it? No, he hasn't. He has lost time, 14 hundreds the wrong

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side. He is outside by 12 hundredths of a second.

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Next races Manfred Molgg, enjoying something of an Indian summer, with

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a victory in Zagreb and Adelboden. He likes to keep fit by climbing

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when he is not skiing, but can he harness his slalom skills and top

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the podium in Wengen? COMMENTATOR: The winner in Zagreb,

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second in Adelboden. Disappointed with his first run, what can he do

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on the second? He has to let the skis fly here. His advantage over

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Neureuther has been extended to two tenths. Good skiing so far, and the

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clock turns red, so he is on the wrong side of the clock. Now, he

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goes to work on the flatter section, 1:29.53, he still has time to make

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up, can he find it in these closing terms where Neureuther had a big

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mistake? He is outside that time I over half a second.

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David Ryder of Great Britain the next to go, ninth after the first

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run, his advantage over Neureuther, he was excellent on the first turn,

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and he has started well again on the second run. Neatly done by David

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Ryding. He has the green light, but it is close. This is the hardest

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part of the race. Neatly done, but what does the clock say? The light

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is read by over half a second, and he has to let it go if he is to

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maintain a top ten position. He is currently skiing in sixth, 1:43.94,

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that time comes and goes, and David Ryding is eight for the time being.

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His second run started well, able to generate speed on the flat of the

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course, but when he got onto the steep, he seemed to block himself as

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he went down, not letting the ski run, not generating speed, no bigger

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mistakes but just slipping a couple of tenths every turn.

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Next to go is Mattias Hardin. This summer, his wife was caught in an

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avalanche in Chile and died, and here set up a foundation and wants

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to continue to celebrate the times he and Matilda spent skiing. How

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will he fare today? COMMENTATOR: Sixth back in 2016, how

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will he perform? This man knows only one way to ski, and that is fallout

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attack, he is like a bull in a china shop when he on a China -- slalom

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course. How will he fare here? Sweden with so many top skiers, and

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in the slalom standings, it is a battle for all of them as they try

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to make the four spots available at the World Championships, eight of

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them in the top 30. Half of them will be disappointed. 1:29.53 is the

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time to beat, and he is the wrong side of the clock. Driving hard for

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the line, can he find one tenth of a second? 1:43.94, no he can't, and he

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goes forth. Patrick Tyler, the next to

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challenge. He straddles as he comes over the

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change. What a disappointment. On a fairly innocuous gate, comedy gets

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it wrong. This Austrian has been enjoying the

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recent dump of snow. He has been on the podium in four out of five

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slaloms this season. COMMENTATOR: .41 of an advantage

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over Neureuther. He has never won here in Wengen. Can he put the

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record straight? Hirscher has over half a second on his German rival.

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Hirscher, he recorded a podium finish 101 last weekend, looking for

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victory number 20 in slalom. Still has the Green light, still over half

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a second. Hirscher, driving for the line. Hirscher leads. Neureuther

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drops into second. Absolutely blistering run from Marcel Hirscher.

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He does attack on the difficult courses. He cuts the line-up with so

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much pressure on the skis, so clean on his edges. Not as quick as

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Neureuther in the final section of the course, but has throw down the

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gauntlet of the Henrik Kristoffersen at the top.

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COMMENTATOR: His advantage over Hirscher, just 1200th of a second.

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He likes its steep, and that is what we have here it is desperately icy.

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Can he find his best form on the steep. Shows you how well Hirscher

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Skeete, because the Russian is just behind Hirscher. He is a long way

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off the pace of the Austrian. As skied himself out of the podium at

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the moment. In seventh place. Needs to find time on these bottom turns.

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Two remain, both are Norwegian. The first ago,. 26 years of age. His

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advantage over Hirscher Kotze. Gone the wrong side of the gate.

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That is the end of the road. What a disappointment after a great first

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run. Massive disappointment, sat on his inside ski and got late. Had to

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stop and went out of the course. Those World Cup points would have

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been crucial to move his start number forward. It wasn't to be for

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one Norwegian, one left to go. Henrik Kristoffersen, the last ago.

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Huge advantage over Hirscher. 0.56 of a second. He has won three of the

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four slalom races he has raced this season. Henrik Kristoffersen

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maintains the advantage at half a second. He makes slalom skiing look

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so easy. 113.6. He loses a little bit more time. Hirscher was

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excellent down this steep bit. Henrik Kristoffersen will be under

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pressure. But he rarely feels the pressure. Well, he has got the red

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light, so Henrik Kristoffersen doesn't ski it well. He will have to

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find something here, otherwise Hirscher will make the 20th slalom

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World Cup win. Never any doubt! Hirscher cannot believe it. Henrik

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Kristoffersen has won again. This man is incredible. When Hirscher saw

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the red light on, he thought he might have finally done it. But

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Henrik Kristoffersen skied the final section very well, almost as well as

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Neureuther skied it. And carried the speed over birth flat for Gates to

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the finish and picked the Austrian. The final results...

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It is Henrik Kristoffersen who will take the overall lead in the men's

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slalom standings. Dave Riding finishes 12th. It says something

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you're disappointed coming down with a top 15 results? I come down and I

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saw eight. I thought that is not top 15 if everyone finishes. It was

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tough, I did what I could, it is so hard to keep it going the whole way.

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I just miss out on the top ten. But I was happy with that. Today was a

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little bit more difficult with the courses being so fast and straight.

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I like it when it is turning more and a bit more difficult. So does

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Marcel? He does, but he skis with more power and intensity than I do,

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I am a little bit more smooth sometimes. But we are kind of

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similar. Today, I am really happy. The men have been racing in Wengen,

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but the women have been racing as well. We have one of the all-time

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greats. She has been the dominant force on snow for so long now,

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Olympic downhill champion, for overall World Cup son two world

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titles. Very little Lindsey Vonn hasn't already won. The

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uncompromising approach to ski racing has left her injury prone and

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this problem has been difficult to overcome. A training accident in

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November left out with extensive nerve damage and the loss of feeling

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in her right arm. The world kept spinning while she recovered,

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bringing an exciting new name to talk about in the name of downhill.

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Breathtaking skiing from the civilian.

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This weekend, against all the odds, guess who is back? Back again.

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Brillant from Vonn. No one can touch her when she is racing. Can you talk

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me through the last few months, what it has taken for you to get here? It

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has been a lot of work, rehab five hours a day. Step-by-step, I am

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making progress, but still a little bit to go. What do you make of Ilka

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Stuhec, and her progress? I haven't really watched, it is insane to what

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races when I cannot be there, but I am happy for her. Big goals, big

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titles? Definitely, I didn't finish two races and I missed one downhill

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and I still won the title. Anything is possible and I will give my best

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every day and we will see what happens at the end of the season.

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Who is this new start to emerge? It is Slovenia's Ilka Stuhec. She has

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won all three downhill this season beating the likes of Lara Gut along

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the way. She always had potential. She was a three-time junior

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champion, but her success this season has come as a surprise to

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everybody. Incredible season for you so far this year? It is amazing. I

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know how good I can ski but I didn't show it in the race yet. When it

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started to go, everything was growing and I was more confident. I

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had more fun and it is just flowing. At home, you are a big star, you are

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on billboards, how does it feel? Kind of weird. I am still the same,

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I didn't change, but everybody knows me now. It is nice. In 2016, Vonn

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was head and shoulders above the rest of the field before injury cut

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her season short. Last season she was an entire second faster than

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anybody else. As the 2017, the American still has World Cup titles

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in her sights. So victory number 77 of an already incredible career

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could be on the cards. Picking up the action is Charlie Broome.

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COMMENTATOR: Lindsey Vonn, coming back to reaction. But first Ilka

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Stuhec, picking up the mantle. The last skier to win the first four.

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Stuhec has the advantage by 0.74 over Sophia Godley in the finish.

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Stuhec continues her fine form. Goggia's time... She gets hard on

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the right ski before snaking her way back. Here comes the final jump.

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Stuhec, surely it is going to be beaten? 1.39, the right side of the

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clock. Here is a welcome sight for ski racing fans. Lindsey Vonn in the

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start of a World Cup race. That break of her right arm, has it

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affected her ability to get her initial speed out of the hut. She is

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half a second off the pace. Vonn, finds herself 0.89 out of the place.

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Will she find some time as she comes across the hill. Coming up to the

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final jump. Vonn goes into second for the time being. She is safely

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down. First blood to Ilka Stuhec as Lindsey Vonn's comeback ended in

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disappointment. The American eventually finished 13th. But Lara

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Gut was delighted. That was before Tino Y Rather stunned the crowd

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finishing ahead of Lara Gut. She looks set for her first downhill

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victory. It was time for one last twist.

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Christine Shire of Austria. Perhaps a dark horse. That has gone up to

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0.60 two. She has run a little wide, Scheyer. Has to come back and that

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has resulted in her running wide as well. She still has half a second in

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the tank. Scheyer, in only had 12 World Cup start. Little wobble. Her

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best finish was ninth in Valder 's earlier in the season. She is there

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by 0.39 of a second. And Scheyer sends the Austrian coaches into

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raptures. A result nobody could have

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predicted, even more so when Jacqueline Wyles, an ambassador of

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the Lindsey Vonn foundation scored her maiden World Cup podium later

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on. Scheyer took the wind. The women's World Cup moves on next

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weekend and who knows what will lie in store for us.

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In as part of the world, every kid dreams of becoming a ski racer. It

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is the equivalent of wanting to become a footballer back home, but

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very few make it to the top. And like in football, the question is,

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what next? It was a conundrum Jeremie Heitz faced a few years ago.

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But he came up with a spectacular answer.

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50 years ago, these peaks were sold preserve mountaineers, armed with

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ice axes and a great deal of courage. The idea of descending

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these sheer faces on skis was considered impossible. Then came the

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steep skiing pioneers, and extreme skiing was born. Half a century

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later, a young man husband following in their footsteps, drawing up a

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list of some of the Alps' steepest peaks to climb and ski.

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I was born here in the mountains. I've been skiing all my life. For

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me, it wouldn't be possible to live without this passion, this sport. I

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came to a tiny Swiss mountain village to meet Jeremie Heitz. How

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would you describe this ski resort? It is where I learned how to ski. It

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is my home. As soon as I was able to walk, my parents put me on some

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skis, and then it is where I learned Alpine racing. You were a really

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talented downhill racer. Your technique was really good. But it

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was your size that you struggled with? Yes, exactly. I did some Swiss

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championships. But I was not good at all in alpine skiing. When Jeremie

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Lane school, he turned his back on formal ski training and started

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riding with the legendary extreme skiing brothers Nicholas and

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Lori Falquet. As soon as I saw him, I knew he had something special. He

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is super fast and super motivated, and you put this together, you have

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one of the best skiers in the world. Since he was a little kid, he had

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this energy that was probably hard to manage for the parents and

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grandparents, and maybe if you find a way to manage his energy in this

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sport, and that is a very important aspect of this little guy. Not big,

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but strong. Jeremie Chardy that energy into La List, his idea being

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to scale and film 15 of the top weeks. The idea was to show the

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evolution of steep skiing, so that was the red line for me. That was

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the natural evolution of my skiing, exploring this area for a lot of

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times, and for me, it is clear, the Alps is the best playground we have.

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He started skiing behind us. He was the first to climb out and ski down

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this route. Because before that, people had only been interested in

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climbing it? Exactly, and he said to himself, I think it is possible to

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ski down this route. Saudin became known for skiing the

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impossible, and Jeremie decided to attempt became slope. It has been 50

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years since he was here to ski for the first time.

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He wants to show that skiing has progressed, and for a long time it

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didn't. Steep skiing was popular for 20 years in the mid-80s, and then it

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was trying to get down the mountain in the safest possible way. The

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original steep skiers use the windscreen wiper technique, jumping

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back and forth. Basically trying to find the safest way to get down the

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mountain. I like to ski fast, and I've been

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doing that for ages now. When I was a kid, we were going up to the

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summit of these mountains, and we wanted to go the fastest we can, and

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to be the first down to the chalet, so that was always the game.

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Speed you ski on the gradients, the risk looks so high. How do you

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minimise the risk? It is the preparation. There is a lot of

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tension, because you are waiting a really long time to get those

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perfect conditions, and you are putting the pressure on yourself. I

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won't deny it is dangerous, but he is at such a level, he knows what

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he's doing. He is not unnecessary risks. People at the top of their

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game, they have got such a feel for the mountain. The reason why we

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climb at first this mountain, at least we are all aware about the

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steepness, the snow, and then we can see how much snow is sticking to the

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ice at every aspect. All of the elements you need to study to know

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it's safe? Yes, and to know how fast you could ski this route. The choice

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you have to make on the mountain, if you take the wrong decision,

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sometimes it can underpin a really bad situation.

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It is overconfidence, I think. When you lose one ski, especially on the

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ice, when it is super steep, you can't do anything. And on that

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gradient, at that speed, if you catch, you can start to tumble, and

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you won't stop? Yes. We are just playing close to a certain line,

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where you can have high consequences, and if you are close

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to that line a lot of the time, you have those experiences.

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If you are able to learn from this mistake, it is the best experience

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you can have on the mountain. After that, I was telling to myself that I

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need to go back home, to take a rest, to learn from this

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experience,... And to process it? Exactly, and then to come back, and

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we did that with success, so I am super happy.

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You've worked with some of the best skiers in the world. Put Jeremie

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Lane context with those. Just how good is he? In the environment he is

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in, which is the big, big mountain, at the moment, I don't think there

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is anyone who can touch him. I think the most impressive thing I have

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witnessed an skis is possibly the descent he did on the Gabba horn,

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and it is like the days where it is in a condition to ski so few and far

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between. We had the discussion if he should ski this line or not, and in

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my opinion, it was too risky for me, and he was still taking it. It's

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opening also my eyes. Not many people would have skied it, and I'm

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pretty certain no one would have skied it at the speed he did.

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He once dominant most scared he has ever been an skis were stood on one

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of those Alaskan peaks. And that puts it in perspective, because in

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Alaska you have huge amounts of soft snow. What Jeremie is doing is

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skiing steeper harder snow twice as fast. We have arrived at the end of

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the show, but we just have time for Ski Social. We asked you to send in

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your pictures, and you did in abundance. What we were not expected

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was the artwork, and I love these because I appeared to be having more

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fun than you. But look at the smile on my face, and I have obviously had

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a really big lunch! Photorealistic. You have also been sending in your

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videos as well, and it is great to see you starting your kids so young.

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Archie has clearly inherited the speed gene. And Ted appeared to have

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been inspired by last week's dry slope feature, he has gone DIY on

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us. Ten out of ten for creativity, keep sending us your photos and

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videos, and don't forget your questions. Does use the hashtag: The

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first question this week, a lot of people were confused by your, last

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week in the slalom that the coaches set the courses. A lot of people

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wondering if that is fair. If you had a standard course set like you

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having downhill, you would lose the progressive element of that

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discipline, so what happens is they take the top 15 skiers, the coaches

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are drawn at random at the beginning of the season, so if David Ryding

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keeps skiing well, we could have a British course set next season.

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Fantastic news. Sam wants to know how Deuchar von ice, he feels like

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he is just sliding. I feel a demonstration coming on.

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Three tips for you for carving on ice. Practical, technical and

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psychological. Make sure your edges are sharp enough, I do take your

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skis to the ski shop, or sharpen them yourself. Secondly,

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technically, make sure you are stood in the right position. Try to avoid

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too much pivot or steering movement with your ski. Thirdly,

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psychological. You have got to have faith that your skis are going to

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grip. You have to have faith to lean them over on an edge, otherwise they

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will not carve. Hopefully that has answered your

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question, Sam. I'm afraid that's all we've got time for this week. We

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