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Imagination. It's a powerful force. Looking beyond what is towards what | 0:00:51 | 0:01:00 | |
could be. It's the reason a small, sleepy mountain village transforms | 0:01:01 | 0:01:05 | |
once every year into a place where the world's best ski racers meet. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:15 | |
Absolutely ripping it up! In the shadow of three great peaks, eight | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
unique and challenging course was created here. A course so beautiful, | 0:01:20 | 0:01:27 | |
so dramatic that it has hosted almost a century of racing. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:37 | |
Its demands its subjects to imagine themselves in action. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:44 | |
Nearly home, he's done it! And to tread a fine line between | 0:01:45 | 0:01:51 | |
courage and respect. And he has fallen. A gruelling | 0:01:52 | 0:01:58 | |
course like this entices the brave, invites ingenuity, summons stamina. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:04 | |
This isolated village is about to transform, and the stories that | 0:02:05 | 0:02:10 | |
unfold will likely be more unpredictable and dramatic than we | 0:02:11 | 0:02:11 | |
can imagine. Hello and welcome to Ski Sunday. We | 0:02:12 | 0:02:20 | |
are in there and then, the Swiss resort but is usually quiet and | 0:02:21 | 0:02:26 | |
quaint. But not this weekend. We are joined by thousands of ski racing | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
fans for the classic Lauberhorn races. Unfortunately, the weather | 0:02:30 | 0:02:35 | |
has conspired against us, on the downhill has been cancelled, but as | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
we proved last week, slalom and can be run in almost any conditions, and | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
the Alpine technicians will be at it again here in Wengen. Later we are | 0:02:44 | 0:02:54 | |
in Austria for the women's downhill, and all the talk is an Lindsey | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
Vonn's comeback from injury. And we will be talking about Jeremie Heitz, | 0:02:58 | 0:03:06 | |
whose need for speed is no less now he is riding big mountain is. At the | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
moment, I don't think there is anyone who can touch him. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:17 | |
Jeremie Ayre is redefining what is possible on a mountain, and the | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
results are simply breathtaking. Stay tuned for that. But now it is | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
time for the slalom. Last week, Henrik Kristofferson was | 0:03:26 | 0:03:31 | |
blisteringly quick in Adelboden, and last week he won all four of the big | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
classic races. Can he do it again? There is a good chance he will. He | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
has redefined slalom skiing, he gets incredible angles and yet he moves | 0:03:41 | 0:03:46 | |
with such speed and precision. Even Marcel Hirscher who uses the brute | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
force technique is going to struggle to beat him. And there is a new name | 0:03:50 | 0:03:58 | |
in the mix, Manfred Molgg is skiing wonderfully. Yes, he counts for a | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
lot here because it is flat and then steep and then flat again, and you | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
need that experience. We also have a very young David Ryder, a very good | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
result for him last week shows improving form. And that result | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
gives in the points to stay in the mix for the top 15, because starting | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
early in slalom is important. I can't wait to see how he does. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:30 | |
Slalom is tested over two runs. He is the best of the action from the | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
first. COMMENTATOR: This looked liked being | 0:04:36 | 0:04:51 | |
a brilliant first run in baby 19, but an review, he was disqualified, | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
having been shown to miss the first gate. Luke O'Dea looked good for a | 0:04:57 | 0:05:01 | |
top in the first five, before a mistake close to the finish. It was | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
a disappointing morning for the Swiss team, with mark Shinnie | 0:05:06 | 0:05:15 | |
arguing with a slalom poll. A stunning run finish them second, | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
just 0.23 seconds behind Kristofferson. Marcel Hirscher is | 0:05:20 | 0:05:29 | |
just behind the Russian in fourth. The inform Italian Manfred Molgg was | 0:05:30 | 0:05:38 | |
first this morning, but finished a disappointing ten. The Brit skied an | 0:05:39 | 0:05:47 | |
impressive run. And entertaining first run, and a very solid marker | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
in ninth place of David Ryder. Yes, brilliant skiing from Ryder, and he | 0:05:53 | 0:06:00 | |
is one place ahead of Manfred Molgg, who we tipped for the podium. If | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
Ryder keeps this form, he will get a at some stage. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:11 | |
No surprises, Henrik Kristofferson is looking comfortable at the top of | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
the table. Yes, and his success is rubbing off on his team-mates. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
Jonathan Nord bottom had a very good second run. That Norwegian team is | 0:06:20 | 0:06:29 | |
brimming with confidence. And you have Marcel Hirscher further down | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
the standings, is the gap to big to close? Not at all, this new snow | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
that has fallen has made the piste ever so slightly more grippy than we | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
normally see, so we have these close time differences which will will | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
lead to an exciting second run. The racers will descend in reverse | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
order, which means Henrik Kristofferson will have the luxury | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
of going last. Charlie Broome has the commentary. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
COMMENTATOR: Julian Lizeroux France, the advantage over his compatriot. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:21 | |
Lizeroux slightly airborne as we see the yellow underside of his skis | 0:07:22 | 0:07:30 | |
over that terrain change. But it hasn't heard his time. Now the steep | 0:07:31 | 0:07:44 | |
section. Lizeroux, 1:30.37, and look at that, finding a lot of time | 0:07:45 | 0:07:51 | |
between two and three, and he is letting his skis run. He needs to | 0:07:52 | 0:07:59 | |
keep it clean if he can. 1:45.18, he has beaten him by nearly a second! | 0:08:00 | 0:08:06 | |
Impressive skiing by Lizeroux. He enjoyed that one! | 0:08:07 | 0:08:12 | |
What a crowd pleaser, he dives for the line to take the lead, one of | 0:08:13 | 0:08:19 | |
the first skiers to drop that inside hand onto the snow, and now all of | 0:08:20 | 0:08:24 | |
the racers are pretty much doing it. He really is a ground-breaking | 0:08:25 | 0:08:25 | |
slalom skier. COMMENTATOR: And this is Yuasa of | 0:08:26 | 0:08:38 | |
Japan, the next ago, his advantage over Lizeroux is slender, and it is | 0:08:39 | 0:08:46 | |
the same at the first checkpoint. Oh, but he goes down as he comes up | 0:08:47 | 0:08:52 | |
to the terrain change. A very disappointing way for Yuasa's | 0:08:53 | 0:09:01 | |
challenge to finish. And now it is Felix Neureuther of Germany. Third | 0:09:02 | 0:09:14 | |
in the 2009 edition here. And his advantage has been hard at the first | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
intermediate, now coming into the steep part, and he still has the | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
green light. Good from the German number one. Fourth in Adelboden last | 0:09:25 | 0:09:32 | |
weekend, second in Zagreb three or four days before that. And he still | 0:09:33 | 0:09:38 | |
has the green light inside of the finish, and Neureuther is | 0:09:39 | 0:09:40 | |
desperately low on the slope, that surely has cost him as he comes over | 0:09:41 | 0:09:46 | |
the final terrain change, Neureuther trying to take it away from | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
Lizeroux, Germany trying to take it away from France, and he does! | 0:09:50 | 0:09:54 | |
Somehow Neureuther get himself back up right to take the lead, what a | 0:09:55 | 0:10:00 | |
ski that was. Felix Neureuther just looks so | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
smooth, he doesn't look like he is trying, but he gained the speed by | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
not making any mistakes at all and staying relaxed, brilliant over that | 0:10:08 | 0:10:13 | |
second last roller to the finish. COMMENTATOR: Next ago, baby number | 0:10:14 | 0:10:20 | |
46, skiing into 11th place in the first run, his advantage, he won a | 0:10:21 | 0:10:32 | |
Roper cup race, and he has clearly brought that form, and he has grown | 0:10:33 | 0:10:43 | |
the advantage, a brilliant start from the Austrian. And he still has | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
the advantage as he comes on the steep. This is the hardest part of | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 | |
the challenge, and the key is to be clean as you come off it to keep the | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
speed as you come onto this relatively flat section. 1:29.53, | 0:10:57 | 0:11:03 | |
has he done it? No, he hasn't. He has lost time, 14 hundreds the wrong | 0:11:04 | 0:11:16 | |
side. He is outside by 12 hundredths of a second. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:23 | |
Next races Manfred Molgg, enjoying something of an Indian summer, with | 0:11:24 | 0:11:33 | |
a victory in Zagreb and Adelboden. He likes to keep fit by climbing | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
when he is not skiing, but can he harness his slalom skills and top | 0:11:38 | 0:11:43 | |
the podium in Wengen? COMMENTATOR: The winner in Zagreb, | 0:11:44 | 0:11:53 | |
second in Adelboden. Disappointed with his first run, what can he do | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
on the second? He has to let the skis fly here. His advantage over | 0:11:58 | 0:12:03 | |
Neureuther has been extended to two tenths. Good skiing so far, and the | 0:12:04 | 0:12:17 | |
clock turns red, so he is on the wrong side of the clock. Now, he | 0:12:18 | 0:12:30 | |
goes to work on the flatter section, 1:29.53, he still has time to make | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
up, can he find it in these closing terms where Neureuther had a big | 0:12:35 | 0:12:41 | |
mistake? He is outside that time I over half a second. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:48 | |
David Ryder of Great Britain the next to go, ninth after the first | 0:12:49 | 0:13:01 | |
run, his advantage over Neureuther, he was excellent on the first turn, | 0:13:02 | 0:13:11 | |
and he has started well again on the second run. Neatly done by David | 0:13:12 | 0:13:22 | |
Ryding. He has the green light, but it is close. This is the hardest | 0:13:23 | 0:13:31 | |
part of the race. Neatly done, but what does the clock say? The light | 0:13:32 | 0:13:37 | |
is read by over half a second, and he has to let it go if he is to | 0:13:38 | 0:13:47 | |
maintain a top ten position. He is currently skiing in sixth, 1:43.94, | 0:13:48 | 0:13:52 | |
that time comes and goes, and David Ryding is eight for the time being. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:58 | |
His second run started well, able to generate speed on the flat of the | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
course, but when he got onto the steep, he seemed to block himself as | 0:14:02 | 0:14:06 | |
he went down, not letting the ski run, not generating speed, no bigger | 0:14:07 | 0:14:11 | |
mistakes but just slipping a couple of tenths every turn. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:19 | |
Next to go is Mattias Hardin. This summer, his wife was caught in an | 0:14:20 | 0:14:26 | |
avalanche in Chile and died, and here set up a foundation and wants | 0:14:27 | 0:14:31 | |
to continue to celebrate the times he and Matilda spent skiing. How | 0:14:32 | 0:14:35 | |
will he fare today? COMMENTATOR: Sixth back in 2016, how | 0:14:36 | 0:14:43 | |
will he perform? This man knows only one way to ski, and that is fallout | 0:14:44 | 0:14:49 | |
attack, he is like a bull in a china shop when he on a China -- slalom | 0:14:50 | 0:14:57 | |
course. How will he fare here? Sweden with so many top skiers, and | 0:14:58 | 0:15:04 | |
in the slalom standings, it is a battle for all of them as they try | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
to make the four spots available at the World Championships, eight of | 0:15:09 | 0:15:14 | |
them in the top 30. Half of them will be disappointed. 1:29.53 is the | 0:15:15 | 0:15:23 | |
time to beat, and he is the wrong side of the clock. Driving hard for | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
the line, can he find one tenth of a second? 1:43.94, no he can't, and he | 0:15:28 | 0:15:32 | |
goes forth. Patrick Tyler, the next to | 0:15:33 | 0:15:46 | |
challenge. He straddles as he comes over the | 0:15:47 | 0:16:10 | |
change. What a disappointment. On a fairly innocuous gate, comedy gets | 0:16:11 | 0:16:16 | |
it wrong. This Austrian has been enjoying the | 0:16:17 | 0:16:21 | |
recent dump of snow. He has been on the podium in four out of five | 0:16:22 | 0:16:37 | |
slaloms this season. COMMENTATOR: .41 of an advantage | 0:16:38 | 0:16:43 | |
over Neureuther. He has never won here in Wengen. Can he put the | 0:16:44 | 0:16:52 | |
record straight? Hirscher has over half a second on his German rival. | 0:16:53 | 0:17:05 | |
Hirscher, he recorded a podium finish 101 last weekend, looking for | 0:17:06 | 0:17:11 | |
victory number 20 in slalom. Still has the Green light, still over half | 0:17:12 | 0:17:18 | |
a second. Hirscher, driving for the line. Hirscher leads. Neureuther | 0:17:19 | 0:17:30 | |
drops into second. Absolutely blistering run from Marcel Hirscher. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
He does attack on the difficult courses. He cuts the line-up with so | 0:17:34 | 0:17:40 | |
much pressure on the skis, so clean on his edges. Not as quick as | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
Neureuther in the final section of the course, but has throw down the | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
gauntlet of the Henrik Kristoffersen at the top. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:59 | |
COMMENTATOR: His advantage over Hirscher, just 1200th of a second. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:07 | |
He likes its steep, and that is what we have here it is desperately icy. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:17 | |
Can he find his best form on the steep. Shows you how well Hirscher | 0:18:18 | 0:18:26 | |
Skeete, because the Russian is just behind Hirscher. He is a long way | 0:18:27 | 0:18:40 | |
off the pace of the Austrian. As skied himself out of the podium at | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
the moment. In seventh place. Needs to find time on these bottom turns. | 0:18:45 | 0:19:01 | |
Two remain, both are Norwegian. The first ago,. 26 years of age. His | 0:19:02 | 0:19:14 | |
advantage over Hirscher Kotze. Gone the wrong side of the gate. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:32 | |
That is the end of the road. What a disappointment after a great first | 0:19:33 | 0:19:37 | |
run. Massive disappointment, sat on his inside ski and got late. Had to | 0:19:38 | 0:19:45 | |
stop and went out of the course. Those World Cup points would have | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
been crucial to move his start number forward. It wasn't to be for | 0:19:50 | 0:19:56 | |
one Norwegian, one left to go. Henrik Kristoffersen, the last ago. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:04 | |
Huge advantage over Hirscher. 0.56 of a second. He has won three of the | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
four slalom races he has raced this season. Henrik Kristoffersen | 0:20:09 | 0:20:17 | |
maintains the advantage at half a second. He makes slalom skiing look | 0:20:18 | 0:20:29 | |
so easy. 113.6. He loses a little bit more time. Hirscher was | 0:20:30 | 0:20:34 | |
excellent down this steep bit. Henrik Kristoffersen will be under | 0:20:35 | 0:20:39 | |
pressure. But he rarely feels the pressure. Well, he has got the red | 0:20:40 | 0:20:45 | |
light, so Henrik Kristoffersen doesn't ski it well. He will have to | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
find something here, otherwise Hirscher will make the 20th slalom | 0:20:50 | 0:20:59 | |
World Cup win. Never any doubt! Hirscher cannot believe it. Henrik | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
Kristoffersen has won again. This man is incredible. When Hirscher saw | 0:21:04 | 0:21:10 | |
the red light on, he thought he might have finally done it. But | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
Henrik Kristoffersen skied the final section very well, almost as well as | 0:21:14 | 0:21:22 | |
Neureuther skied it. And carried the speed over birth flat for Gates to | 0:21:23 | 0:21:29 | |
the finish and picked the Austrian. The final results... | 0:21:30 | 0:21:37 | |
It is Henrik Kristoffersen who will take the overall lead in the men's | 0:21:38 | 0:21:44 | |
slalom standings. Dave Riding finishes 12th. It says something | 0:21:45 | 0:21:50 | |
you're disappointed coming down with a top 15 results? I come down and I | 0:21:51 | 0:21:59 | |
saw eight. I thought that is not top 15 if everyone finishes. It was | 0:22:00 | 0:22:04 | |
tough, I did what I could, it is so hard to keep it going the whole way. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:10 | |
I just miss out on the top ten. But I was happy with that. Today was a | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
little bit more difficult with the courses being so fast and straight. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:20 | |
I like it when it is turning more and a bit more difficult. So does | 0:22:21 | 0:22:28 | |
Marcel? He does, but he skis with more power and intensity than I do, | 0:22:29 | 0:22:33 | |
I am a little bit more smooth sometimes. But we are kind of | 0:22:34 | 0:22:40 | |
similar. Today, I am really happy. The men have been racing in Wengen, | 0:22:41 | 0:22:52 | |
but the women have been racing as well. We have one of the all-time | 0:22:53 | 0:23:00 | |
greats. She has been the dominant force on snow for so long now, | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
Olympic downhill champion, for overall World Cup son two world | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
titles. Very little Lindsey Vonn hasn't already won. The | 0:23:10 | 0:23:16 | |
uncompromising approach to ski racing has left her injury prone and | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
this problem has been difficult to overcome. A training accident in | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
November left out with extensive nerve damage and the loss of feeling | 0:23:24 | 0:23:30 | |
in her right arm. The world kept spinning while she recovered, | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
bringing an exciting new name to talk about in the name of downhill. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:40 | |
Breathtaking skiing from the civilian. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:47 | |
This weekend, against all the odds, guess who is back? Back again. | 0:23:48 | 0:24:00 | |
Brillant from Vonn. No one can touch her when she is racing. Can you talk | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
me through the last few months, what it has taken for you to get here? It | 0:24:06 | 0:24:12 | |
has been a lot of work, rehab five hours a day. Step-by-step, I am | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
making progress, but still a little bit to go. What do you make of Ilka | 0:24:17 | 0:24:25 | |
Stuhec, and her progress? I haven't really watched, it is insane to what | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
races when I cannot be there, but I am happy for her. Big goals, big | 0:24:30 | 0:24:37 | |
titles? Definitely, I didn't finish two races and I missed one downhill | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
and I still won the title. Anything is possible and I will give my best | 0:24:42 | 0:24:45 | |
every day and we will see what happens at the end of the season. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:51 | |
Who is this new start to emerge? It is Slovenia's Ilka Stuhec. She has | 0:24:52 | 0:24:59 | |
won all three downhill this season beating the likes of Lara Gut along | 0:25:00 | 0:25:06 | |
the way. She always had potential. She was a three-time junior | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
champion, but her success this season has come as a surprise to | 0:25:12 | 0:25:17 | |
everybody. Incredible season for you so far this year? It is amazing. I | 0:25:18 | 0:25:23 | |
know how good I can ski but I didn't show it in the race yet. When it | 0:25:24 | 0:25:28 | |
started to go, everything was growing and I was more confident. I | 0:25:29 | 0:25:33 | |
had more fun and it is just flowing. At home, you are a big star, you are | 0:25:34 | 0:25:39 | |
on billboards, how does it feel? Kind of weird. I am still the same, | 0:25:40 | 0:25:45 | |
I didn't change, but everybody knows me now. It is nice. In 2016, Vonn | 0:25:46 | 0:25:51 | |
was head and shoulders above the rest of the field before injury cut | 0:25:52 | 0:25:57 | |
her season short. Last season she was an entire second faster than | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
anybody else. As the 2017, the American still has World Cup titles | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
in her sights. So victory number 77 of an already incredible career | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
could be on the cards. Picking up the action is Charlie Broome. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:18 | |
COMMENTATOR: Lindsey Vonn, coming back to reaction. But first Ilka | 0:26:19 | 0:26:27 | |
Stuhec, picking up the mantle. The last skier to win the first four. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:37 | |
Stuhec has the advantage by 0.74 over Sophia Godley in the finish. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:50 | |
Stuhec continues her fine form. Goggia's time... She gets hard on | 0:26:51 | 0:27:00 | |
the right ski before snaking her way back. Here comes the final jump. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:07 | |
Stuhec, surely it is going to be beaten? 1.39, the right side of the | 0:27:08 | 0:27:18 | |
clock. Here is a welcome sight for ski racing fans. Lindsey Vonn in the | 0:27:19 | 0:27:24 | |
start of a World Cup race. That break of her right arm, has it | 0:27:25 | 0:27:34 | |
affected her ability to get her initial speed out of the hut. She is | 0:27:35 | 0:27:43 | |
half a second off the pace. Vonn, finds herself 0.89 out of the place. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:51 | |
Will she find some time as she comes across the hill. Coming up to the | 0:27:52 | 0:28:02 | |
final jump. Vonn goes into second for the time being. She is safely | 0:28:03 | 0:28:09 | |
down. First blood to Ilka Stuhec as Lindsey Vonn's comeback ended in | 0:28:10 | 0:28:14 | |
disappointment. The American eventually finished 13th. But Lara | 0:28:15 | 0:28:25 | |
Gut was delighted. That was before Tino Y Rather stunned the crowd | 0:28:26 | 0:28:33 | |
finishing ahead of Lara Gut. She looks set for her first downhill | 0:28:34 | 0:28:38 | |
victory. It was time for one last twist. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:46 | |
Christine Shire of Austria. Perhaps a dark horse. That has gone up to | 0:28:47 | 0:28:58 | |
0.60 two. She has run a little wide, Scheyer. Has to come back and that | 0:28:59 | 0:29:04 | |
has resulted in her running wide as well. She still has half a second in | 0:29:05 | 0:29:11 | |
the tank. Scheyer, in only had 12 World Cup start. Little wobble. Her | 0:29:12 | 0:29:18 | |
best finish was ninth in Valder 's earlier in the season. She is there | 0:29:19 | 0:29:26 | |
by 0.39 of a second. And Scheyer sends the Austrian coaches into | 0:29:27 | 0:29:30 | |
raptures. A result nobody could have | 0:29:31 | 0:29:35 | |
predicted, even more so when Jacqueline Wyles, an ambassador of | 0:29:36 | 0:29:38 | |
the Lindsey Vonn foundation scored her maiden World Cup podium later | 0:29:39 | 0:29:49 | |
on. Scheyer took the wind. The women's World Cup moves on next | 0:29:50 | 0:29:55 | |
weekend and who knows what will lie in store for us. | 0:29:56 | 0:29:59 | |
In as part of the world, every kid dreams of becoming a ski racer. It | 0:30:00 | 0:30:03 | |
is the equivalent of wanting to become a footballer back home, but | 0:30:04 | 0:30:08 | |
very few make it to the top. And like in football, the question is, | 0:30:09 | 0:30:13 | |
what next? It was a conundrum Jeremie Heitz faced a few years ago. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:16 | |
But he came up with a spectacular answer. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:23 | |
50 years ago, these peaks were sold preserve mountaineers, armed with | 0:30:24 | 0:30:28 | |
ice axes and a great deal of courage. The idea of descending | 0:30:29 | 0:30:32 | |
these sheer faces on skis was considered impossible. Then came the | 0:30:33 | 0:30:37 | |
steep skiing pioneers, and extreme skiing was born. Half a century | 0:30:38 | 0:30:43 | |
later, a young man husband following in their footsteps, drawing up a | 0:30:44 | 0:30:48 | |
list of some of the Alps' steepest peaks to climb and ski. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:55 | |
I was born here in the mountains. I've been skiing all my life. For | 0:30:56 | 0:31:06 | |
me, it wouldn't be possible to live without this passion, this sport. I | 0:31:07 | 0:31:10 | |
came to a tiny Swiss mountain village to meet Jeremie Heitz. How | 0:31:11 | 0:31:19 | |
would you describe this ski resort? It is where I learned how to ski. It | 0:31:20 | 0:31:24 | |
is my home. As soon as I was able to walk, my parents put me on some | 0:31:25 | 0:31:31 | |
skis, and then it is where I learned Alpine racing. You were a really | 0:31:32 | 0:31:36 | |
talented downhill racer. Your technique was really good. But it | 0:31:37 | 0:31:40 | |
was your size that you struggled with? Yes, exactly. I did some Swiss | 0:31:41 | 0:31:52 | |
championships. But I was not good at all in alpine skiing. When Jeremie | 0:31:53 | 0:31:56 | |
Lane school, he turned his back on formal ski training and started | 0:31:57 | 0:32:00 | |
riding with the legendary extreme skiing brothers Nicholas and | 0:32:01 | 0:32:12 | |
Lori Falquet. As soon as I saw him, I knew he had something special. He | 0:32:13 | 0:32:25 | |
is super fast and super motivated, and you put this together, you have | 0:32:26 | 0:32:29 | |
one of the best skiers in the world. Since he was a little kid, he had | 0:32:30 | 0:32:32 | |
this energy that was probably hard to manage for the parents and | 0:32:33 | 0:32:38 | |
grandparents, and maybe if you find a way to manage his energy in this | 0:32:39 | 0:32:43 | |
sport, and that is a very important aspect of this little guy. Not big, | 0:32:44 | 0:32:50 | |
but strong. Jeremie Chardy that energy into La List, his idea being | 0:32:51 | 0:33:01 | |
to scale and film 15 of the top weeks. The idea was to show the | 0:33:02 | 0:33:08 | |
evolution of steep skiing, so that was the red line for me. That was | 0:33:09 | 0:33:14 | |
the natural evolution of my skiing, exploring this area for a lot of | 0:33:15 | 0:33:21 | |
times, and for me, it is clear, the Alps is the best playground we have. | 0:33:22 | 0:33:33 | |
He started skiing behind us. He was the first to climb out and ski down | 0:33:34 | 0:33:40 | |
this route. Because before that, people had only been interested in | 0:33:41 | 0:33:48 | |
climbing it? Exactly, and he said to himself, I think it is possible to | 0:33:49 | 0:33:50 | |
ski down this route. Saudin became known for skiing the | 0:33:51 | 0:34:19 | |
impossible, and Jeremie decided to attempt became slope. It has been 50 | 0:34:20 | 0:34:26 | |
years since he was here to ski for the first time. | 0:34:27 | 0:35:05 | |
He wants to show that skiing has progressed, and for a long time it | 0:35:06 | 0:35:11 | |
didn't. Steep skiing was popular for 20 years in the mid-80s, and then it | 0:35:12 | 0:35:15 | |
was trying to get down the mountain in the safest possible way. The | 0:35:16 | 0:35:20 | |
original steep skiers use the windscreen wiper technique, jumping | 0:35:21 | 0:35:26 | |
back and forth. Basically trying to find the safest way to get down the | 0:35:27 | 0:35:27 | |
mountain. I like to ski fast, and I've been | 0:35:28 | 0:35:54 | |
doing that for ages now. When I was a kid, we were going up to the | 0:35:55 | 0:35:58 | |
summit of these mountains, and we wanted to go the fastest we can, and | 0:35:59 | 0:36:02 | |
to be the first down to the chalet, so that was always the game. | 0:36:03 | 0:36:10 | |
Speed you ski on the gradients, the risk looks so high. How do you | 0:36:11 | 0:36:15 | |
minimise the risk? It is the preparation. There is a lot of | 0:36:16 | 0:36:20 | |
tension, because you are waiting a really long time to get those | 0:36:21 | 0:36:25 | |
perfect conditions, and you are putting the pressure on yourself. I | 0:36:26 | 0:36:32 | |
won't deny it is dangerous, but he is at such a level, he knows what | 0:36:33 | 0:36:36 | |
he's doing. He is not unnecessary risks. People at the top of their | 0:36:37 | 0:36:41 | |
game, they have got such a feel for the mountain. The reason why we | 0:36:42 | 0:36:47 | |
climb at first this mountain, at least we are all aware about the | 0:36:48 | 0:36:52 | |
steepness, the snow, and then we can see how much snow is sticking to the | 0:36:53 | 0:37:00 | |
ice at every aspect. All of the elements you need to study to know | 0:37:01 | 0:37:05 | |
it's safe? Yes, and to know how fast you could ski this route. The choice | 0:37:06 | 0:37:10 | |
you have to make on the mountain, if you take the wrong decision, | 0:37:11 | 0:37:16 | |
sometimes it can underpin a really bad situation. | 0:37:17 | 0:37:33 | |
It is overconfidence, I think. When you lose one ski, especially on the | 0:37:34 | 0:38:04 | |
ice, when it is super steep, you can't do anything. And on that | 0:38:05 | 0:38:09 | |
gradient, at that speed, if you catch, you can start to tumble, and | 0:38:10 | 0:38:14 | |
you won't stop? Yes. We are just playing close to a certain line, | 0:38:15 | 0:38:19 | |
where you can have high consequences, and if you are close | 0:38:20 | 0:38:22 | |
to that line a lot of the time, you have those experiences. | 0:38:23 | 0:38:29 | |
If you are able to learn from this mistake, it is the best experience | 0:38:30 | 0:38:33 | |
you can have on the mountain. After that, I was telling to myself that I | 0:38:34 | 0:38:37 | |
need to go back home, to take a rest, to learn from this | 0:38:38 | 0:38:43 | |
experience,... And to process it? Exactly, and then to come back, and | 0:38:44 | 0:38:48 | |
we did that with success, so I am super happy. | 0:38:49 | 0:38:58 | |
You've worked with some of the best skiers in the world. Put Jeremie | 0:38:59 | 0:39:04 | |
Lane context with those. Just how good is he? In the environment he is | 0:39:05 | 0:39:11 | |
in, which is the big, big mountain, at the moment, I don't think there | 0:39:12 | 0:39:16 | |
is anyone who can touch him. I think the most impressive thing I have | 0:39:17 | 0:39:20 | |
witnessed an skis is possibly the descent he did on the Gabba horn, | 0:39:21 | 0:39:29 | |
and it is like the days where it is in a condition to ski so few and far | 0:39:30 | 0:39:33 | |
between. We had the discussion if he should ski this line or not, and in | 0:39:34 | 0:39:38 | |
my opinion, it was too risky for me, and he was still taking it. It's | 0:39:39 | 0:39:44 | |
opening also my eyes. Not many people would have skied it, and I'm | 0:39:45 | 0:39:51 | |
pretty certain no one would have skied it at the speed he did. | 0:39:52 | 0:40:31 | |
He once dominant most scared he has ever been an skis were stood on one | 0:40:32 | 0:40:37 | |
of those Alaskan peaks. And that puts it in perspective, because in | 0:40:38 | 0:40:40 | |
Alaska you have huge amounts of soft snow. What Jeremie is doing is | 0:40:41 | 0:40:48 | |
skiing steeper harder snow twice as fast. We have arrived at the end of | 0:40:49 | 0:40:52 | |
the show, but we just have time for Ski Social. We asked you to send in | 0:40:53 | 0:40:56 | |
your pictures, and you did in abundance. What we were not expected | 0:40:57 | 0:41:01 | |
was the artwork, and I love these because I appeared to be having more | 0:41:02 | 0:41:05 | |
fun than you. But look at the smile on my face, and I have obviously had | 0:41:06 | 0:41:12 | |
a really big lunch! Photorealistic. You have also been sending in your | 0:41:13 | 0:41:15 | |
videos as well, and it is great to see you starting your kids so young. | 0:41:16 | 0:41:19 | |
Archie has clearly inherited the speed gene. And Ted appeared to have | 0:41:20 | 0:41:27 | |
been inspired by last week's dry slope feature, he has gone DIY on | 0:41:28 | 0:41:32 | |
us. Ten out of ten for creativity, keep sending us your photos and | 0:41:33 | 0:41:34 | |
videos, and don't forget your questions. Does use the hashtag: The | 0:41:35 | 0:41:40 | |
first question this week, a lot of people were confused by your, last | 0:41:41 | 0:41:44 | |
week in the slalom that the coaches set the courses. A lot of people | 0:41:45 | 0:41:48 | |
wondering if that is fair. If you had a standard course set like you | 0:41:49 | 0:41:51 | |
having downhill, you would lose the progressive element of that | 0:41:52 | 0:41:55 | |
discipline, so what happens is they take the top 15 skiers, the coaches | 0:41:56 | 0:41:58 | |
are drawn at random at the beginning of the season, so if David Ryding | 0:41:59 | 0:42:03 | |
keeps skiing well, we could have a British course set next season. | 0:42:04 | 0:42:08 | |
Fantastic news. Sam wants to know how Deuchar von ice, he feels like | 0:42:09 | 0:42:11 | |
he is just sliding. I feel a demonstration coming on. | 0:42:12 | 0:42:17 | |
Three tips for you for carving on ice. Practical, technical and | 0:42:18 | 0:42:23 | |
psychological. Make sure your edges are sharp enough, I do take your | 0:42:24 | 0:42:27 | |
skis to the ski shop, or sharpen them yourself. Secondly, | 0:42:28 | 0:42:32 | |
technically, make sure you are stood in the right position. Try to avoid | 0:42:33 | 0:42:37 | |
too much pivot or steering movement with your ski. Thirdly, | 0:42:38 | 0:42:42 | |
psychological. You have got to have faith that your skis are going to | 0:42:43 | 0:42:47 | |
grip. You have to have faith to lean them over on an edge, otherwise they | 0:42:48 | 0:42:53 | |
will not carve. Hopefully that has answered your | 0:42:54 | 0:42:57 | |
question, Sam. I'm afraid that's all we've got time for this week. We | 0:42:58 | 0:42:58 | |
will be back next week from kits COMMENTATOR: And he's gone! Oh, my | 0:42:59 | 0:43:10 | |
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that's for everyone. For more information, | 0:43:56 | 0:44:08 | |
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