I can totally believe that. But now that he is using their product, it might make perfect sense to use it in their marketing.
Dalbello is the only other option that comes to my mind.
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Lange just went to a new blue (and Rossi a dark gray) this year which is actually a darker pigment. When I meet with Thor Verdonk, I will ask him about this and Marcel's pigment impaired white boot.
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PROGRAM CHANGE:
In agreement with all organizational partners, the jury has decided the following program: Thursday, the 20th Janner 11:30am: Final practice Friday, 21st. Janner, 11:30 am: Kitzbühel departure Saturday 22nd January 10:15/13:45: Chicken Combs Slalom Sunday, 23rd. January 13:30: Rooster comb departure ••• ⚠ PROGRAM CHANGE ⚠ In agreement with all partners, the Jury has approved the following programme: Thursday, Jan. 20th, 11:30 a.m.: Downhill training 2 Friday, Jan. 21st, 11:30 a.m.: Kitzbühel Downhill Saturday, Jan. 22nd, 10:15 a.m./1:45 p.m.: Hahnenkamm Slalom Sunday, Jan. 23rd, 1:30 p.m.: Hahnenkamm Downhill
Not sure what was "Breaking" - possibly the slalom was switched to Saturday.
- Thursday, Jan. 20th, 11:30 a.m.: Downhill Training 2
- Friday, Jan. 21st, 11:30 a.m.: Kitzbühel Downhill
- Saturday, Jan. 22nd, 10:15 a.m./1:45 p.m.: Hahnenkamm Slalom
- Sunday, Jan. 23rd, 1:30 p.m.: Hahnenkamm Downhill
Does anyone know the difference between the "Kitzbuhel Downhill" and the "Hahnenkamm Downhill"? Is the first one shorter? Do you still get your name on the gondola if you win on Friday?
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The Hahnenkammrennen is the "official" weekend: the DH and SL are used to determine the Sieger (champion) of the weekend's races. Back in the day it was just the one DH and SL for the weekend. This extra DH is just the "Kitzbühel Abfahrt," without the gravitas of being the official Hahnenkamm - even if the course is identical.
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So if you win your first time in Kitzbuhel on Friday, is your name going on a gondola?
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It's not unprecedented to have two full-length DH runs on the Streif. And that snow is hard AF - it can handle an extra go.
As to the lack of SG, that's anybody's guess - though it could dovetail with the FIS' move toward making a more "equitable" distribution of speed versus tech events. And yes, the second DH is an official World Cup points race.
It's WC allright, unsure if you get a gondola. You did for the SG:s though as well as the SL.
Here's Hargin after his SL win in Kitz a few years ago.
Edit: Apparently they hand out gondolas a little freely to anyone they deem worthy:
Here's Hargin after his SL win in Kitz a few years ago.
Edit: Apparently they hand out gondolas a little freely to anyone they deem worthy:
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Well here’s the results of the training runs.
Goodness, Clarey is 41 years old!
Does Kilde just slow down at the end of his 2nd training run? (TRA 3, TRA1 was cancelled)
Training 3, about 2/3rds of normal course.
Blast from the past. Bode skis off the wall, 2008. Ties with Mario Scheiber 0.27 behind Didier Cuche.
Results from that race.
Goodness, Clarey is 41 years old!
Does Kilde just slow down at the end of his 2nd training run? (TRA 3, TRA1 was cancelled)
Training 3, about 2/3rds of normal course.
Blast from the past. Bode skis off the wall, 2008. Ties with Mario Scheiber 0.27 behind Didier Cuche.
Results from that race.
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Lisa is a bit different story. Surely she didn't win Kitz DH, SG or SL race, but she's from Kitzbuehel, and she won 3 medals on WCH last season, including being World Champion in mass start (first and only Austrian women and only second Austrian to be biathlon World champion), plus she won individual race overall WC globe last season. So she got extra present in shape of gondola. If she wouldn't be from Kitzbuehel, she would never get gondola, but then again, she didn't really got it for nothing either.
As for gondola for Kitzbuehel DH... I'm not 100% sure now, but I think you get gondola only for original Hahnenkamm rennnen, which is DH on Saturday, well Sunday this time, as Saturday will be SL day. So most likely only 2 gondolas will be named this year. Otherwise they are 3... one for SG, second for DH and third for SL. For SL you also get your own chair on Ganslern chairlift (chairlift leading to top of SL start).
Ah, being in a "biathlon country" she's not unfamiliar to me. Had no idea she's from Kitz and that explains it. Still a bit "odd" though. But I get it. They wanted to honor her in the abslote best way they could think of, so they gave her a gondola.
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In what year will they run out of gondola cabins to name?
I take it limited or no fans this year?
A look at the course-
I take it limited or no fans this year?
A look at the course-
@James no idea, but it doesn't seem there's not that many "empty" gondolas when you ride up and watch what's coming against you. But I have never been counting how many empty ones there really is. It might be, they will start adding names to the other side, as currently name is only on "front" side. 
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Two names on one! Noo…
Going to have to put in another gondola!
If it comes to it they’ll have to separate out something. Maybe put slaloms in a different area. You can’t do it by date as Franz Klammer will be out in the field with the old guys. Can’t have that.
Meanwhile, found this-
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As a biathlete, Lisa Hauser doesn’t race the Streif. But in her sport, she is one of the very best. After winning the World Championships in Pokljuka, Lisa received a gondola dedicated to her too – as all athletes of the Kitzbuehler Ski Club do who are Olympic or world champion.
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hahnenkamm.com
Going to have to put in another gondola!
If it comes to it they’ll have to separate out something. Maybe put slaloms in a different area. You can’t do it by date as Franz Klammer will be out in the field with the old guys. Can’t have that.
Meanwhile, found this-
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As a biathlete, Lisa Hauser doesn’t race the Streif. But in her sport, she is one of the very best. After winning the World Championships in Pokljuka, Lisa received a gondola dedicated to her too – as all athletes of the Kitzbuehler Ski Club do who are Olympic or world champion.
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NEW NAMES ON THE HAHNENKAMM GONDOLA
Not one but two gondolas of the famous Hahnenkammbahn are proudly displaying new names!
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Yeah and most of top guys aren't too happy about it. I actually agree with this. Sure "old" one was more dangerous, I guess, but it doesn't mean you need to push without thinking, becayse track allows you to do it in one corner, even though in next corner you crash then. And as Feuz said, you don't really change old classics.
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If anything it looks like a setup for more crashes, rather than trying to prevent them like they explain in the video.
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