I just watched the replay on Outside. Might require a subscription for the replay. Even before I knew it had been called off gave up watching after bib 21 or 22 because it was too depressing to see how no one else was going to finish within two seconds and probably even more of Sejersted. The article in SkiRacing.com said weather should be good on Saturday so hoping for a good race.
Would that not be Birds of Prey?
You could say he was skiing with a vengeance!
BoP is distinguished by the sheer altitude and its effect on Vo2 max; at the start, Vo2 is reduced by 20% and by the finish at 2700m, they are still in about 10-12% deficiency. (That's 1000m ~above~ the FIS altitude limit for x-country racing)! But both Avon and Ajax are short courses, only about 750m vertical, substandard to FIS minimums.
Where? Who has 1000m of vertical with the appropriate terrain? Snowbasin? Vail? Snowmass? Copper? Genuinely curious how a downhill could/should be setup in the Rockies resorts, regardless of other infrastructure.
Snowbasin‘s Grizzly DH is close to 1000m but still is less than 1.5 minutes.
North America needs an epic, a legendary, something that racers quote more fear than fun. It's amusing that every January, my non-skiing acquaintances ask me about some "SuperBowl of skiing" and I reply that it's a village on the other side of the planet.
That first ridge looks like Beijing Olympics, but with snow on the sides. Like there, that’s a lotta A netting needed.
