Women’s World Cup 2021

[4ster]

Begins next weekend...

Shiffy is sitting out Solden due to “tweaked back”. Hope she is ok, long term. If anyone needed to nail that race and get in a groove it was MS.

Shiffrin's Return on Hold, As She Announces Tweaked Back

It's been eight months since two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin has stepped in the FIS Ski World Cup start gate. The World Cup opener at Soelden, Austria on Oct. 17th was set to be her return to competition, but on Friday Mikaela announced on social media that she will sit the season...

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Very disappointing as I have so little going due to COVID.

Bummer Shiffrin won’t be racing but GS can still be exciting. Looking forward to the return of Stephanie Bruner...

 

[4ster]

For the women, Vail Daily had a look at the venues and Mikaela-

• Shiffrin has won at every site hosting a World Cup giant slalom or slalom this season, except for Lech/Zurs, which has not hosted the circuit since December 1994. Shiffrin was born March 13, 1995.

Mikaela Shiffrin gets 2020-21 World Cup slate

The International Ski Federation announced on Saturday that Saalbach, Austria, will host the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in 2025. Saalbach beat out Garmisch, Germany, and Crans Montana, Switzerland, and last hosted the championships in...

www.vaildaily.com

 

[James]

I guess they’ll make it to China this year. Sort of have to with the Olympics next year.
Shiffrin sitting out Soelden gives her basically a month to recover.

 

[S.H.]

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I guess they’ll make it to China this year. Sort of have to with the Olympics next year.
Shiffrin sitting out Soelden gives her basically a month to recover.

maybe more. Parallel is rough on the back, be interesting to see if she goes to Lech/Zurs. Wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see her until Levi.

 

[James]

maybe more. Parallel is rough on the back, be interesting to see if she goes to Lech/Zurs. Wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see her until Levi.

Good point. Seems ridiculous to have a separate venue just for parallel.
She could go hang out with her reindeer for a few weeks.

 

[Swede]

Parallell became quite a larger engagement with the new qualification rules. Lot of skiers. Big logistics. Not sure if Levi can/wants to handle that. Alternative move Levi SL to different (glaciere) location. Finns would be very unhappy. Perhaps no one else.

 

[James]

Parallell became quite a larger engagement with the new qualification rules. Lot of skiers. Big logistics. Not sure if Levi can/wants to handle that. Alternative move Levi SL to different (glaciere) location. Finns would be very unhappy. Perhaps no one else.

Good point.
If ever there was a time to just eliminate it, this season was it. Cuts down on all that traveling.

 

[4ster]

GS at Solden without Shiffrin should still be great! No Rebensberg but we still have Brignone, Worley, Robinson, Bassino, Goggia, Vlhova & Hrovat. Is RagMo back?,... Who else? Again Bruner is returning so hoping she stays healthy.

 

[4ster]

Women’s start list...

FIS Livetiming - al5001

live.fis-ski.com

I am going with
1. Robinson
2. Vlhova
3. Bassino
Torn between Brignone & Bassino but going with Bassino because of her earlier start. Would luv to pick Holdener but wasn’t she recently injured?
Darkhorse Bruner or Robnik

 

[S.H.]

Alice/Worley/Vlhova

Based on not much ... Alice/Vlhova seem like they've had good training, Tessa has great history on the hill ... we'll see.

 

[4ster]

Alice/Worley/Vlhova

Based on not much ... Alice/Vlhova seem like they've had good training, Tessa has great history on the hill ... we'll see.

Yeah, Worley would be my emotional pick but l had to go with youth over experience

 

[Jack skis]

Would be nice to see some skiers from the USA start in the top 30, but without MS we just gotta hope for some (any) US women moving up in the results. Go for it Paula, Nina, A.J., and Keeley.

US Starters & bib numbers: A.J. Hurt 35; Nina O'Brien 40: Keely Cashman 44; Paula Moltzan 62. There are 69 entered in the race.

 

[dbostedo]

Seems like you might only need to watch the first 6 racers....

 

[Snowflake2420]

Does anyone have details on how to watch in the US? I’m not seeing it come up on NBC Gold as a scheduled event.

 

[S.H.]

Does anyone have details on how to watch in the US? I’m not seeing it come up on NBC Gold as a scheduled event.

Get a VPN and stream from europe; no US broadcast/streaming.

Chance of getting a eurosport (or similar) feed uploaded to youtube; try and watch before it gets taken down. There's usually a copy of the eurosport feed in english or russian? (i don't speak russian, i'm guessing) on youtube for a couple of days before it gets taken down.

 

[4ster]

Does anyone have details on how to watch in the US? I’m not seeing it come up on NBC Gold as a scheduled event.

TV coverage for 2020-2021?

Any word on where we can watch the upcoming FIS WC season in the US? NBC is silent so far and any mention of a Snow Pass renewal is missing. Can’t believe how Balkanized the global coverage TV rights seem to be.

www.pugski.com

I am keeping my fingers crossed that I can find it on Youtube. There was a pretty reliable Russian youtube channel a few years ago, not so much last year.
If anyone finds anything, please post it here or in the https://www.pugski.com/threads/tv-coverage-for-2020-2021.20896/ thread.

 

[4ster]

Seems like you might only need to watch the first 6 racers....

At first glance it may seem that way but there are a lot of good skiers on the first page (Goggia, Liensberger, Hrovat, Bucik, Alphand etc. even Gut-Behrami) & who knows if someone can pop in from late depending on conditions.
I have been looking at the webcam the past couple of days & looks like the fog has been in & out.

 

[James]

I take it this is the pitch of Soelden and they start upper left? (not a current photo)

Vhlova
Brignone
Robinson

Wildcard- Meta Hrovat of Slovenia

Will Worley use the Rossi ski with the hold down bar or have they moved on?

http://medias3.fis-ski.com/pdf/2021/AL/5001/2021AL5001SLR1.pdf

 

[4ster]

here’s the link to the webcam
https://panocam.skiline.cc/rettenba...BiGbrDsAvJ-ZhdXrZMEBdyz6Ae1LThV066YxDlg8BdPb8

 

[James]

here’s the link to the webcam
https://panocam.skiline.cc/rettenba...BiGbrDsAvJ-ZhdXrZMEBdyz6Ae1LThV066YxDlg8BdPb8

Like Pink Floyd said, “...it’s all dark”

However, going into archive, this is what it looked like around 11am. Looks like a little fresh and a bunch o’ fog.