Olympic Men's Downhill

andyhull wrote:I'm going on what Graham Bell was saying about the course when he did his camera run, he says this ranks right up there with the toughest ever downhills.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/26098629

Not one for the snow plough methinks.

When I saw the course, I thought there was a good chance of an upset. As Admin identified, it is a very technical course ~ Olympic courses often are. Hence you quite often get Leonard Stock kind of results. The turns were very tight, and on thejumps, if the pre-jump wasn't quite right, the skiers took a lot of air.

Also, consider that the form skiers, have trained for many years on the Hahnenkamm, Lauberhorn etc. (I will be on the Lauberhorn in a couple of weeks!) Klammer had skied the Hahnenkamm, or sections of it, hundreds of times.

Switching to a newly cut course is a somewhat of a leveller.

In the event, it was just as well that a good early lead was built up by Mayer, since it ended up quite close.