My money’s on Shiffrin catching up. But what we’ll all have to remember when/if that happens is that that doesn’t take away from Vonn’s accomplishments. They’re two very different women and athletes with very different approaches — both extraordinary in their own ways. Read more

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That’s definitely one take, though you could argue a counter-productive one – I don’t think the research bears out that anger/bitterness over failure is a powerful motivator (more than, say, joy of excelling in the practice at what you love), and long-term it can be detrimental to performance. That being said, it’s… Read more

Thanks — and same here! Read more

10/10 going to use that in future pieces. Thanks. Read more

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I’m rolling my eyes at you too. But thanks for that, you’re absolutely right. Read more

For sure. The confidence/anxiety issue is more the question, I think. Read more

Yeah, in my household we also had the conversation of “Is she pushing too much and going to peak too soon?” Then that couple of weeks happened. Agree being plain old worn out must have been part of it. I’m not sure I believe she was testing herself to the point of exhaustion to see how she’d fare at the Olympics,… Read more

Oh good Lord — I do know that, I swear. Thanks for catching. We’ll change. Read more

Actually, that’s (almost) a thing. Parallel events are now on the World Cup tour and are coming to the next Winter Olympics too. TBD on whether you can stab your opponent on the way down though. Read more

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Hey, thanks! That’s so nice to hear. Read more

The unending patience of ski racing parents always astonishes me. I still remember how my own parents would wake up at sunrise to drive me the two or three hours I needed to get to a race, then stand around all day just to watch me on the hill for a minute and a half. And that was on a suuuuper low level. The time,… Read more

So true! He’s another great example. I was at Kitzbuehl for the races there in 2016 and saw him pull off the same thing, coming in second in the super-G. (I wrote about it over on Powder, shhh: http://www.powder.com/stories/will-warhorse-pull-ahead/) Read more

Hey, good catch on the video. But I got the information in the story from here at the Championships, including from a press conference (where unfortunately they couldn’t give that much information, since the incident is under investigation by the police and military), as well as from this statement, released to the… Read more

Thanks for the kind words! And I hear you. The feather-on-a-stick bit was one of the most absurd things I’ve ever seen in a sports documentary (I kept waiting for it to become relevant somehow: maybe the guy doing it was an athlete training for the Streif I’d never seen before?). Still, there’s a dearth of… Read more