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She might, still to early to tell. Her form is good and it will get better as season goes. This might be her year. Anna Fenninger, now Veith is back .... Austrians always have good skiers. I'll tell you more after I see how they perform in Soelden.

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In an interview, Ms Shiffrin said she was planning on running the downhill in Lake Louise in early December.

Historically, the dominant technical skiers, Stenmark, Tomba, have not done well in the speed events. The only one to really come close has been Anja Parsons of Sweden who managed to win a few in each discipline.

It seems foolish to risk dominance in the salom for downhill which has a much higher injury rate. At her present rate of winning, she should just continue to focus on technical events and go after Stenmark's all time victory total of 86

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1st of 2 downhills at Lake Louise for the Women start today.
Shiffrin is #31. It will be interesting to see how she handles a speed event.


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Shiffrin is a BEAST for sure. A technical beast, so her downhill acumen remains to be discovered. Also, she is nowhere near LV's size. Vonn is a monster. As previously noted, Shiffrin is very young and still developing as a skier at a very fast rate. IMHO, Shiffrin's potential is HUGE.

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Does anyone know how to watch this on a computer? It's on NBC. the downhill in canuckistan.

Burke mountain academy girl!

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NBC Sports App last week - K-ton World Cup. Live and replays. Enjoy!

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I love watching her race -- the best technical skier I've seen on the women's side, at least since I've been paying attention (my awareness of ski racing probably dates back to around the time Killy ruled the '68 Olympics on the men's side, although I was a little kid then and didn't really know anything).

Three more victories (7 straight in slalom?) and it's plain she can race GS with the best as well. I don't see any reason she cannot improve at the speed events -- she's not big but she's not tiny either, and adding a little mass, a little more strength, and . . . who knows?

There are not many who ever have the career she had before she hit 21. As a great sports poet once said, it's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. But she's a hell of a ski racer right now and I hope we'll be watching her for some time to come.