Made myself a good Christmas gift this weekend (implicit meaning: Christmas comes only once a year!).
Got in all the biggest odds and biggest stakes.
The lost ones were actually conceptually losing ones: Moelgg still has work to do, though he didn't finish far from Richard; Nani DNF-ed but was far behind Luitz, who eventually scored a top10 placement prooving wrong my one-event-man definition of him.
Few words on Maze: she was out of the top10 but I saw flashes of the "old her", I think a mistake in run1, which stole her 1 second or so, mentally affected her even in run2, which was also affected by a long stop just befere her due to course manteinance. I believe January will be a great month for her, Kostelic-style.
I found Val d'Isere ladies GS very interesting: the slope his quite large with humps and inclinations of the ground left and right, and potentially allows to draw different courses, although the key passages are very similar to those of the DH (an hump after few gates and a compression mid-course were you need to bring speed before the final long flat). Unfortunately this year there was little snow, e.g. a hole formed at the height of the third gate and many athletes had difficult there (as said before Maze was stopped while they tried to adjust it).
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