“Rise”: https://amzn.to/3uKX5kO She’s not the person I thought she was. Not that I had a huge desire to read this book. I just reserved it at the library and when another book I was reading lost my attention I decided to skim “Rise,” but I got hooked. Lindsey’s image… Beautiful untouchable champion. Smiling and fabulous […]

Re: More Mikaela Bob,  that’s an excellent and very understandable analysis of the conditions and the evolution of alpine technical racing. Having spent a fair amount of time in the Chinese ski resorts in the same general region that these events are being held, I can confirm the snow is very different. It can be […]

It’s the manmade snow. Slalom racing used to be completely different, then again, so were the Olympics. The Olympics used to be held in winter burgs with nearby mountains with natural snow. They even used to be held in mountain towns, like St. Moritz, or Squaw Valley, even Lake Placid. Now the winter Olympics are […]

And now the odds of her winning five gold medals are history, her odds of winning ANY gold medals are very long. Makes you hate American media. They need a face for the Olympics, they decided it was Shiffrin, just like they decided it was Bode Miller back in 2006 in Torino. And not delivering, […]