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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Kandahar Day 2!!

So we ended up going to the super combi at at Chamonix, Les Houches today!  Pretty awesome to watch.  We didn't ski, and instead we hiked up the side of the DH course and watched from a sweet jump where racers crossed a ROAD in the middle of the course.  They were getting some pretty sick air!  Then we walked a little lower and saw a pretty fast section of the course just above the finish.  We watched the slalom from right at the finish line! That was cool!  Ivica Kostelic laid down a rediculous slalom run to go from like 23rd place to win it!  The other Croatian, Natko Zrncic dim had two amazing runs, and ended up second!  Pretty amazing to see two croatians on the podium together for the first time, and 1-2 no less!! Svindal was Svindal and cleaned up a prett solid 3rd.  He could have one but he made a pretty silly mistake in the slalom that cost him..oh well, he still got some pretty good points!  We had a pretty crazy drive to Thyon today too, lots of switchbacks and crazy drop offs.  We are going to do some training/free-skiing at Thyon tomorrow, get used to being at altitude.  Our hotel is at 2000 meters sooo, the race hill is pretty high!

1 comment:

  1. Great stuff, Cory! Can't wait to see those vids. Uncle Mike

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