Any Day, Any Race

[tirolski]

Shiffrin won again today, 60th slalom W, 97 total.

Mikaela Shiffrin wins World Cup Finals slalom to end wild, successful season

Mikaela Shiffrin earned a record-extending 97th Alpine skiing World Cup win.

sports.yahoo.com

Smooth turns are good for ya.

 

[Peter Minde]

Nice article about Aidan Ripp, Paul Smiths Bobcat. Swept all four men's races at USCSA championships last week.

https://www.pineknotnews.com/story/2024/03/15/sports/cloquet-grad-is-no-1/10880.html

 

[Peter Minde]

..... Aaaaand, Jessie Diggins winning the final race of the nordic World Cup, a 20 km mass start freestyle in Falun. She's your 2024 distance and overall World Cup champeen. Falun features the infamous Morderbakken, the only hill Bjorn Dæhlie said he was afraid of. Look how Jessie ramps the tempo up, going uphill, at around 40 seconds in.

Icing on the cake: Rosie Brennan and Novie McCabe taking 10th and 11th..... five 'Murrican women in the top 30. Something that never woulda happened 20 years ago.

 

[tirolski]

Since it’s a Sunday Saint Patrick’s Day I guess this goes here.

Skiing priests illustrate the ‘rest of the story’ about the Catholic Church

Walk into most parishes, rectories, seminaries, or other Catholic venues, and you won’t find a debating society or a MMA octagon cage – you’ll find family, with all the pathos but also all the joy it implies.

cruxnow.com

“...March 11-12 skiing competition for priests from the Alpine regions of Italy, France and Switzerland, which took place this year in the Italian resort city of Courmayeur, nestled at the foot of the towering Monte Bianco. By all accounts, the roughly 35 clerics who took part thoroughly enjoyed themselves, as did townspeople and visitors enchanted by the spectacle.”...

 

[Peter Minde]

Since it’s a Sunday Saint Patrick’s Day I guess this goes here.

Skiing priests illustrate the ‘rest of the story’ about the Catholic Church

Walk into most parishes, rectories, seminaries, or other Catholic venues, and you won’t find a debating society or a MMA octagon cage – you’ll find family, with all the pathos but also all the joy it implies.

cruxnow.com

“...March 11-12 skiing competition for priests from the Alpine regions of Italy, France and Switzerland, which took place this year in the Italian resort city of Courmayeur, nestled at the foot of the towering Monte Bianco. By all accounts, the roughly 35 clerics who took part thoroughly enjoyed themselves, as did townspeople and visitors enchanted by the spectacle.”...

Did they bless their skis before they started?

 

[tirolski]

Did they bless their skis before they started?

Don’t know?
Mighta blessed folks knees, as skis are easier to replace and/or heal than knees.

 

[Peter Minde]

Don't get me started about knees. Mine are 30 years older than the rest of me LOL. In other news, yesterday was Saint Gertrude's day; she's the patron saint of cats

 

[tirolski]

Don't get me started about knees. Mine are 30 years older than the rest of me LOL. In other news, yesterday was Saint Gertrude's day; she's the patron saint of cats

Going down the rabbit hole made me look up the patron saint of Dogs, Saint Roch.

Says he's also the patron saint of surgeons and knee problems, so he's got that going for him.

The Story of St. Roch, Patron Saint of Dogs and Dog Lovers

St. Roch, also known as St. Rocco, was a nobleman from Montpellier, France, the only son of the wealthy governor of the city.St. Roch (c. 1295–1327) was born with an unusual and deep red mark on his chest in the shape of a cross, a sign that the Blessed Virgin Mary had heard and answered his...

www.catholiccompany.com

 

[Ripitz]

World Cup sliders going for greatness at Van Ho today.

 

[tirolski]

Interesting article about race tactics of under 20 racers from Flathead land at Mt Vanhovenberg last week.

Ingelfinger Nabs Two More National Skiing Titles - Flathead Beacon

Hundreds of the nation’s fastest young cross country skiers descended on Lake Placid, New York, during the second week of March for the Junior National Cross Country Skiing Championships, the top competition for athletes under 20. Racers were subject to “every weather pattern imaginable in a...

flatheadbeacon.com