The Sölden half-mess

I didn't watch the women's GS and couldn't see the men either as it got canceled. This said, I might have watched post-race videos as I won't get up anymore in the wee hours of the day to admire a ski competition.

The women had a good race, without much surprise. As usual, Lindsey Vonn, did her best to steal the show by first announcing that she would finally take part in the race, little did she expect that she would fail to qualify.

At about the same time, in an October 24 interview with Sweden's Aftonbladet, she spoke about the women's circuit and stated: “I think it’s important for women to have equal rights, there definitely is a generalization that we are kind of second-rate on the World Cup. You know, we’re the pony show, and the men are the real race horses.”

Well, she's probably right and I'm afraid that the sport is globally too small, has not enough sponsorship money and fans to change this sad state of affair.

As for the men, well, too much wind canceled the affair on Sunday, but why in the world have the organizers not postponed the race to the following day (the weather forecast was improved by then) and waste precious time and obscene travel costs to athletes and their support team? 

This to me is inexcusable and show, if it needed to, that the international ski federation is ran by a bunch of incompetent, not-grounded bureaucrats.