A tough race

While I enjoy watching the downhill, what I like most in Beaver Creek is the GS event. It's perhaps because Ligety manages to win most of the time? At any rate, and even though this wasn't largely reported in the media, the snow conditions, towards the end of the second run were quite challenging and made winning the whole contest that much more difficult.

The snow looked soft and the deteriorating course was slowing down the best in the last third. Ligety had to pull a super-human feat to regain control of the situation and climb on top of the podium. Another wonderful race by my Park City hero, Pinturault and Hischer, the other “usual suspects...”