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    Lindsey Vonn asks permission to enter men’s downhill race

    PATRICK LANG
    ZURICH — Reuters
    Published Saturday, Oct. 06 2012, 2:32 PM EDT
    Last updated Saturday, Oct. 06 2012, 4:42 PM EDT

    American Lindsey Vonn has asked the International Ski Federation (FIS) if she can enter a men’s downhill race in Canada this season in an attempt to revamp the image of women’s alpine skiing.

    The four-times overall World Cup champion sent a letter to men’s race director Gunter Hujara, asking him about the possibility of competing in the men’s downhill at Lake Louise, Alberta, where the first speed events of the season are taking place.

    At this time, the women will be in Aspen, Colorado, racing a slalom and giant slalom.

    Hujara and the Alpine Board considered the matter in Zurich this week during the FIS Autumn Meetings.

    “We have been talking about it but no decision has been taken yet, it’s a matter that the FIS Council has to examine during its next meeting in November,” said Norway’s Atle Skaardal, the women’s World Cup race director.

    “It’s necessary to go through the rules to see if there is a way to do this and also a reason to do it.

    “It’s complicated because no racer is supposed to ski on a race course a week prior to his or her own competition. If Lindsey Vonn could train and compete with the men in November, she would have a huge advantage on her rivals the following week during the women’s races on the same course,” Skaardal added.

    The winner of 53 World Cup events in her career including 26 downhills, Vonn is the second most successful women’s downhill specialist behind Austria’s Annemarie Moser-Proell, who won 36 downhills between 1970 and 1980.

    Last year, the American also became only the fourth woman to triumph in all five disciplines of modern alpine ski racing: downhill, slalom, giant slalom, Super-G and combined.

    She narrowly failed to break the benchmark of 2,000 points set by Austria’s Hermann Maier in the 2000 World Cup, scoring 1,980 points to win her fourth overall crystal globe.

    Experts believe the 2010 Olympic champion may lose as much as five seconds to the fastest men.

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    she has a penis now, bummer
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    Quote Originally Posted by scottyb View Post
    she has a penis now, bummer
    Hermaphrodites are so hot right now.
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    How will her being 5 sec slower than everyone else "revamp the image of women's alpine skiing"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by telebobski View Post
    How will her being 5 sec slower than everyone else "revamp the image of women's alpine skiing"?
    Read it again. The article says she will be 5 seconds slower than the fastest men. That means she will only be 4.5 seconds slower than the slowest men.
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    But, doesn't she know that? How would putting in such a slow time look good for her? Hmmmmmmm...........she's up to something.....

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    and next, there will be talk that Tiger is not satisfying her, and she will officially come out of the closet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by schindlerpiste View Post
    and next, there will be talk that Tiger is not satisfying her, and she will officially come out of the closet.
    That would definitely revamp the image in a most positive way!
    It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.

    I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.

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    She has my permission as long as the downhill men's can enter her...
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    Let her if she wants.

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    let her run the full Birds course
    ROLL TIDE ROLL

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    Quote Originally Posted by montanaskier View Post
    let her run the full Birds course
    I'd like to see that. The LL course not so much.

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    She's doing Tiger?

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    She's doing Tiger?
    Wait what?

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    ^^^
    That is, absolutely, the word around town.
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    I would watch for sure. I think this should be viewed more as a polite "you bitches suck," to the other women than a, "I think I can compete with the dudes." She's a level above her competition and is finding ways to keep herself motivated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benny Profane View Post
    She's doing Tiger?
    It's a step up from Robby Tebow.

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    5 seconds behind the leaders will put her about a second and change off the meat of the pack.....
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    Ah yes...Lindsey Vonn....she has nice form.

    Nice form skiing, too!

    The FIS, being a pretty conservative organization run by european men, will most certainly deny her request.....but they could surprise us !!!!

    I find the estimate of her being FIVE FULL SECONDS behind the top men a little hard to swallow. Races are won by hundredths of a second...five full seconds might as well be a century.

    Damn....she sure is graceful on the boards, though!!!!



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    She's good, but not that good. She's consistently winning on the women's circuit, but she's not blowing the competition out of the water by any means. If she wants to do it, let her do it. It's not going to help her cause. All it is going to do is have quantifiable data that says, she as fast (maybe) as the slowest men. Not a good way to revamp women's skiing.
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    26.11.2011 - Results WC DH Lake Louise
    Rank Name Nation Total FIS pnts
    1 CUCHE Didier SUI 1:47.28 0.00
    2 FEUZ Beat SUI 1:47.34 0.74
    3 REICHELT Hannes AUT 1:47.36 0.99
    4 BAUMANN Romed AUT 1:47.63 4.34
    5 KROELL Klaus AUT 1:47.75 5.83
    6 CLAREY Johan FRA 1:47.91 7.81
    6 THEAUX Adrien FRA 1:47.91 7.81
    8 PUCHNER Joachim AUT 1:47.96 8.43
    9 MILLER Bode USA 1:48.01 9.05
    10 STREITBERGER Georg AUT 1:48.06 9.67
    11 JANSRUD Kjetil NOR 1:48.26 12.15
    12 HUDEC Jan CAN 1:48.33 13.02
    13 PARIS Dominik ITA 1:48.36 13.39
    14 SVINDAL Aksel Lund NOR 1:48.53 15.50
    15 BERTRAND Yannick FRA 1:48.59 16.24
    16 SANDER Andreas GER 1:48.67 17.23
    17 POISSON David FRA 1:48.69 17.48
    17 HOFFMANN Ambrosi SUI 1:48.69 17.48
    19 ROMAR Andreas FIN 1:48.71 17.73
    20 GISIN Marc SUI 1:48.73 17.98
    21 RAICH Benjamin AUT 1:48.76 18.35
    22 OLSSON Hans SWE 1:48.80 18.84
    23 INNERHOFER Christof ITA 1:48.84 19.34
    24 SULLIVAN Marco USA 1:48.88 19.84
    25 FRANZ Max AUT 1:48.90 20.08
    25 DIXON Robbie CAN 1:48.90 20.08
    27 GANONG Travis USA 1:48.91 20.21
    28 JANKA Carlo SUI 1:48.92 20.33
    29 ZURBRIGGEN Silvan SUI 1:48.93 20.46
    30 FAYED Guillermo FRA 1:48.96 20.83
    31 KRAMER Manuel AUT 1:49.04 21.82
    32 STECHERT Tobias GER 1:49.05 21.94
    33 FILL Peter ITA 1:49.08 22.32
    34 THOMSEN Benjamin CAN 1:49.12 22.81
    35 FISHER Erik USA 1:49.19 23.68
    35 KEPPLER Stephan GER 1:49.19 23.68
    37 KROELL Johannes AUT 1:49.26 24.55
    38 MAPLE Wiley USA 1:49.27 24.67
    39 GRUENENFELDER Tobias SUI 1:49.35 25.66
    39 KOSTELIC Ivica CRO 1:49.35 25.66
    41 SPORN Andrej SLO 1:49.38 26.03
    42 JERMAN Andrej SLO 1:49.39 26.16
    43 KUENG Patrick SUI 1:49.41 26.41
    44 GUAY Erik CAN 1:49.42 26.53
    45 KLINE Bostjan SLO 1:49.48 27.27
    46 HELIE Louis-Pierre CAN 1:49.52 27.77
    47 MAYER Matthias AUT 1:49.59 28.64
    48 DEFAGO Didier SUI 1:49.69 29.88
    49 HEEL Werner ITA 1:49.78 30.99
    50 LUEOEND Vitus SUI 1:49.81 31.37
    51 WEIBRECHT Andrew USA 1:49.85 31.86
    52 HALBERT Kelby CAN 1:49.88 32.23
    53 CASSE Mattia ITA 1:50.02 33.97
    54 MARKIC Gasper SLO 1:50.24 36.70
    54 JAERBYN Patrik SWE 1:50.24 36.70
    56 PATSCHEIDER Hagen ITA 1:50.25 36.82
    57 MARSAGLIA Matteo ITA 1:50.40 38.68
    58 KRIZAJ Andrej SLO 1:50.49 39.80
    59 SEMPLE Ryan CAN 1:50.51 40.04
    59 PRIDY Conrad CAN 1:50.51 40.04
    61 ZRNCIC-DIM Natko CRO 1:50.69 42.28
    62 ROGER Brice FRA 1:50.78 43.39
    63 COOK Dustin CAN 1:51.13 47.73
    64 BJERKESTRAND Iver NOR 1:52.43 63.85
    65 CRAWFORD Douglas GBR 1:52.85 69.05
    66 SIROKI Tin CRO 1:53.60 78.35
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    I don't really care what she does, just keep posting pictures like this lindsey

    http://instagram.com/p/LXm62ZkTkC/

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    Let her run. I sort of feel for the poor schlubs that gets beat by her will have to live with it the rest of the year on tour, but not really.

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    Quote Originally Posted by njfreeskier View Post
    She's good, but not that good. She's consistently winning on the women's circuit, but she's not blowing the competition out of the water by any means. .
    Actually, she did blow the competion away in several DH's last year including in the DH at lake Louise,winning by nearly 2 seconds. http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_1946086 She's been absolutely dominant at LL over the last several years and skis on men'd DH equipment.

    I think she is probably closer to 2-3 seconds off the top men instead of a full 5 on a course like Lake Louise. She's a big girl by women's standards but is still giving up close to 50 lbs on many of the men's top DH'ers- Cuche wasn't tall at 5'9" but he was running @220lbs.

    I'd kind of like to see this happen to give her an ego check...
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