http://www.eurosport.com/alpineskiin...to847992.shtml

"Double Olympic speed champion Michaela Dorfmeister, who will retire
after next week's finals in Are, Sweden, started for fun in the slalom
but failed to qualify for the second leg after losing nearly six
seconds on the leader."

This is really interesting. Think about how talented you have to be in
order to be a threat in ALL events on the WC. Anja, Janica, Bode,
Beni, Daron (even though he does not ski the SL), ... These athletes
are really quite amazing. Could Michaela focus more on her SL and get
faster? Sure. But her speed events would suffer a bit. 6 seconds and
I'm sure she'd crush most masters SL racers. :-)
--
Marty