Mike wrote:
* Anyone ever been to a world cup alpine event? Was it worth your while?
Did it interfere with your skiing?

Been to several, helps when they are in your home town. As far as
alpine events go, you're better off staying home and watching them on
TV. It's a lot of standing around for two or three minutes then *zip*
someone goes buy but since you don't know who it was or what their time
was, it gets boring pretty fast. Much nicer to see it on TV with a
cold beer, fireplace and split times on the screen.

But it's totally different for World Cup areials or half-pipe
competitions. There, you can see everything that's going on, see the
scoreboard and they announce the competitors. Something is always
going on and it's pretty exciting.

snoig