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Old November 15th 06, 02:02 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine.moderated
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"snoig" wrote in message
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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.


I've found that the speed event are as you describe. But S and GS
have been pretty visible top to bottom when I've watched them live.

As with anything there is the air of excitement and festivity
attending a live event. The bonus with skiing is that you can see
every skier. On tv (in the US) they only show the top contenders and
Americans usually.

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