Olympic Downhill

Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign
starting positions for the downhill?

C.

CParker wrote:

Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign
starting positions for the downhill?

If you give me a 50-words-or-less explanation I'll try to answer the question!

And don't look at the NBC website unless you want to know who won before you
watch it on TV.

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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:59:01 GMT, CParker
wrote:

Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign
starting positions for the downhill?


Yes.
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CParker wrote:

Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign
starting positions for the downhill?

I've seen plenty more ridiculous things than that just this afternoon.
But yes, the flip-30 format is ridiculous. What it isn't, is either
new, or confined to the Olympics. This is at least the third season
it's been around on the World Cup.

The Real Bev wrote:

CParker wrote:

Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign
starting positions for the downhill?


If you give me a 50-words-or-less explanation I'll try to answer the
question!

You could pick up the explanation on the FIS website. All the rules are
there. It won't be 50 words or less, but sorry, that's how it goes.

Mary Malmros wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:

CParker wrote:

Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign
starting positions for the downhill?

If you give me a 50-words-or-less explanation I'll try to answer the
question!

You could pick up the explanation on the FIS website. All the rules are
there. It won't be 50 words or less, but sorry, that's how it goes.

Foundation for Infinite Survival
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Frankfurt International School
....

OK, I found it. If I wanted to read that much I'd learn another language :-(

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The Real Bev wrote:

Mary Malmros wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:

CParker wrote:

Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign
starting positions for the downhill?


If you give me a 50-words-or-less explanation I'll try to answer the
question!


You could pick up the explanation on the FIS website. All the rules
are there. It won't be 50 words or less, but sorry, that's how it goes.


Foundation for Infinite Survival
Fish Information and Services
Frankfurt International School
...

OK, I found it. If I wanted to read that much I'd learn another
language :-(

Federation Internationale de Ski -- despite the name, has all its rules
in English as well as French and German.

The flip-30 format takes the top 30 racers in their final practice run,
and reverses the order in the actual race (so, 30th in the practice = 1
in the race and vice versa). It was done to keep people in their seats
after the top ten came down.

Mary Malmros wrote:

Federation Internationale de Ski -- despite the name, has all its rules
in English as well as French and German.

There's almost nothing I want to know bad enough to search a PDF file to find it.

The flip-30 format takes the top 30 racers in their final practice run,
and reverses the order in the actual race (so, 30th in the practice = 1
in the race and vice versa). It was done to keep people in their seats
after the top ten came down.

Thanks. That makes sense.

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The Real Bev wrote:

Mary Malmros wrote:

Federation Internationale de Ski -- despite the name, has all its
rules in English as well as French and German.


There's almost nothing I want to know bad enough to search a PDF file to
find it.

Then why'd you ask, baby bird? ;-)

The flip-30 format takes the top 30 racers in their final practice
run, and reverses the order in the actual race (so, 30th in the
practice = 1 in the race and vice versa). It was done to keep people
in their seats after the top ten came down.


Thanks. That makes sense.

Welcome.

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:07:08 -0800, The Real Bev
wrote:

Mary Malmros wrote:
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The flip-30 format takes the top 30 racers in their final practice
run, and reverses the order in the actual race (so, 30th in the
practice = 1 in the race and vice versa). It was done to keep people
in their seats after the top ten came down.

Thanks. That makes sense.

Welcome.

If I were doing it I'd draw names out of a hat. Do they think of it in the
same way as handicapping horses?

that is what they used to do.

Then they tried letting the individual competitors choose their start
position (with priority given according to World Cup rankings order).

Then they decided to change to the current system, party to keep
interest up, partly I suspect as a handicapping system, since the
courses are usually best for the early racers.

So now you get many of the top racers deliberately slowing down
through the last few turns in qualifying, just to get themselves an
earlier start - which will backfire if they slow down enough to be
outside the top 30.
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