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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > Winter Olympics > Alpine Ski Racing: friendship ended w/Vonn, now Shiffrin is new best friend
 
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PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

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What's with the extra poles in the slalom? It's hard to tell how they know to ignore them.

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PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

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bawfuls posted:

Every "gate" is really a set of two gates, one the inside gate and the other the outside gate. There is a pair of blue sticks several meters apart and you have to ski between the two of them, then a pair of red sticks and you ski between those two, etc.

The combinations have these pairs set vertically with the fall line instead of horizontally, so instead of inside-outside the gates are more uphill-downhill. How close you want to get to any given gate depends on the relative position of other gates before and after it. So in some cases you want to be right on top of the gate and knock it down with your shins, but in other cases you're aiming no where near it because you're setting up for the next one.
This link is busted.

Here is a very poorly drawn picture. This is a birds-eye view, and the black line illustrates the direction you must go between each pair of gates. You can see why the fastest line often doesn't go close to one half of each pair.



Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Thanks!

African AIDS cum posted:

Slalom looks so much more impressive when filmed from behind like this. I wish they could get some kind of setup to shoot races this way, I think they were doing it for FIS races for a while at least because I remember a camera almost hitting a racer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRA-XB0nuyo

Yeah this is way cooler and more understandable than the front angles. Now that they've got the tech for it, they should really try it out.

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