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Monday, January 26, 2009
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SRCmag.ca
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the source for canadian snowsports news
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| Editor's Desk |
 This past weekend showed the real beauty of snowsports and its occasional
ugliness.
Ugliness:
For those who watched Daniel Albrecht's crash on the famed Hahnenkamm in a men's downhill training run, I'm sure still feel ill this morning (I know that I do). If you were fortunate enough to not see the crash, YouTube has an entry, but I warn you, it's ugly. Don't ruin your Monday morning.
We're all guilty of burying our heads in the sand on this - the most sensitive of subjects - athlete's safety. They crash, we talk about it for a few days, they they go back to crashing, burning and visiting nearby hospitals. The FIS must find a balance between entertainment and risk because Kitzbuhel has gotten out of control.
It's time to re-examine the "Super Bowl" of ski racing... the Hahnenkamm.
Beauty:
It was an incredible few days for Canadian snowsports, headlined with a podium sweep on home snow at Mont Gabriel, in the men's moguls. Then the Canucks scored XGames victories by both Sara Burke (women's superpipe) and Stan Hayer (men's ski cross) while alpine skier Marie-Michele Gagnon launched into the top 10 in a women's giant slalom in Cortina to score her first World Cup points. Canadian snowboard veteran Jasey-Jay Anderson and his sophomore teammate Matt Morison finished 1-2 in the men's parallel giant slalom at the World Championships. Way to go guys.
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SRC CONTEST
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PODIUM SWEEP: MONT GABRIEL
Marquis paces historic day for mogul skiers
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Vincent Marquis (centre) shared the podium with his teammates Alex Bilodeau (left) and current World Champion JP Rousseau. (Photo - Mike Ridewood, CSFA)
STE-ADELE,
Quebec - Vincent Marquis of Quebec City led Canada's first-ever sweep
of the men's moguls podium at a freestyle skiing World Cup on Saturday.
Marquis
scored 25.77 to capture gold in frigid conditions. Alex Bilodeau of
Rosemere, Que., won silver with 25.50 and Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau of
Drummondville, Que., scored 25.39 for the bronze, leaving 2006 Olympic
champion Dale Begg-Smith, who won the qualifying round, back in fifth
place.
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KITZBUEHEL'S DARK SIDE:
Hahnenkamm claims another victim
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SRC COMMENTARY
Coma. The word send shivers down our spines.
Kitzbuehel. The word evokes passion, legend, jubilation and defiance. The word epitomizes ski racing.
This
weekend, those two words were intertwined as rising Swiss star Daniel
Albrecht, just 25, took a brutal physical pounding at the bottom of
Kitzbuehel's infamous Streif downhill course.
OTHER KITZBUEHEL HEADLINES:
KITZBUEHEL: Janyk, White top 10 in Kitzbuehel SL
KITZBUEHEL: Defago rules the Hahnenkamm, Guay 15th
KITZBUEHEL: Kroell wins SG, Canadians off pace
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THE PHILOSOPHER QUEEN: Kathy Kreiner's Olympic Strategy
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Before
the biggest race of their lives, Kerrin Lee-Gartner had alone time with
her husband. Kathy Kreiner, on the other hand, had coffee with a
philosophy student. While those divergent distractions helped put the two
Canadian skiers in the right frame of mind to win historic Olympic gold
medals, Kreiner concedes that a year from now, at the 2010 Games
in Whistler, those strategies might not work for Emily Brydon or Erik
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SRC "2010 ISSUE" - On sale January 28th
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 Who will become the next legend of skiing? Who will seize the moment and make Olympic history?
In the "2010 Issue" SRC magazine looks closely at the athletes chances and at the preparedness of the Olympic venues, the challenges they face in the next 12 months and more importantly beyond. In "And then what?" SRC cross-country writer Tom McCarthy tells the remarkable story of the genesis of the Whistler Olympic Park and looks at what will be left behind in the Callaghan Valley. Michel Beaudry examines the Whistler Mountain alpine venues and the local athletes' chances in "Whistler Hosts the Planet". And Brian Stemmle, himself nearly an Olympic champion (ahh, that darned snow snake!) offers some advice for the athletes in "Media Matters". That, and much more in the SRC 2010 Issue.
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