Apennine Wolves NOTE: Staffing attrition in the hospital where I work weekends has necessitated weekdays as well since mid-August. Losing...

Germany’s WAWC team has three racers whose seasons especially interest me: Lena Duerr, Kira Weidle, and Jess Hilzinger. Poised at...

Gallic rooster Because of retirements, France’s 2024 Equipe A roster will depend upon three somewhat unsettled mid-prime veterans, and a...

CROATIA Pine Marten - Croatia's national critter AFAICT, Croatia’s 2024 WAWC A-team will be the same as...

Canada’s 2024 WAWC front-line team will be fun and instructive Canadian horse to follow. Two grizzled veterans (27 and 29) are paired...

2 August 2023 -- These are original notes, unchanged from post-season 2021 and 2022. 2020 Overall and Discipline rankings were included...

One of the ski racing vocabulary terms I’ve learned is “prime years.” Whether by objective/scientific determination or because people say...

From what I’ve heard, Austria’s ski racers are the World Cup’s most highly-scrutinized by their fellow citizens. There’s a superb...

2022 WAWC POST notes – Competitors’ improvement potential. Category for young folks a few tenths from greatness. 7/21 original notes...

Marta Bassino is one of the ten best WAWC racers, regardless of how any other competitor’s performance is parsed or categorized. This is...

A fave IG is Ester Ledecka walking into a boy’s hockey game on a pond, and mischievously flicking away the puck. We see her grin as she...

WC 2022 POST-season notes - Heavy Hitters 7/21 original notes Calibiri 7/22 Post notes in Arial Narrow ( Calibri Italic here) 7/22 Post Additional notes—as available--in Bookman Old ( Calibri bold here) (Couldn’t figure out how to change fonts for this.) These are original notes, unchanged from post-season 2021 and 2022. 2020 Overall and Discipline rankings included for recent reference/context. Mikaela Shiffrin – Her own category. If she develops her speed over the su

Breezy Johnson is a ski racer’s ski racer. On boards at three; committed to racing shortly thereafter, her determination quickly seen by her coaches. Hundreds of FIS, Continental Cup, and other progressive level starts, then on the US National team at nineteen. Johnson’s a Speed skier—full-bore Downhiller whose Super G can improve with technical turn tuning. (She bid farewell to Giant Slalom because “the clock doesn’t lie.”) She was the world’s second best Downhiller for a mo

For me, an impressionable American, Michelle Gisin is a classic WC ski racer: composed yet loquacious, optimistic, dogged; from a skiing family, with two older WC siblings; recovered from knee injury; Swiss. She and Ragnhild Mowinckel strike me as especially cheerful determined spirits. My initial (2021) take on Michelle was that she perhaps relied too much upon talent, wasn’t a real fighter. I hadn’t yet recognized the level bedrock successful WC athletes unearth over years

Sofia Goggia. St. Moritz - December 2022 Six racers who finished top-10 Overall for 2021; one 13th who demands inclusion, IMO. As I...

Two mighty scamps to watch. Emma Aicher (19) is Germany’s budding hope for multi-disciplinary excellence, which vanished when Vicky...

I rely mostly upon these sources while shaping my opinions: watching races in their entirety, via the service with USA rights per event...