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...