Bormio- English Champs

Below is just a quick update of our results from Bormio!!

The Super-G was run on the lower section of the World Cup Mens Downhill course, which was a cool experience. Nick finished in the unlucky 4th position and Jamie in 5th. Our skiing was a big improvement from recent results, yet costly mistakes ruined top performances.

The first run of GS started off perfectly with Nick sitting in the top spot, 0.7 seconds clear of Jamie in 2nd, who was another 0.2 ahead of 3rd. Second run was a little shaky.... However Nick managed to hold his lead and take it by 1/100 of a second, and Jamie slid back into 3rd place just 0.2sec behind. A course hold before Nick gave the head wind a chance to whip up which wasn't so fast on the flats, but thats just life!!

Last day the Slalom. A great first run from Jamie put him into first place, 0.5 ahead of second. Nick a frustrating straddle. By a matter of one hundredth again, except this time the wrong way! Jamie went down into 2nd place, so so close! However he achieved a personal best Slalom score of 34 FIS points. 

I must say after watching the Bormio race in December on TV and then physically skiing the piste, it is disappointing how mellow the cameras make the steepness of the piste look. I know Hans Olsson has commented on the TV coverage on his blog and I just really hope this can be sorted out, so people can see how nuts some of these courses really are!!

Will keep you posted from our upcoming GS night race under lights!!!!!!!!! at Splugen, SUI.

Today was a nice chilled day off, which started with watching the Black Caps take down South Africa (free live stream) and chilling around the lake in Brunnen. Check out the photos below.

Nick- Super Schnell!

Bormio

Jamie- SL Podium

GS Podium

Sweet awards "pure diamond" ;)

Nick- Chilling on lake 

Jamie

ITA, SUI, LIE

Another  satisfying  week of racing has drawn to an end. I am writing this blog wrapped up in bed because it is freezing cold outside, due to the ‘Mini Cooper’ frontal system! – very pleased to have a couple of days off.

The week started off at Caspoggio, Italy, for two SG’s, with more frustrations caused by a persistent layer of fog coming in and out of the valley, the first day ended up being postponed. (Nick set to go, clicking  in and out of his bindings  5 times!!!) However, we fortunately were able to run two races the following day. Our performances were far from what we had wanted, so there is work to be done there!

Deja vu at Hoch-Ybrig, SUI...Fog only allowing one run of GS on the first day. Again we  managed to complete the two races on day two!  Nick was pumped to score a second best 30 point result finishing 7^th and Jamie bringing it home on his final run, placing 3^rd fastest, earning a credible 37 point result.

Onto Malbun for Liechtenstein’s National Champs, 1xSL and 1xGS . The course there was awesome, a steep pitch near the top and ‘a worker’ the rest of the way down. There were also some strong skiers present, with the likes of Switzerland’s WC athletes, Marc Bethod and Markus Vogel. In both races our skiing was not our best. You can’t win ‘em all!

For the next week or so we will be at home base, Brunnen, for some quality training!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out the video below from our perspective of the Super G at Caspoggio.