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Maze reigns in combined
Slovenian earns second gold medal, third overall at World Championships; Austrians round out podium. A27
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Slovenia’s Tina Maze tucks through a tight turn on the middle section of the women’s downhill course during the first race of the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships women’s combined event Monday at Beaver Creek. Maze won her third medal of the Championships, taking the gold in Monday’s race.
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Maze going strong with another gold medal Slovenian wins third World Championships medal By Shauna Farnell Special to the Daily
BEAVER CREEK — Tina Maze proved once again that she is the master of all skis and all racecourses, no matter the length, shape or condition. After leading the downhill portion of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships women’s combined, the Slovenian held on for the win, dicing through the slalom course and landing her third-straight medal in these Championships, the second gold. Already the most successful athlete in any sport in Slovenian history, the 31-yearold edged out Austrian veterans Nicole Hosp and Michaela Kirchgasser, who, respectively, took the silver and bronze medals. “It was a hard win today,” said Maze, who edged out Lara Gut by 0.02 seconds for the lead after the downhill portion of the race and was the last woman down the slalom course, which was softening throughout the race in the 45-degree weather, and managed to cross the finish line 0.22 seconds ahead for gold. “Today was one of those days where I felt not 100 percent, that I don’t know how it will go. It was hard starting 30th. The slope was getting a little bit of the sun, but that’s the way it is. It’s not every day that you win the races that you are not 100 percent hungry for.”
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Tina Maze competes in the slalom portion of the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships women’s combined in Beaver Creek on Monday. Maze won her second gold medal of the Championships and her third overall in just one week.
TURNING CARTWHEELS In spite of her weariness, Maze managed to step out of her skis and do a cartwheel in the finish area after her win. One of few racers in these Championships competing in all five events, Maze’s days have been full of not just winning medals but fervently training in the morning and afternoon for upcoming events. “This downhill is one of the toughest downhill’s I’ve skied. Today it was icy and bumpy. Then doing slalom on 3,000 meters (elevation), that’s tough, too. Breathing is hard,” Maze said. “Maybe I’ll do the team event with my team. Ha ha. I’m joking. I will take a break tomorrow for sure. Some of the Slovenian journalists asked why I’m not doing the team event, and I said what I’m doing is already crazy.” Maze has won 13 medals in her career — nine World Championships and four Olympic. Monday’s victory was her first gold medal in the combined event. Maze knows that she could medal in the giant slalom and slalom events, too, but she is taking one race at a time. “I’m not thinking about medals on the start. It would be awesome to (win a medal in every event). Of course it’s not easy. You just need to be focused on your run on the hill,” she said.
AUSTRIAN SURGE Hosp, who put down both a tremendous downhill and slalom run and finished 0.22 behind Maze for the silver medal (the 11th medal of her long and tumultuous ski career), was more than focused following a disappointing super-G race, in which she missed a gate, and failing to qualify for a start in the downhill.
FIS ALPINE WORLD SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS MEDALS COUNT Gold Silver Bronze TOTAL Austria
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2
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6
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“I just think of the positive energy and positive mind. For me it works,” said the 31-year-old Austrian who also landed a win earlier this season in the Aspen World Cup slalom race, her first victory since 2008, after which she sustained a series of knee injuries. “I know what I have to do for big events. I just focus on me, push everything else away and it works.” Kirchgasser, a tech specialist who rarely dons speed skis, could not believe her downhill run on the Raptor course, in which she finished a respectable eighth, 1.33 seconds back, just behind Lindsey
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Michaela Kirchgasser, of Austria, reacts to her strong time after completing her slalom run in the combined of the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships on Monday in Beaver Creek. Kirchgasser won the bronze medal.
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Seeing ski history and repeating ski history Maze forging her trail; Austrians returning to form BEAVER CREEK — Yeah, she’s that good. Slovenia’s Tina Maze is putting on a clinic at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Beaver Creek — silver in super-G, gold in downhill and now gold in the combined. She could stop right now, and she’d be the unquestioned star of the Championships. She won’t. As a side note, does she compete as an individual in today’s Nations Team Event in Vail just to make it fair for the rest of the world? (She is not racChris Freud ing today.) Seriously, On Skiing with no disrespect intended to any racer of any nationality, much less to any Slovenian competing at Worlds, but I feel like changing Slovenia in our medal box to Maze. In an era of increasing specialization, as noted by Shauna Farnell in Monday’s edition of the Vail Daily, Maze is the exception to the rule. The stunning thing is that, despite all the accolades she’s picking up in Beaver Creek, this is not her best season to date. That would still be 2012-13, when Maze racked up 2,414 points, a record that is likely safe for a good long while. Hermann Maier’s in second place with 2,000 points in the 1999-2000 season. Not only did she break the record of a skiing god by more than 20 percent, but she won 11 times on the World Cup tour, and three more medals at Worlds in Schladming, Austria — gold in super-G and silvers in combined and GS. What makes what Maze’s doing all the more remarkable is the condensed schedule of the Championships. She has medals in three different disciplines in seven days with training in between, and now she gets two days to switch up and turn to GS and slalom by Thursday and Saturday. On the regular World Cup, she would get an entire week to prepare for two races on one side or the other of the alpine spectrum — speed or tech. Lasse Kjus had golds in super-G and the GS and silvers in downhill, combined and slalom. It was an unreachable mark. But then again, so was Maier’s 2,000 points. Go, Tina, go.
THE ALPINE REPUBLIC While the U.S. Ski Team is doing just fine with regard to medal count, Austria is back in all its glory as the preeminent power in ski racing. Ironically, I think we saw it most on the day red, white and red, aka the Alpine Republic, gasp, didn’t win a gold. Austria went 2-3-5-6. Perhaps most impressive was Anna Fenninger’s performance in fourth. Nicole Hosp and Michaela Kirchgasser are combined specialists. That in itself is a statement that a national ski team has combined specialists, while most nations are scrounging around their rosters, asking athletes, “You want to do this?” For Fenninger, though, her first podium
JUSTIN Q. MCCARTY | SPECIAL TO THE DAILY
Tina Maze, of Slovenia, is putting up a show for the ages at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships with three medals in three events, including two golds. of any kind came at Worlds combined in 2011, slalom is not her thing. The Austrians have three golds, two silvers and a bronze, and we’re not to the meat of their skills — i.e. Marcel Hirscher in the giant slalom and slalom. Those are two medals waiting to happen, and Austrian women’s tech should also make itself/
herself felt. The Austrians took it personally getting out-gold-medaled in Schladming in 2013, and they’re returning the favor.
HIRSCHER-GATE? Speaking of the allegedly nefarious Austrians, we go back to the men’s combined.
The podium on Sunday was Marcel Hirscher, Kjetil Jansrud and Ted Ligety. That wouldn’t have been an outlandish one had you not seen the actual race. It’s funny how that worked. Though the conditions were less than ideal for the
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Vonn derailed by equipment, course, knee American women struggle in Monday’s alpine combined race By Melanie Wong mwong@vaildaily.com
BEAVER CREEK — Lindsey Vonn said earlier in the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships that she was banking on a “slim chance” of winning a medal in the alpine combined event, but in the end, the speed star was unable to pull off the feat. Vonn, 30, had equipment troubles early on and was suffering from a sore knee, something she attributed to the icy Raptor downhill course. In the slalom run — a discipline in which she does not train — she was disqualified after straddling a gate midway through the course.
A DISAPPOINTING CHAMPIONSHIPS Vonn struggled through her downhill run, in un-Lindsey-like fashion, appearing off balance and fighting to keep her skis from sliding out. The downhill run was still fast enough for a top-10 finish in the first portion, although she started the slalom 1.3 seconds behind the leaders. “I just didn’t feel like I had any grip whatsoever. I talked to the (equipment technicians), and they said I hit a rock,” she said. “It’s pretty hard to hold an edge when you have no edge. I tried my best, but this ice doesn’t really feel good on my knee. It’s pretty sore.” Vonn predicted that, especially with her aching knee, it would be tough to excel in the slalom. “Wow, I did not have a good feeling out there this morning. The ice is brutal on the body/ knee. Will do my best in the slalom this p.m.!” she wrote on her Twitter feed after the downhill portion. After her failed slalom run, Vonn left the racecourse in tears. “I’m just really disappointed. The whole time at the World Championships, I just tried as hard as I could, and that’s just disappointing for myself and for my family and my fans,” she said. “Especially since I skied really good slalom in training the last two days, I thought I really had a chance at getting a medal.” She plans to ski the giant slalom event on Thursday, which will be her last event of the Championships.
A SPEED TEAM ON A SLALOM COURSE None of the other Americans in Monday’s race were slalom specialists either, and several said they had no expectations for the combined race. Laurenne Ross
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Lindsey Vonn runs the women’s combined slalom course during the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Beaver Creek on Monday. Vonn was disqualified after straddling a gate midway through the course.
“I’ll try to have fun with it instead of stress out. It’s nice to be home and competing in front of a home crowd.” Julia Mancuso Team USA
was the top American finisher in 14th place, with Julia Mancuso following in 15th and newcomer Jacqueline Wiles in 17th. “I had some mistakes (in the downhill), but less than other days,” said Ross, shrugging. “In the slalom I didn’t really know what to expect. The last time I raced a slalom run was whenever the World Cup super-combined was last year, so I haven’t really had any training and didn’t really know what was going to happen.” Mancuso did not have the downhill run that she hoped for, finishing the first portion of the race 2.5 seconds behind the leaders with a bobble near the top of Raptor. “I haven’t really gotten in the groove of this course. After I messed up on that first part, I had a little bit of a hard time getting back into it,” she said, adding that she was trying to enjoy the home
DOMINIQUE TAYLOR | SPECIAL TO THE DAILY
American Julia Mancuso flies down the women’s downhill course during the first of two races in the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships women’s combined on Monday at Beaver Creek. Mancuso finished the women’s combined in 15th place. crowds instead of worrying about her finish. “I’ll try to have fun with it instead of stress out. It’s nice to be home and competing in front of a home crowd. It hasn’t been my World Championships so far, but it’s a ton of fun to be here and see
the support for ski racing,” she said. Wiles, 22, was competing in her first World Championships event. The Oregon native was skiing with a tweaked shoulder that she re-injured when she fell in training earlier this week.
“It is my first World Championships and also my second alpine combined. The only other one I’ve done was in a Nor-Am race. It’s a big event, so it was fun to try it again,” she said. “I’m glad I had two OK runs and a good experience.”
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A little good luck (charm) can never hurt Racers wear and practice particularities to help them toward a solid finish By Shauna Farnell Special to the Daily
BEAVER CREEK — It doesn’t take much for superstitions to run wild, which is why some 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships skiers are adamantly against the idea of a good luck charm, but others genuinely believe that no success will ever come their way if certain emblems — jewelry, start number, socks, even underwear — are not in place. “I’ve heard of these things but I don’t have any,” Norwegian Ragnhild Mowinckel said during the women’s combined on Monday. “I really don’t have any kind of luck charm.” French skier Margot Bailet wears a family heirloom around her neck when she races but is careful to not view it as a good luck charm. “I don’t like this stuff because when you don’t have it, you feel unlucky,” Bailet said, adding that she is not above superstition when it comes to bib numbers. “I like just the bib (No.) 2,” she said. “Today I had that 2, so I was happy.”
DRAWERS AND OTHER THINGS Then you have athletes like American Jackie Wiles, who never starts a race without her lucky underwear. On Monday, she said she was wearing a pair of blue and black underwear from “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” “I have a couple of pairs of Ellen lucky underwear because I love the “Ellen Show.” I went and saw her and got a couple pairs. I could actually use some more. I have a pair from this company in Val d’Isere, France. I actually crashed in my lucky underwear in the St. Moritz downhill. That one maybe ran its course … I should throw that pair away,” Wiles said. “Some people think it’s weird. It is kind of goofy. But for me, I think it’s fun to have lucky underwear.” Austrian Michaela Kirchgasser, whose skills alone led to her bronze-medal combined performance on Monday, never starts a race without her lucky pair of sparkly earrings. “They’re a good luck charm from my boyfriend and they’re always with me,” Kirchgasser said. Julia Mancuso’s lucky charm? A full-blown Wonder Woman outfit. “Not so much lucky under the race suit, but everywhere else,” she said, adding that more than luck, before the race she engages in a few rituals to generate good vibes.
DOMINIQUE TAYLOR | SPECIAL TO THE DAILY
Austria’s Michaela Kirchgasser skis to bronze during the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships women’s combined on Monday at Beaver Creek. Kirchgasser never starts a race without her lucky pair of earrings.
“I actually crashed in my lucky underwear in the St. Moritz downhill. That one maybe ran its course … I should throw that pair away.” Jackie Wiles Team USA
“Before I go, I kind of practice a little meditation, just breathing and the things that make me happy and get rid of any nerves before I kick out of the start gate,” Mancuso said.
BUDA IS A CHARM Argentine racer Macarena Simari Birkner doesn’t wear her good luck charm, but feeds it. She brings her dog Buda with her every where she travels in the winter. “She loves the snow,” Simari Birkner said. “She definitely brings me good luck.” Czech skier Klara Krizova had a few runes fueling her race on Monday. The first was a tribute to teammate Ondrej Bank, who sustained a bad crash in Sunday’s combined race. Krizova wore tape inside of her gloves, which she flashed upon crossing the finish line. The message read, “Bank #1.” “I was really in shock
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American Jackie Wiles bangs gates on the slalom section of the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships women’s combined in Beaver Creek on Monday. Wiles’ superstition is to wear a special undergarment, which, of course, is not pictured. yesterday. When I was going to sleep, I was still having this picture in front of my eyes,” Krizova said of Bank’s crash. “But then I said, ‘OK, I’m just going to do it and I’ll do it for Ondrej and make this happen.’ Everything is fine. Today my run was for him, to give him a compliment that he is amazing.” Like Mancuso and many others,
the Czech skier practices meditation before she launches onto the racecourse but also wears her lucky necklace under her race suit. “I’m wearing my lucky rock on my neck,” she said, displaying the pink stone shaped like an angel. “My friend gave it to me in Sochi. More than luck it helps me know that life is beautiful.”
“They’re a good luck charm from my boyfriend and they’re always with me.” Michaela Kirchgasser Austrian ski team
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Austria’s Nicole Hosp leans into her turn as she speeds down the women’s downhill course during the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships women’s combined on Monday at Beaver Creek. Hosp, who was in fourth place going into the slalom race, finished in second place behind Slovenia’s Tina Maze.
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Austria’s Nicole Hosp, left, and Michaela Kirchgasser pose for a picture after picking up silver and bronze medals during the women’s combined at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships on Monday in Beaver Creek.
Complete women’s combined results Daily staff report newsroom@vaildaily.com 1 MAZE Tina SLO 2 HOSP Nicole AUT 3 KIRCHGASSER M. AUT 4FENNINGER Anna AUT 5 GUT Lara SUI 6 ZETTEL Kathrin AUT 7 STUHEC Ilka SLO 8 MARSAGLIA F. ITA 9 MOWINCKEL R. NOR 10 BAILET Margot FRA
2:33.37 2:33.59 2:33.72 2:34.26 2:34.31 2:35.01 2:35.80 2:35.96 2:35.98 2:36.59
11 BUCIK Ana SLO 12 BRODNIK Vanja SLO 13 HRONEK V. GER 14 ROSS Laurenne USA 15 MANCUSO Julia USA 16 FANCHINI Elena ITA 17 WILES Jacqueline USA 18 SMALL Greta AUS 19 KOMSIC Andrea CRO 20 KRIZOVA Klara CZE 21 SIMARI B. M. ARG 22 BARAHONA N. CHI
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Vonn, who went on to miss a gate in the slalom. Kirchgasser earned the bronze just 0.35 seconds off of Maze’s winning combined time. “When I crossed the finish line just 1.3 behind, I couldn’t believe it,” said the Austria, who will turn 30 next month and whose only other
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Championships medal was a silver in her 2013 home event in Schladming. “It’s such a demanding and challenging slope. I thought after the downhill, I would take the good vibes with me and make a perfect slalom. I think I did pretty well.” Unlike other World Championships disciplines, the time gap between top finishers was enormous in Monday’s combined race. Anna
Fenninger, 0.26 seconds back after the downhill portion of the race, put down a solid slalom run but still ended up fourth, 0.89 seconds back. Gut, who was just 0.02 seconds behind Maze after the downhill run, ended up in fifth, 0.94 seconds back. After sixth-place Kathrin Zettel, who was 1.64 seconds off of the winning pace, the remainder of the field was well over two seconds out.
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slalom portion, once can’t really argue about that podium. Those are the nos. 1 and 2 skiers in the world and the defending combined champion. What I don’t buy are the conspiracy theories that Hirscher and the Austrian Ski Team used undue influence to have Czech skier Ondrej Bank disqualified. Bank suffered a terrible crash during the downhill portion of the combined. He did, in fact, cross the finish line and was initially included in the results of the downhill. Upon further review, Bank missed the final gate, likely unconsciously going around it by hitting the safety fencing and then sliding down to the finish line. Even if he hadn’t missed the gate, he would have been disqualified because his skis popped off — a good thing for safety. A racer can’t cross the line without his or her skis. Disqualification was merited. What’s more, had there been a dispute about disqualification, it’s not like Bank was in any condition to race the second run of Sunday’s race. With Bank out, Hirscher moved from 31st to 30th in the downhill standings and got the first slalom run on a firm course and ended up winning the combined. This was not “evil” Austria manipulating the system for its gain. Was it a stroke of good luck? Absolutely. You need luck in ski racing — that’s not breaking news. This was a gift, but Hirscher and Ligety used it, putting down good runs on what became a mess of a course. Yes, the Austrians are the “evil empire” of alpine ski racing because they win so much, but the DQ was a cut and dried issue. Sports Editor Chris Freud can be reached at 970-748-2934, cfreud@vaildaily.com and @cfreud.
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A34 | Tuesday, February 10, 2015 | The Vail Daily
Smith’s impact goes beyond North Carolina Tar Heels coach has lasting influence By Aaron Beard AP Basketball Writer
Dean Smith accomplished so much on and off the court during his time as North Carolina’s coach, leaving a lasting influence both on the game and the world around him. He preached the value of team play and turned the Tar Heels program into a family, inspiring fierce loyalty in the countless players and coaches who came through Chapel Hill during Smith’s 36-year tenure there. Away from the bench, Smith took stands on societal issues — most notably in civil rights — that resonated in the once-segregated South. The retired Hall of Fame coach died “peacefully” Saturday, his family said in a statement released by the school Sunday. He had kept a lower profile amid health isDEAN SMITH sues in recent years, with his family saying in 2010 he had a condition that was causing him to lose the memory that was once unshakable. But his legacy never wavered. Here are some of the ways that Smith’s presence will be felt at UNC, in college basketball and beyond for years to come. FOUR CORNERS: Seeing Smith hold up four fingers meant the Tar Heels were ready to work the clock. That “Four Corners” offense was a slowdown strategy to control the game and lure the defense out to chase the ball. Most notably, UNC went to it in the 1982 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament final against Virginia and 7-foot-4 Ralph Sampson and turned a game between highly ranked teams into a crawl — the kind of moment that helped ultimately lead to the adoption of the shot clock. POINT TO THE PASSER: The rule was simple: when you score, point to the guy that passed you the ball to set up the basket. It was the epitome of Smith’s attempts to deflect vv credit for all those wins — 879, making him the sport’s winningest coach when he retired in October 1997 — to his players throughout his career. CIVIL RIGHTS: Under Smith, Charles Scott became the first black scholarship athlete at the school in 1967 and one of the first in the South. President Barack Obama honored Smith with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
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