My favourite part about skiing is that it makes hockey look like a poor mans sport.
Personally I'd put ski racers closer to the top of the entitled prick totem pole than hockey players.
Actually my wife and I talk about this often - how can we make sure our kids, who are lucky to be able to participate in an otherwise inaccessible elitist sport, turn out less entitled.
(For the record, she grew up ski racing, we're in the mountains every weekend and we've both never played organized hockey a day in our lives.)
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Took a look at the photos of the top 100 skiers.
All had one thing in common.
Makes sense why Yikes likes the sport so much.
Their legs? Those sweet, muscular, juicy, powerful, purest untainted ivory legs.
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Eh, kinda sound like a bandwagon fan to me. Young, hot, non-stop winning, I mean I just became a Shiffrin fan when I googled her just now too. Breath of fresh air for sure.
I kid, Netflix taught me that. Unlike that Stenmark fellow...
F1 drivers definitely take the top spot on the totem pole.
Yeah, I mean even if you exclude those whose relationship with a billionaire got them a seat, the sons of F1 drivers make up a pretty big percentage of the grid.
Verstappen, Magnussen, Saintz and recently Mick Schumacher are all the children of F1 drivers (although parental success seems inversely correlated to the success of the sons, eg Schumacher vs Verstappen)
Yeah, I mean even if you exclude those whose relationship with a billionaire got them a seat, the sons of F1 drivers make up a pretty big percentage of the grid.
Verstappen, Magnussen, Saintz and recently Mick Schumacher are all the children of F1 drivers (although parental success seems inversely correlated to the success of the sons, eg Schumacher vs Verstappen)
Rosberg, Villeneueve, and Hill were all about on par with each other. Gilles is probably the highest rated of the 6 despite being the only one without a championship.
Sainz's dad was a rally driver...don't think he ever did F1.
Mario and Michael is another good inverse example. Also Piquet and Piquet.
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I know most of you guys don't know/care about this, but this is pretty huge over here. In terms of popularity, alpine skiing in Austria is pretty much like hockey in Canada, so ... huge.
Of course it's hard to compare eras, but Stenmarks record has stood forever and, like Yikes said, was comparable to Gretzkys status. I do think Hermann Maier would have beaten it without the motorcycle crash which severely derailed his career, and for a while, it looked like Lindsey Vonn could get there, but because of injuries she just fell short (82).
I can't speak to anything before the 90s, but Shiffrin is the GOAT from the timespan I have seen. She won about a third of all the races he participated in, which is just bat#### crazy to think about. And I do think the OP is slightly unfair to her, she has also won a few downhill races ... if we just want to compare slaloms and giant slaloms, it's 86 to 72 for Stenmark, but I have no doubt Shiffrin will beat that too. She's still young (beating that record at only 27 ... again, hard to put into words just how good she's been), so if she wants to continue her career for a few more years, the sky's the limit. Unless the decides to hang em up before 30, I doo think she cracks 100 wins easily when all is said and done.
Until this post I didn't even know we were talking about a woman
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Rosberg, Villeneueve, and Hill were all about on par with each other. Gilles is probably the highest rated of the 6 despite being the only one without a championship.
Sainz's dad was a rally driver...don't think he ever did F1.
Mario and Michael is another good inverse example. Also Piquet and Piquet.
You're right, not sure why I thought Sainz Sr raced F1 - although that's certainly still relevant to my point about the elitism of the sport.
I think the question now is does she get to 100 next year?
Hopefully she maintains her form and does better in Cortina in 3 years than what happened in Beijing.
