@@xm9047 He would have needed to average 5-6 km/h faster than Read to have made that up entirely with speed, so I think most of it came from taking a longer line above the last time check, and a shorter line below. From picking apart the video the main thing I notice is that Kriechmayr was both very high and very clean clean through the left-footed turn at ~8:57, just above the last intermediate. Read was a little lower and definitely not as clean at ~3:26. Being high like that hurt Kriechmayr's time through the last intermediate check (since it meant that he went further above it than Read did) but it also allowed him to be faster below it, as that turn was was the critical set-up that determined speed through the bottom section. It's also worth noting that intermediate time-checks aren't always perfectly perpendicular to the racing line, so they may "favor" one side of the course or the other. With that said it looks to me as though Kriechmayr and Read both went through the final intermediate on the skier's left edge, so that probably wasn't a factor. The same thing applies to speed checks btw - the radar gun isn't always perfectly parallel to the racer's line, so it can underestimate some racers' speeds relative to others.
Danke Weedy
How did VK make up .5 second in the last 10 seconds of the race?
114km/hr vs 115km/hr and/because of the better/shorter line taken (@9:02), I think
@@xm9047 He would have needed to average 5-6 km/h faster than Read to have made that up entirely with speed, so I think most of it came from taking a longer line above the last time check, and a shorter line below.
From picking apart the video the main thing I notice is that Kriechmayr was both very high and very clean clean through the left-footed turn at ~8:57, just above the last intermediate. Read was a little lower and definitely not as clean at ~3:26. Being high like that hurt Kriechmayr's time through the last intermediate check (since it meant that he went further above it than Read did) but it also allowed him to be faster below it, as that turn was was the critical set-up that determined speed through the bottom section.
It's also worth noting that intermediate time-checks aren't always perfectly perpendicular to the racing line, so they may "favor" one side of the course or the other. With that said it looks to me as though Kriechmayr and Read both went through the final intermediate on the skier's left edge, so that probably wasn't a factor.
The same thing applies to speed checks btw - the radar gun isn't always perfectly parallel to the racer's line, so it can underestimate some racers' speeds relative to others.
English subtitles bitte.
I am Swiss and I did not understand a thing Odermatt was saying. Terrible interview.