The Vancouver-Whistler Olympic Super G ski racing competition will be among the fiercest ever in winter Olympic games history. The growing equivalence between competitors on balance in terms of technology and training gives only the highest and best racers any possible edge. The Super G race is a split second contest of timing, nerves, strength, technique, and skiing experience and athletic skill.
The Super G race combines the challenge of increasing speed and achieving the smallest time for course run despite varying gates and turns required at hyper fast speeds. The speed factor and the winning timing is the overall determining factor in winning Super G events. Skiers in the medallist range approach the freeway speed limit yet must control their speed enough to navigate the gates of the slalom portion of the race.
World Cup Super G racing entails maximum risk and sharp senses to dare the fast moving track over uncertain snow and slick turns. Traditionally athletes from winter sports countries like Europe succeed but new faces include skiers from all over the world. The Super G demands excellence in downhill speed skiing and slalom sections of the course run at top speed.
Distance plus terrain present the varying obstacles to most efficient course finish. Ice conditions, overall weather, position of the run inside the competition and snow texture all play a role in every super-G win. Shaving seconds in the final course run can take months of training time. Skiers may want to change skis for course conditions, weather, altitude, and conditioning levels.
Full force injuries in Super G racing involve steep and flat trajectories that spell disaster for slips, errors, or any misjudgment in timing. Spectacular falls and crashes have brought renewed concern to safety precautions to prevent athletes from fatal or prohibitive injury. The short yet combined Super G course skied at high speed means there is absolutely no room to recover from an error in acceleration, losing balance, stopping, or accidental falling or slipping.
The Super G course run challenges an athlete in a mental determination of the most efficient yet deliverable method of finishing the run. Speed sacrifices due to turning techniques, slow snow, inefficient skiing or the wrong skis can cost gold medal milliseconds. The instinctive nature of skiing is tested, the Super G remains an elusive prize for all but the very best skiers in the world.
A brief inspection of the Super G course and no free training run mean that skiers at the Super G Olympic competition level must have the experience and skills to adapt while flying down the hill. Due to the interrupted time component of the Olympic games, even Super- G world champions may pursue the Olympic gold medal but miss the podium due to training, course run, or weather factors.
The Super-G remains the trophy competition that separates mere superstars in world cup skiing from the galactic masters of the sport. Acquired points in worldwide races determine the winner. But in Olympic Super-G races in Vancouver in 2010, the standings for podium spots and medalist finishes will be determined by possible tenths of a second.
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