We were standing right up at the starting gate and saw Hermann Maier (The Herminator!), Bode Miller, Didier Cuche, and Benjamin Raich set of about 5m away from us. We also saw Bode (first name basis obviously) riding on a chairlift right above just like a normal person, which he clearly isn't.
This is The Herminator setting off on his run.
Marco Sullivan won the event (who we also saw set off) which was kinda cool considering this (caution: sensitive viewers may not want to watch) happened to his teammate, Scott Macartney, last week in Kitzbuehel and Marco dedicated his win to him. Scott apparently had some minor bruising to the brain, but was recovering well back home.
This is a competitor about 5m into his 20-30m jump about 500m after the start of the race. If you can read the number off the vest, i'll tell you who he is. He lands well below the Chamonix sign written in blue paint in the snow.
The competitors must all be clinically insane because they launch themselves off 30m jumps down near-vertical sections of the piste, land on one leg, and somehow make the next corner at 140kph.
Even more awesome than that, this is me doing a 0.3m jump. Cannonball!
And this is Natalie with photographic evidence that we really went to Chamonix.
And, in case you've forgotten, this is what we look like with our helmets off. And also a reason why i keep mine on.
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