Enjoyed the alpine skiing events the best. Having spent some time at both Aspen and Vail I was lucky enough to witness jr. national alpine down hill one year at Vail and another national downhill at Aspen. The speed these skiers are going is unreal. At Vail the course was on a trail that I had skied many times but for the race it was pool table smooth and sprayed with water to ice it up. At the bottom of the face a ski patrolman had a hand held radar gun and was clocking the racers. 82 mph was tops while I was watching and these were junior racers. Insane.
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