Here was The Hermanator's secret weapon (?)- at one time he didn't make the cut on the Austrian team- so he spent about a year as a bricklayer. Perhaps good for core & upper body strength (& starts) ? Who knows, but when he comes back the rest wuz history.

Tom! always insightful to read your comments. The only thing I have to disagree with is you can't sit back!! I'm working on it all believe me! and things are coming! its all about race day now, I know the speed is there, just have to minimize little mistakes.

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Check out You Tube of: "Herman Maier- Siegesfahrt" -ya, he knew how to blast out of der starting gate- zis ist der way to do it: WUNderbar !- a lot better than Bode, at least per the You Tube examples of Bode starts. Fishybacher has not been paying attention. Jules must now secretly copy Der Fawn-TAS-tic Herminator start to perfection (pumping more iron, as required). This will yield valuable split seconds even before the bleeping beeping gate is tripped, but of course.

Universal Sports video on You Tube of Fischbacher at St. Moritz- don't know when but she beat Vonn's time- commentator said she's a cousin of The Herminator (ya- he who thought he wus good till he make zat teensy, tiny mistake at Nagano). Oooh.... Fishy looked good in that race- she really dives into some turns with her shoulder-as the crazy Austrians love to do-she's always (always) trying to pull her arms in close too. She didn't look like she blasted out of the gate that hard. That's one thing J.C. specialized in -he did it better than anyone at the time, cleverly picked up time right off the bat, but of course-made Karl Scranz look like girlie starter.

If this were possible, I'd do it: get tapes of last race, Arvier, Fischbacher, Vonn- run in sync with Jules tape for comparison-take them to Geneva for consultation with J.C. (no, not that J.C.- the other one, from France). You don't win 70% of all races run (DH, GS & S) in a world cup season without being quite clever.

Good result, I missed the auction, ebay insisted that my home-town was situated in the USA while I consider me living in Sweden while we were argueing the time-limit passed. I can comfort me with that we had a fund-raising at my work and we raised 13.500$ that will go to Haiti.

Good Morning Julia,

This is Mary Occhino, Host of Angels On Call, Sirius/XM Stars 102 and XM 155 - looking forward to your guest appearance on my show today and invite everyone to listen in and learn from you how to be on top of your passions with your guidance!

My Love and Here's to the Gold!

What a wonderful thing to have Julie on my Mary O show..I learned so much thank you thank you thank you..

Mary! thanks! it was great!