I skied (not raced!) the Olympic DH 'course' at Snow Basin UT many years ago. Of course, there were no gates but the start house was still there. We just free skied the general route. There was an extremely steep long pitch right out of the start house that the racers tucked and even took a few skating steps. We were making wide turns on it just to keep the speed manageable
. Anyway, the burn in the legs was so severe due to the length of the course, we made 2 stops before the end (and I'm an experienced skier, ex-instructor, and did some racing)
Absolutely insane that these racers are straight-lining the entire thing at 60-80MPH
