Around the Web: Bar bills to elevator tents

Marco Buechel says he couldn’t believe his eyes when he got his bill at the Chateau Hotel in Lake Louise. Seems his bar bill was $180. “Any schlem which knew my room number could drink on my account,” he says, according to Swiss publication Blick. 

Matthias Berthold, the coach of the German women’s team told Sueddeutsche.de he was displeased with everyone on his team save Maria Riesch. They get one more chance, he says and then: “We will use girls from the Europa Cup.”

Marco Buechel says he couldn’t believe his eyes when he got his bill at the Chateau Hotel in Lake Louise. Seems his bar bill was $180. “Any schlem which knew my room number could drink on my account,” he says, according to Swiss publication Blick.

Matthias Berthold, the coach of the German women’s team told Sueddeutsche.de he was displeased with everyone on his team save Maria Riesch. They get one more chance, he says and then: “We will use girls from the Europa Cup.”

Blick columnist Bernard Russi says the Swiss public is beginning to grow spoiled after the team put four men into the top 10 of the Lake Louise super G. Russi says while many consider super G a “stepchild” discipline, he sees it as the premier indicator of ability. “It concerns. … intelligence, line choice and fast decisions,” and, because of the lack of training runs, “there counts only being able, the instincts and conviction.”

Britain’s Chemmy Alcott told Euro-Sport she had an incident as a child skiing down a slope with her pants around her ankles. Best line, though, was the answer to the question how long in the morning do you need to get ready? Response: “It’s usually dark outside when I get up, so it doesn’t matter what I look like.”

In the “Skionline” forums a chap named Vialli suggests Hermann Maier belongs on the same stage with Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.

Hannes Trinkl, a former racer and current Austrian team VP isn’t afraid to take on the FIS. Also on Skionline he is quoted saying: “In the FIS sit only old people,” and suggests changes to the sport are slow because of it.

Val d’Isere press contact Beatrice Hutter reports the resort is experiencing the most abundant snowfall recorded since 1974.  There are two meters at the top of the slopes and 50cm in the village. Great news for the Criterium of the Premier Neige.

That was good, but Anchorage Daily News reports 10 feet for fresh snow at Alyeska for the week. Yeah, they opened the North Face.

This isn’t ski news, but it’s too cool not to report. According to LaGazzetta dello Sport of Italy, Ferrari has developed a bobsleigh which will be unveiled at Vancouver. Can’t wait to see what that looks like, but you can bet it will be red.

Comcast had a video news clip of Anders Bardal’s massive 137m jump in the Kuusamo, Finland ski jump Nov. 29. He had a terrible first jump, though, and finished fifth for the contest, but the video was awesome.

A group of Austrian athletes are sleeping in “elevator tents,” or altitude simulation tents to prepare for the races at Beaver Creek. According to the German website Kurier, Mario Matt, Marcel Hirscher, Christian Noesig and Philipp Schoerghofer have all been using the tents for five nights to help adjust to the Colorado altitude and ease jet lag.