Talk:1974–75 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
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Male section: Last Event was decisive. edit
The last event was a "parallel slalom" in Val Gardena, to precisely define on one of the hills in St. Ulrich, on March 23rd. The rivales Thöni, Stenmark and Klammer were equal with 240 points. Klammer was the only one who could capture full number of points, and if would have finished fourth (capturing 11 points) he would be the winner - but Klammer was no well slalom racer, strictly speaking, he had no chances. He was eliminated by Helmuth Schmalzl very early in the event and couldn't capture any point. In regard to the run up Thöny versus Stenmark there was debate about whether the decision-making. Stenmark's staff speaker said that there were done manipulations by Thöny's team-mates who would have fell down in coming together with Thöny. - Because point deduction, Thöny was awarded with 10 points for his victory, Stenmark with 5 points for 2nd place. - I would like to say that it was not a good management by the FIS Officials in such a case like this because deciding an Overall World Cup in a "parallel slalom" is to open the doors to "practice humbug" but coincidences too. Those "failures" were debated the days before the race but the FIS Officials didn't provide for an "immaculate kind of race" like an "ordinary Special Slalom" or another alternative solution. But I would like to point out that Thöny was (and is) a great sportsman, he was a worthy champion (all newspaper wrote it) and he was not responsible for all those goings-on (maybe true or not, it leaves a bad taste in one's mouth). At last it is to point out that Klammer lost the Overall World Cup earlier in the season when he didn't finish downhill race in Megève on February 1st (having a "technical problem" when he fell down - ski fittings did break). --Skiscout (talk) 12:04, 19 January 2017 (UTC).
Naeba 21/23. February - Men's GS and SL edit
Dear Sir, FIS-websites aren't correct; there the Giant Slalom was the first men's race. See the German Wikipedia (and see "Arbeiterzeitung Vienne" from February 22nd, page 19, and from February 25th, page 7). --Skiscout (talk) 16:09, 26 January 2017 (UTC).