Talk:Janica Kostelić

The most successful

I would definitely question the statement in this article that "she is considered to be the most successful female skier of all time." The Alpine Ski World Cup Database - [[1]] - has her listed 4th in their alltime super rankings, and despite her impressive performance at the 2002 Olympic winter games, she has nowhere near the World Cup pedigree of Annemarie Moser-Proell, Vreni Schneider, Katja Seizinger or possibly even Renate Goetschl or Petra Kronberger. She is possibly not even the best skier of her generation, as Anja Paerson of Sweden has beaten her, in her prime, consistently over the past 2 world cup seasons. --Pemmitt 00:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Better now? Be bold! --Dijxtra 11:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

The "Unofficial Alpine World Ski Database" (http://ski-db.com/) and its dubious "results" and "rankings" have no place here. The rest of your remarks, Pemitt, are totally subjective and unsubstantiated and are suspiciously malicious.

The most successful 2

I don't think we can say that Kostelic is "the most succesful female skier of all time". It's hard to compare athletes from different generations (Kostelic/Schneider or Pele/Maradona). However, I belive she indeed is the most succesful female skier of her generation. You can't really compare someone as versatile as Kostelic with Renate Goestchl (altough Goetschl's results in downhill & SuperG are very impressive). Speaking of Anja Paerson, she hasn't beaten Kostelic "consistently over the last 2 world cup seasons". Kostelic didn't even compete in 2003/04 World Cup because of health problems, when Paerson won her first World Cup. In 2004/05 season Paerson won by mere three points ahead of Kostelic (slimest margin ever). Also, I don't think Paerson has any chance of catching Kostelic this year in World Cup. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.139.82.171 (talk • contribs) 00:41, 19 February 2006

Well, the fact is she has the greatest number of gold medals... I think that approves the use of the phrase "the most successful". --Dijxtra 11:57, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

You can say that she has the most gold medals of any female skier, but you can't say that she is the "most successful" without a reference. Sue Anne 06:49, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

The fact she won 3 gold medals at one Olympic games and 4 in total which are both records for female skiiers is a reference enough. Afrika Paprika 05:16, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Only human with six winter olympics medals

How can she be the only human with six winter olympics medals when Felix Gottwald has six winter olympic medals?? AnonMoos 11:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, she obviously can't be :-) --Dijxtra 15:16, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

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