The view from the stadium.

Beckie took the lead at about 1km and held the lead, often by a hair, all the way to the finish.

Beckie moving into the lead.

Wendy Wagner, 29th.

The lead women backed by the beautiful Canadian Rockies.

The lead men on the final big climb of the day.  Tobias Angerer is on fire.  Kris fought a good fight in the front pack all day but didn't have that final touch of fitness... yet.

Hold on brother.  This is right where Carl Swenson went down - he tried to regain contact but the effort was too much and he faded.

Keep the great conversation going on women's skiing. 

Note: it was one of Team Today's goals to raise enough money to pay each woman (not men) who qualified to race in the Canadian world cups -see "goals."

So while we are talking both about passion and women's ski racing... you might consider pushing on the donate button.

This does go along very well with the general topic of "what does it take?" so keep it rolling!

Whoa!  Have you considered "Momentum: Chasing the Olympic Dream" for your winter-time presents?  check it out at www.outyourbackdoor.com or at www.amazon.com (type in Vordenberg).

(all Vordenberg Images)