2025 World Cup Finals of Ski Racing in Sun Valley with River Radamus & Will Brandenburg
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan is currently in Sun Valley for the World Cup Finals, and today, you’ll hear his live conversation that happened at 5850 Fest with US ski racer and Rossignol athlete, River Radamus, about his upcoming WC Finals GS race; this World Cup season; & more. Then, former World Cup ski racer, Will Brandenburg, joins Jonathan to talk about the Herculean effort it was to build — and prep — the steepest DH and Super G race courses in the world, right here in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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TOPICS & TIMES:
New BLISTER+ Members (4:47)
River Radamus 6:37)
Current Conditions? (8:32)
Season Recap (9:18)
Training & Athlete Discussions Leading up to the Race (12:00)
Cancellations (18:15)
Being Back on Home Turf (19:28)
Ski Length Decisions (23:25)
Will Brandenburg (25:13)
Training Runs (29:03)
Why the Cancellation of the DH Race? (30:20)
What Are You Most Excited About? (36:23)
SVSEF (38:29)
Will’s Predictions (41:24)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything. |
| 0:11.7 | We're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:17.5 | While I am currently out here in Sun Valley, Idaho at the World Cup Finals for Alpine |
| 0:24.3 | Ski Racing, and this has been an incredible couple of days out here already. |
| 0:30.5 | This community has proven that Sun Valley is an incredible destination and an incredible venue for hosting World Cup |
| 0:41.2 | ski racing. |
| 0:42.7 | And I have been out here every afternoon hosting live conversations with current athletes and |
| 0:50.8 | former World Cup athletes and talking with some of the people that have helped make this |
| 0:56.6 | whole thing happen. So basically what this looks like is in the mornings and early afternoons, |
| 1:03.7 | we have our World Cup ski races. And then I have been coming on in downtown Ketchum as part of the 5850 Fest that is sort of segueing from the race activity on the mountain into the opera festivities in the afternoons and evenings back in downtown Ketchum. |
| 1:24.5 | And that's been really fun. |
| 1:26.0 | I've had a number of members of the |
| 1:29.0 | hundred stopped by to say hi. So it's been great to meet all of you and thanks for coming out. |
| 1:35.4 | And then we've had just some fantastic conversations already. And you're going to now be hearing |
| 1:41.7 | two of those that we recorded Saturday afternoon. |
| 1:45.0 | So to get things started, we first talked with River Radamus, who is on the U.S. ski team. |
| 1:52.3 | You may have heard my conversation with River a couple of months ago, just after his |
| 1:57.6 | outstanding performance at Birds of Prey, I love that conversation with River. |
| 2:03.8 | If you didn't catch it the first time, we'll include a link to it in the show notes of this |
| 2:08.4 | conversation, but River did this phenomenal job breaking down and analyzing his own runs |
| 2:16.2 | after Birds of prey. |
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