Ted Ligety

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83 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 4 Feb

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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! · HTDE: Torches and Ski Jumps · 4 Feb 2026 podcast

People who risk it too much have very short careers or short seasons.

So you're always trying to find that right line there.

And

In a downhill or a Super G course, like five degrees of difference over a roll can be the difference between being on the perfect line and winning and, you know, burritoing yourself up in the fence and ending your season.

So it's a fine line.

Yeah, you'll see.

The fence is just like rapids way around him and there'll be the meat in the middle.

The biggest difference was that our boots would get really cold.

So when our boots get cold, it makes the plastic really stiff.

So we brought a propane heater to the start, and I would stand just close enough that it would get the plastic warm, but not so close that it would melt the plastic.

So it was always a fine line there.

We read about battery-powered pants.

Yeah, we actually tried that a little bit before Korea.

I didn't end up using them because I don't like having too many battery packs and things to bust around with.

I think, yeah, of course, super heating your muscles before you go is probably an athletic advantage.

But just walking around in copper-wired pants is not super comfortable.

That's news to me.

I never felt like that worked out so well for me.

Okay, I don't know that theory.

I've skied a lot of races, jet lagged.

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