Cuche bib tops $14,000, others climbing
With four days left in the racer’s bib auction, the top attraction for bidders, the Kitzbuehel DH bib of race winner Didier Cuche, continues to climb, reaching 10,105Euros this morning, or somewhere north of $14,200. That’s a climb of more than $3,000 in the last 24 hours.
Bode Miller’s bib is currently a shade under $2,000 and Michael Walchhofer is at 1252.99 Euros or about $1,770. Benny Raich climbed dramatically to $1,611 and Aksel Svindal to $1,568
Other Americans on the list are Scott Macartney at $326, Ted Ligety holding steady at about $860 (610E), Andrew Weibrecht climbed slightly remaining under $300, Steven Nyman climbed to $456, Erik Fisher jumped up to $286 and Marco Sullivan remained steady at about $288.
The Canadian bids include Manuel Osborne-Paradis at about $440, Eric Guay up significantly at $355 and Ryan Semple staying even at $288.
The guys auction is on the German version of Ebay at www.Ebay.de and they are not all listed the same way. Key search words include Hahnenkamm, Haiti, Kitzbuhel, Startnummer, World Cup and Charity.
The gals bibs are on the U.S. version of Ebay and all we found are listed: “Cortina BIB to benefit Haiti.”
Lindsey Vonn tops those totals, though unchanged from yesterday at $811.01. There has been plenty of action with Julia Mancuso jumping $50 to $405, Leanne Smith leaping from $102.50 to $301, Emily Brydon went up $100 to $202.50.
Maria Riesch, Fabienne Suter and Anja Paersson each got over the century mark, Riesch to $107.50, Suter and Paerson both to $102.50. Tina Maze was up $30 to $152.50.
Though the one cent bibs got snapped up yesterday, there are still plenty available for $20 or less.
Ryan Semple image from EBay.de
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