Some of this, tongue in cheek! Can't these work cup winners get it right and widen their stance? Imagine how much better they would ski? Sure this is not as tight a stance as you want in GS all the time, obviously. However; when I watched Lara's run, there were two things that stood out immediately to me, she changed her skiing. Now, it may not last, for the whole season, but at least on this hill she did the right thing in her preparation. Not rocket science either. She narrowed her stance and she stood on the outside ski, and kept the inside ski light or off the snow in many situations. This requires a focus and training, emphasis, it's not that natural even for the top skiers. Gut last season was leaning around and two footed, with a wide stance and it sure didn't work. The wider your stance, the easier it is to put your inside foot down and weight it. Which as a result allows you to lean, because you don't sense the consequences with that inside foot wide and down.
These are basic mistakes and we can't seem to recognize them, not either USSA or PSIA can, in the USA. In fact, PSIA, which the now the technical foundation for USSA coaching, advocates a wide, two footed stance. Clearly USSA doesn't know it's important enough, because the "Skills Quest" thing is much more effective, ya, right! If USSA has to go to PSIA to get their technical understanding. US Skiing is in some deep shit.