Frustrating as a viewer to start watching the nbc replay of events, and having them ruin the surprise by telling us right in the beginning that Lindsey Vonn crashed and Breezy medaled. Turned it off immediately and watched on youtube tv instead. So annoyed. Related to Lindsey, I hope the damage isn’t too bad.
If you are related to Lindsey, wouldn’t you know if the damage is bad or not? HA HA HA
She was tentative, protective of her knee, causing her to get off the line, and ultimately crashing.
And she took a spot away from someone else.
NOT heroic.
VERY selfish.
Jesus Christ you're dense. She crashed because she took the most aggressive, tighest line. She "took a spot" away from the alternate, whom she absolutely demolished in the first test run before finishing on the podium of the second test run. She attempted to ski even more aggressively in the final and caught the wrong side of it. You're a misogynist that feels the need to kick a woman when she's down even though the facts don't support anything you're saying.
She was tentative, protective of her knee, causing her to get off the line, and ultimately crashing.
And she took a spot away from someone else.
NOT heroic.
VERY selfish.
Breezy Johnson in her post-gold interview just mentioned how she tore her ACL earlier in her career and also attempted to ski in a competition right after. So attempting to compete is not something unheard of in the sport. Educate yourself:
She earned the spot and the reason people like Lindsey make it at age 41 is because they're hypercompetitive and push boundaries. Weird to think you'd just lie down and give up if you thought you could push through (she made it down several times in practice runs this week).
If you want a participation sport, go watch middle school soccer, Olympics isn't for sissy's who give up that easily.
she seemed to land right on the edge of her feet perpendicular to her direction of travel. this is essentially the same force direction of any carve underfoot so your bindings wont release on this force direction.
but its far faster and more violent than a normal turn and its straight through your foot into your leg, hence the break.
When you are supposed to be representing something bigger than yourself why would you eat up a spot and waste a medal opportunity for TEAM USA when you have zero chances of winning. This is different from good sportsmanship being displayed when you are finishing a race after being injured. This was selfish
When you are supposed to be representing something bigger than yourself why would you eat up a spot and waste a medal opportunity for TEAM USA when you have zero chances of winning. This is different from good sportsmanship being displayed when you are finishing a race after being injured. This was selfish
There was no qualified alternate.
If you are #1 in the world, you have a shot. She literally earned her spot more than anyone else in the competition.
she seemed to land right on the edge of her feet perpendicular to her direction of travel. this is essentially the same force direction of any carve underfoot so your bindings wont release on this force direction.
but its far faster and more violent than a normal turn and its straight through your foot into your leg, hence the break.
nasty.
The podium and top 10 was littered with the most experienced and aggressive skiers. That turn was trecherous and if you take it conservatively (wide) you actually fall away from the fast line and have to go slightly uphill to get back on the fast line and you lose that speed compounded all the way down. Vonn went for that fast line. Word was that line had some weird bumps that threw a lot of people off. You could see many skiers were many full seconds behind, you were either in or you were out on that line, and LV was all in. No way she was going to do a safe run for the rocking chair. I think she would have been top 3 for sure. The top 3 all made significant mistakes. This was her kind of course.
If you are #1 in the world, you have a shot. She literally earned her spot more than anyone else in the competition.
If a member of the hockey team ruptured an ACL they don't get to decide whether they compete because they earned their place in the roster.
Someone should have realized this did not make any sense from a medical, insurance or competition perspective and pulled her out.
If it was any other athlete, that's probably what would have happened, regardless of the athlete's wishes. It sounds like protocol and duty of care were thrown out of the window because the player became bigger than the team.
If you are #1 in the world, you have a shot. She literally earned her spot more than anyone else in the competition.
If a member of the hockey team ruptured an ACL they don't get to decide whether they compete because they earned their place in the roster.
Someone should have realized this did not make any sense from a medical, insurance or competition perspective and pulled her out.
If it was any other athlete, that's probably what would have happened, regardless of the athlete's wishes. It sounds like protocol and duty of care were thrown out of the window because the player became bigger than the team.
I see what you are saying , but that's just not a good comparison. Multiple skiers have skied a whole season without an ACL. Its risky, but as you could see from practice sessions, it didn't hold LV back. Its one run for all the marbles. I'll take 41 y/o LV everyday of the week and twice on sunday. That course was prime Lindsey Vonn, Goggia, Johnson. By the way, we still won gold?
The training runs are just that: training runs. You have to start one to start the race, but times don't matter at all. Most try a couple lines and don't even tuck the last sections/through the finish. Sometimes they are for a spot on the team (like two Austrian men earlier in the week were having a run off), but rarely. No women on the US DH team were competing for a spot. There were about 10 skiers from all nations, Including Cashman, skiing the training runs to just feel the slope out, they didn't race DH, but will race the SuperG later this week. Fact is: LV isn't real bright. She went to online high school (only). She's an attention ho. Always has been. She makes poor decisions, on and off the snow. . She basically got married to change her last name because her father is a tool. Turned out her husband was the same. There was no way she was going to win without an acl. She just doesn't know what else to do.Celebrating reckless abandon over technique is "our" choice, I guess
They don't use toboggans in World Cup level ski racing. She could've walked out of the finish on her previous injury though--that was ridiculous.
Exactly how did this, "make her a bunch of money"?
If a member of the hockey team ruptured an ACL they don't get to decide whether they compete because they earned their place in the roster.
Someone should have realized this did not make any sense from a medical, insurance or competition perspective and pulled her out.
If it was any other athlete, that's probably what would have happened, regardless of the athlete's wishes. It sounds like protocol and duty of care were thrown out of the window because the player became bigger than the team.
