Lindsey Vonn crash

Sure your son has and will watch even more horrible stuff in American tv daily.

The US sent four women in the downhill. There was no alternate that had a ghost of a chance to ski will. Even without an ACL, Lindsey was better than the US's 5th best skier. The US has some amazing skiers but is actually not that deep.

We'll just throw this out there as she seems to have support from others on the ski team.

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Skiers back Vonn's call to race at Olympics, even after crash

The fallout from Lindsey Vonn's devastating crash in the Olympic downhill included a key question: Should she have been allowed on a course that is dangerous even to perfectly healthy skiers? The answer from the skiing commun...

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No, she was better than all 4. She earned her # 1 spot with actuall races this season. No style points in running or downhill skiing! She earned it over everyone.

Lindsay was in way over her head with the injury.

After only making two turns (11 seconds in) she is out of control.

Couldn’t load her left downhill leg causing her body to rotate onto her right where she was sitting back just before the rise that adds Gs. Nightmare stuff, she already knows all hell will break loose & the race is over.

you're underplaying it. vonn was first place in the ski circuit standings this season. this situation was akin to an american is dominating the early DL races and wins trials, then pops a hammy in training or at a later DL meet. then tries to rehab it real fast, probably too fast. on merit she had a great season, she was not called up on history, her comeback was working. she was making podiums.

then the ACL. honestly when i watched earlier racers go down the hill i was like those first few turns are going to be hard on her knees. but she actually crashed getting too aggressive and not because the knee gave.

i don't think the knee helped when she crashed. when you're helicoptering off a gate snag you could use some shock absorbers. and she just went down in an awkward mess hence the broken leg.

i would say that the normal exit for female skiiers is they go down the hill slowly in some cute german mountain village girl outfit. i am serious. they go slowly down the mountain taking a lap of honor, throwing petals. she does that she makes it down fine. but you're not winning a medal and not really racing. she doesn't do cute.

this was evel knievel stuff. i figured either a high finish or she ends up in a heap. i thought the odds unfortunately favored heap. a lot of the stuff they have to do requires good legs and shock absorbance.

to come at this from a slightly different direction, i have watched skiing a while, though less the last couple years when NBC lost a lot of the rights (similar to DL in track). i didn't recognize 1/3 or more of the skiiers -- including the silver medalist -- and wondered where a bunch of the women's downhillers had gone. i assume knees and broken legs. it's a tough business.

yeah, i keep seeing people acting like either the knee gave, or affected her line. it looked to me like she was trying to go close on the right to the gate she hit, to then sweep hard left on the long curve after that. i think it's more like she was thinking about that curve already and forgot to clear the gate she was on. smack, done.

it's like forgetting to get your trail leg over the hurdle. you get the front leg over, you're thinking about back to running, the next hurdle. ooops, snag your trail leg. which can just throw you straight down to the track and ugly.

or the football player who fumbles the handoff or drops the pass because he's looking downfield thinking about his next move.

Any links to non-biased details? Isn't saying they never tested positive and that whereabouts reporting is hard the excuse of every single athlete in every sport that misses too many tests? I mean, you can't test positive for the tests you missed, so I'm not sure how much the in-competition tests and the tests you took when you knew you were clear prove?

Any teammate speaking out against Lindsay or beating her in a practice run would be blacklisted. Big business

Lindsay was not taking an aggressive line she was 100% out of control well before the gate. That why she was launched sideways, I raced DH in college.
A ruptured/torn ACL is nonsense to ski on.

I love your Metallica references !

Fiona O'Keefe,

Awww... how cute!

She could have taken the mountain's hand off to Neverland.

Does this explain why Nero is a multiple time Olympic champion?

Why are there five pages on this crash and nothing on the girl that actually won a gold medal??

Someone named Breezy.

Is that really her name?

I could get behind Picabo - kind of.