If I were them I'd be pretty pissed once I saw that quote, I'd be like if you don't like bob sledding don't do it. I'd be so mad and wouldn't want her pushing my sled.
If I were them I'd be pretty pissed once I saw that quote, I'd be like if you don't like bob sledding don't do it. I'd be so mad and wouldn't want her pushing my sled.
agreed.
Thought the same thing. She may be a virgin, but she's an attention whore.
Their bobsled team has been mentioned for once in it's existence....they like it.
They need only to be upset with themselves. If they were fast enough to run in the Olympics, they would. You'd have to be crazy not to.
let's say you are a no-name actor. Let's say you had a role in a movie locked up. But then James Franco calls the producer and expresses interest in the role because he doesn't have anything to do in June. Franco gets the role, you get a phone call.
Are you disappointed? Sure, but you figure Franco is a better actor and box office draw, so you understand the decision.
And you figure Franco will be on to the next thing soon and you have a shot at the next one.
you're missing a detail.
lolo is a complete tool.
I interpreted it the way you guys are at first, but are you sure she doesn't just mean the training is very demanding?
ohoh you wrote:
Thought the same thing. She may be a virgin, but she's an attention whore.
Well put.
She's got beautiful ears, but if that quote is correct she's put her foot in it, ooooops! Comes across as being me,me,me doesn't it? Still, I appreciate her honesty, she should be more tactful and respectful of her teammates tho. Sure they'll forgive her if she helps them get a bobsled medal.
I thought the same thing, kind of a jerk comment.
So she takes someone else's spot that she doesn't want for the sole purpose of winning a medal, then insults the rest of them publicly.
If she thinks that lowly of bobsledding, I doubt she will actually appreciate the medal once she has it. Kind of a basket case.
A buddy of mine made the Olympic Trials in 2004, but wasn't close to the top 3. Afterwards he looked into bobsledding and did some preliminary stuff, but he didn't want to move to the training center and go all out for it.
It stinks for bobsledders that somebody can use their sport as a backup so easily.
15mph wrote:
I interpreted it the way you guys are at first, but are you sure she doesn't just mean the training is very demanding?
I think everyone needs to relax. When she said 'bobsledding', I think she meant 'any other sport that is not the 100mh where I've spent the last 10-15 years training specifically for'. It's not an insult or downgrading the bobsled sport. She would, like the rest of us, rather stick to the thing that we've dedicated almost most of our life to. Doesn't mean she thinks the bobsled is a lesser event.
Yeah! And as a distance runner I've always chuckled at the sprinters posturing around on the track, taking 10 minutes to walk back to the start of each 40m rep like it's such hard work. Bobsled is a badass sport, it's life and death. It's not an easy backup. You have to be 100% committed to the event, you wouldn't want a self centered liability next to you when you set off down the ice!
Hypothetically speaking of course. I'm sure Lolo's lovely.
agip wrote:
let's say you are a no-name actor. Let's say you had a role in a movie locked up. But then James Franco calls the producer and expresses interest in the role because he doesn't have anything to do in June. Franco gets the role, you get a phone call.
Are you disappointed? Sure, but you figure Franco is a better actor and box office draw, so you understand the decision.
And you figure Franco will be on to the next thing soon and you have a shot at the next one.
You forgot the part where Franco gets interviewed, calls the movie a second rate piece of work and only did it because he hadn't won an award for anyting else he'd ever done.
Did you read the article?
She's saying that she absolutely wouldn't have considered bobsledding if it weren't for her failure to medal in track. Simple statement of truth.
She also says now that if she gets medals in both track and bobsledding, she doesn't know which she'll love more. That sounds like someone who has learned to appreciate the sport a great deal. Shouldn't offend her team at all.
Last year I went on a date with a young woman who was hoping to make the 2014 Winter Olympics in skeleton (like bobsled, but one person lying on their stomach). She basically just said to me that she had considered quitting the sport several times, but just wanted to be in the Olympics, and was sticking with it because the luge/skeleton/bobsled sports were among the easiest to make it. So, yeah, Lolo isn't the only one with this attitude.
she'll end up with as many medals as chewbacca.
Do you think they were offended by the movie "Cool Runnings"? Because this is pretty much the same thing, only in America.