**The Winter Olympics**

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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,531
    Italians are kicking some ass!
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,531
    So we get to have our favorites, and non-favorites. Right?
    That said

    I hope Eileen Gu finishes dead last. 
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,452
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
    GlowGirl said:
    The Winter Olympics always makes me think about how when I was a young kid I had a huge crush on Eric Heiden. I remember cutting out pictures of him from magazines and hanging them on my bedroom wall. 
    Im old.
    I remember Franz Klammer and his Olympic downhill Gold. He flew down that hill. 

    I remember that. The Olympics used to be a such big deal. Must watch TV. If I remember correctly, I think NBC made it pay per view and my interest was lost. They destroyed that event.
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,531
    Get_Right said:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
    GlowGirl said:
    The Winter Olympics always makes me think about how when I was a young kid I had a huge crush on Eric Heiden. I remember cutting out pictures of him from magazines and hanging them on my bedroom wall. 
    Im old.
    I remember Franz Klammer and his Olympic downhill Gold. He flew down that hill. 

    I remember that. The Olympics used to be a such big deal. Must watch TV. If I remember correctly, I think NBC made it pay per view and my interest was lost. They destroyed that event.
    The 76 American boxing team. That was "must watch" TV.
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,597
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
    Get_Right said:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
    GlowGirl said:
    The Winter Olympics always makes me think about how when I was a young kid I had a huge crush on Eric Heiden. I remember cutting out pictures of him from magazines and hanging them on my bedroom wall. 
    Im old.
    I remember Franz Klammer and his Olympic downhill Gold. He flew down that hill. 

    I remember that. The Olympics used to be a such big deal. Must watch TV. If I remember correctly, I think NBC made it pay per view and my interest was lost. They destroyed that event.
    The 76 American boxing team. That was "must watch" TV.
    And the 1980 hockey team. 
  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 921
    Woman’s Downhill Race stopped right now - Lindsey Vonn dnf. + bad luck / legs twisted - probably helicopter on the way 

  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 921
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    standing before her run 

  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 32,257
    Such big heart but her knee was already done.  Crazy balls to try and Olympic downhill course with no knee. 
    That lady is a beast.  
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 4,002
    That was brutal. It was tough listening to her screaming after the crash. 

  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,681
    I can’t believe she actually tried to ski on that knee! Really bad decision and now the new damage she has done to that knee could really affect her coming years! There’s no way she’ll professionally compete again 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 921
    Easily horrific video+audio scenes, even more if you knew the details about her knees (incl. the latest news) in advance. I was not expecting a „Hollywood story“ and saw a kind of horror show on Sunday morning.

  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,531
    Sad
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,531
    Giant Slalom Parallel Snowboarding?

    I like it!

    Again, these skiers are lunatics.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,531
    A couple of these men's snowboarders are in their 40's. Good for them!

    And some of these race times? Geez, you lose by 0.02 of a second and you are going home.

    Pressure
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  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 921
    edited February 8
    josevolution said:
    I can’t believe she actually tried to ski on that knee! Really bad decision and now the new damage she has done to that knee could really affect her coming years! There’s no way she’ll professionally compete again 
    I wonder whether the ACL injury/weak knee II lead to the hit of the orange sign, what caused the crash.  
     
    At this point the knee was still „ok“/start condition. She knows the answer and will show up with a answer to the public for sure.
    Anyway, ultimately the landing was fatal.
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  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 4,002
    edited February 8
    D-Day said:
    josevolution said:
    I can’t believe she actually tried to ski on that knee! Really bad decision and now the new damage she has done to that knee could really affect her coming years! There’s no way she’ll professionally compete again 
    I wonder whether the ACL injury/weak knee II lead to the hit of the orange sign, what caused the crash.  
     
    At this point the knee was still „ok“/start condition. She knows the answer and will show up with a answer to the public for sure.
    Anyway, ultimately the landing was fatal.
    She was aggressive and cut that turn too tightly. You can see her extend her arms before the gate knowing it was going to be close. She was an inch or two too deep. Less than that and she just hits the gate and comes away fine.
    She was third in training on Friday so knee was holding up.  

    Post edited by eddiec on
  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 921
    Thanks. „third in training“ (two days before) speaks for itself.
  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 4,002
    edited February 8

    That Crans Montana race never should have went ahead. (Where she injured her knee.) Conditions were awful.
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  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 921
    edited February 8
    named “hit“ by me but

  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,523
    Due to NBC copyright reasons, here is an artist's recreation of Vonn's last ride ..


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