Bode today---results mentioned

[Ski]

I thought this was funny. It's off the Eurosport main page, following Bode's little tantrum today in which he said "F this" and refused to race in the downhill. It's as if Britney Spears was a World Cup racer...

 

 

Eurosport Quickpoll

World championships - Biggest disappointment at Are?

 

[skimom]

I was waiting for the Bode comment...

[Papasteeze]

officially injured?

[Ski]

I assumed it was just the odd sounding translation. When a racer pulls out at the last minute, they provide a reason to the officials. I suppose it's also a courtesy, since there's disruption to everyone else, to some degree---just simple things like getting psyched to things like last base polish.

 

Seems like most people see it otherwise, but it sure looks to me like Bode is a train wreck. There's one thing to go all out and crash a lot, but his amazing inability to even finish a slalom run is something I've never seen. It happens, though. Look at what happened to Caroline Lalive in big events---she just kept falling over. Not crashing, necessarily, but just laying over on her outside edge and falling down.

[sexkitten]

Pressure will do that to a person.

[Ski]

Pressure will do that to a person.

 

Yes, with Lalive it was the pressure. There was just that extra notch that Worlds and Olympics rose to that she couldn't handle. It wasn't family or alcohol or anything else for her; just a breakdown. It was hard to watch...each race would end with her sitting along the side of a course crying. I always thought she was awesomely hot, too, which made it more sad:

[Papasteeze]

I always thought she was awesomely hot, too, which made it more sad:

 

More like steaming! where is she now?

[Ski]

IDK---doing whatever retired racers do...she would have been a great comentator, but there are no real jobs for that anymore.