You don't care about the Olympics. That's cool. But if you don't get revved up with this performance last night, you have completely lost your sports heart.
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Did I mention that things sucked for Lindsey Vonn? She got off easy.
She doesn't luge.
The Vancouver Olympics are quickly being known as a luger's nightmare. The track features the world's longest luge drop and it's causing havoc among the Olympians.
The luge sleds get up over 90 miles per hour during this drop and control has become a major issue. Already there had been two big crashes during test runs which luckily didn't result in injuries.
Then today, 21-year-old Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili crashed. He lost control going 95 miles per hour, flew off the track and hit a metal pole. He was air-lifted to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Now the Olympics take a somber tone. Injured shins might suck, but no we're talking about a real chance of dying. Lugers aren't going to slow down going through this track. They want to win. Whoever gets the gold will have earned it on this track.
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Imagine working out and practicing for an entire off-season only to get hurt before the regular season starts. That would really suck.
Now multiply that by four years.
I can't imagine what has to be going through Lindsey Vonn's head as she attempts to move forward with her Olympic ski bid despite a bruised shin that is making things difficult. I know if it were my head, it'd be saying "are we advanced enough to create bionic legs?"
You might snicker when you see that Vonn's four-year quest for the Vancouver gold has possibly been thwarted by a bruised shin. After all, you probably played through bruised ribs or that sprained knee to help the team make the playoffs.
To you I answer: you've never skied downhill at a professional level. Those people go really fast. They scare me. In a good way.
The question isn't whether Vonn can physically make it down a hill on skis. I'm guessing she could. The problem is that she's being timed. She has to go downhill faster than everyone else on a bum leg.
That's the downside of individual sports: When there's a hitch in your giddyup, everyone notices.
Lindsey Vonn picked a terrible time to get injured. Or maybe it's the perfect time. After all, this is how Olympic legends are born.
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