skategoat Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Wow, was that exciting! Lindsey looked absolutely unbeatable in the qualifiers and final until that second last jump. What was with the grab? Anyone see that CBC piece on the uneasy marriage of snowboarding and the Olympics? Pretty funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skatha Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I just looked on the website to see if there was a vid clip We don't get to see much CBC here in Jesusland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skategoat Posted February 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Unfortunately, CBC nor BBC offer video clips. Let me tell you, it was an absolutely thrilling final. Poor Lindsey, she's going to hear about "the grab" until she draws her last breath. Really too bad because she was in a class all to herself. If she got in front, no one was catching her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncermak Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I haven't seen it yet...but grabs are often used to stabilize oneself in the air... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdboytyler Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 According to this report, Seth Westcott and Lindsey's coach both thought Lindsey was showing off. Yahoo Story Bummer that the USA is now only 3 for 4 snowboarding golds. Can you imagine Kobe going for a 360 dunk to score the game winner in a finals game 7 with the nearest defender 10 ft away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skatha Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I heard it too-photo-op.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Stevens Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I haven't seen this race yet... She grabbed when she was out front and got passed?! Is that the deal? If so, what a f#*kin' bad move. What was the CBC piece on Olympics and snowboarding all about? I did the commentary for Nagano and Salt Lake and that first Olympics was the ****! Snowboarding was a bit of a shocker to the masses back then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinecure Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 There are vids on the nbcolympics.com site. But not until the day after the event. She grabbed on the 2nd to last jump to style the jump and show the crowd how psyched she was. She crashed which gave the other girl a chance to catch up and pass her. Oh well. That's SBX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philfell Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I haven't seen it yet...but grabs are often used to stabilize oneself in the air... She was showboating. UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM dip**** move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derf Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I'm happy for my local rider, Dominique Maltais, bronze medal. http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/sports/snowboard/stories/index.shtml?/story/olympics/national/2006/02/17/Sports/women_snowboardcross060217.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdboytyler Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Check out slide #8. Lindsey is tweaking out a method air. I would call that showboating instead of grabbing for stability. http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/torino2006/slideshow?id=25 There's always next time. Oh yeah, from slide #1, all 3 women on the podium are HOT Contrast that to the woman that won the downhill. That girl looked like a pretty tough dude. Just another reason why snowboarding is better than skiing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skategoat Posted February 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I haven't seen this race yet... She grabbed when she was out front and got passed?! Is that the deal? If so, what a f#*kin' bad move. What was the CBC piece on Olympics and snowboarding all about? I did the commentary for Nagano and Salt Lake and that first Olympics was the ****! Snowboarding was a bit of a shocker to the masses back then... You're *that* Rob Stevens? I remember the newspapers being shocked by your snowboard lingo. I guess they never heard the word "stoked" before. The CBC piece was about the mismatch of snowboarding free-spiritedness and tight-assed IOC types. Jake Burton came on and talked about how snowboarding didn't need the Olympics and never even asked to be included. He made a couple of guarded comments about FIS. The funny part was at the end when the reporter (Mark Lee?) is asking a Canadian boarder about the Olympics and boarder says - "Wow, sorry I spaced out there - so-and-so was killing it". I can't remember the exact quote but he was clearly not paying attention the question and just watching the competition in the background. The angle being - snowboarders are unimpressed by the Olympics and all the pomp and circumstance that surrounds it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skategoat Posted February 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Right after Lindsey's crash, I was immediately reminded of Leon Lett showboating it in the 1993 SuperBowl. I guess I wasn't the only one: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/torino2006/snowboarding/news?slug=yhoo-agoldengaffe&prov=yhoo&type=lgns To Lindsey's credit, she says, "I was having fun," she added. "Snowboarding is fun. I was ahead. I wanted to share with the crowd my enthusiasm. I messed up. Oh well, it happens." Snowboarding sure is adding some great colour to these Olympics. Lindsey's gaffe is going to go down as an unforgettable Olympic moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumpyride Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Win a Gold Medal in Snowboarding in the Olympics, couple of years nobody remembers. Screw up in front of the whole world and still win a Sliver Medal at the Olympics and you will be immortalized, and have the Best Story of the Games. Priceless and even talent can't buy you that kind of fame and laughs for the rest of your life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derf Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Win a Gold Medal in Snowboarding in the Olympics, couple of years nobody remembers. Screw up in front of the whole world and still win a Sliver Medal at the Olympics and you will be immortalized, and have the Best Story of the Games. Priceless and even talent can't buy you that kind of fame and laughs for the rest of your life. I think I'll remember Ross Rebagliati more than Lindsey Jacobellis. What's her name again? Already forgot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateW Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Busting a move in the biggest race of your life = putting fun above winning = highly respectable in and of itself. The press is just beating her up over this, which I think is just plain stupid. It cost her a notch on the podium but she did things her way, she reached for a little extra joy... she broke the mold, and for that I salute her. It's a bummer that it cost her the gold, but she's still bringing home a medal! :) That chick rocks. I hope she comes back in 2010, hucks a rodeo on the final jump, and finishes the race switch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffy Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 After all that hard work and effort ...what a shame.....theres a time and a place to showboat......and that wasnt it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Walters Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Busting a move in the biggest race of your life = putting fun above winning = highly respectable in and of itself. The press is just beating her up over this, which I think is just plain stupid. It cost her a notch on the podium but she did things her way, she reached for a little extra joy... she broke the mold, and for that I salute her.It's a bummer that it cost her the gold, but she's still bringing home a medal! :) That chick rocks. I hope she comes back in 2010, hucks a rodeo on the final jump, and finishes the race switch. You're joking right! Yes fun is above results but when you're 200ft ahed and have the gold sealed why risk throwing it all away so you can look cool. She took a stupid risk and she screwed up bad, after all that training and preperation and fighting her way through the quarterfinal and simifinal she threw it away. One commentator summed it up, she didn't win silver she lost gold. What she did wasn't putting fun before racing it was just being arrogant. It's not over 'til it's over. She's a great snowboarder but that end was hard to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfinsmiley Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Busting a move in the biggest race of your life = putting fun above winning = highly respectable in and of itself........ she did things her way, she reached for a little extra joy... she broke the mold, and for that I salute her.It's a bummer that it cost her the gold, but she's still bringing home a medal! :) That chick rocks. I hope she comes back in 2010, hucks a rodeo on the final jump, and finishes the race switch. I`m of the very same opinion. Sure winning the gold is the top level an athlete can achieve but tweaking out some style is the highest level of self expression a athlete achieve in their chosen feild of expertise. Self expression at that level is Gold evertime I reckon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 she rides a Palmer who was/is well known for styling it over jumps whenever...she is definatly in keeping with the attitude of the company. I like her attitude and regardless of how she did support her as a representitive. The Press just needs to sell news and if they can put someone down, well that makes them happy...Lindsey needs to go hook up with Gretchen and Hanna and go powder riding...let the press try to follow her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO'Brien Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 CBC showed a shot of her coach after she fell and this it said it all. Style is good when you are in the half pipe but I am sure that she wil look back many times and regret what she did. It is much easier for sponsors to sell products with golds than silvers and it is much easier to live with a silver medal if you were beat by a better competitor. I feel for her and hope she can come back in Vancouver and redeem herself, but that's going to be a long 4 years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 She's only 20. She's got 2 more Olympics in her, where she'll be able to vindicate her self. At least... she freakin' better! Or else she'll carry this fumble to her grave. But it's easy to criticize her now. If she had stuck the landing nobody would be saying today "she shouldn't have grabbed that method". Wescott pulled a method on the final jump in one of the qualifying heats, and not even with a seemingly invincible lead like Lindsay's. Does anyone care? No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skategoat Posted February 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 I noticed Wescott's method in the heats. Jasey Jay did the same thing. And I noticed a lot of hard booters taking big air that made me gasp. Impressive and risky, I thought. But remember, in the heats, there's a lot less at stake. The top two go on to the next round and all the tricks I saw were on the last jump where they could've fallen over the finish line. And yes, when you take a risk and it pans out, no one remembers. Crash and burn, it comes back to haunt you. As it should. Right now Canada is losing in hockey to the Swiss 2-0. If the lead holds up, just wait until you hear the uproar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Morales Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 In four years she will have to deal with the new kid on the block.Who could smoke her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotts.Scheinman Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 She was showboating. UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM dip**** move. I couldnt agree with you more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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