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02-22-2018, 05:48 AM #576
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02-22-2018, 06:51 AM #577
Glad she at least got the Bronze.
Hope she can keep it up for another year.watch out for snakes
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02-22-2018, 10:51 AM #578Banned
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02-22-2018, 12:00 PM #579Registered User
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03-16-2018, 04:28 PM #580Banned
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Great wrap on her season. Hoping her knee and back hang in there just long enough to get it done next year.
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11-30-2018, 04:01 PM #581
IMHO, it is time to put a fork in it. I wish Lindsey well, but she needs a dose of reality. It looks like she got it, but is ignoring it.
“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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11-30-2018, 04:09 PM #582
watched part of Lake Louise today. They showed her latest crash. I'd say she's still more viable and competent to compete than Bill Johnson was in his later years. But, she's definitely past her prime. She's kinda like the Tiger Woods of ski racing. Most want to see her come back and dominate another season, but odds are she'll only win a couple times if that on what's left of those knees. The last Olympics was her sign. I still think she'll see the podium several times if she can keep reasonably healthy. This should be her last season of FIS though.
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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11-30-2018, 06:53 PM #583
She is the war horse.
Heal up. Get a couple more WC runs in.
Go find a basketball team to date.
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11-30-2018, 07:33 PM #584
Subbanator is a good match. Both bad asses on ice.
She seemed to survive that crash pretty well. She has more in the tank.
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11-30-2018, 07:44 PM #585
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01-22-2019, 01:57 PM #586
Saw something on another ski site she is still gonna try to make it to the start house this season.
Somebody needs to roofie her and take her away from snow for a couple years.
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01-22-2019, 02:04 PM #587
she skied this past weekend in cortina and managed a 9th place in DH
but she seems very much done
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01-22-2019, 02:22 PM #588
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01-22-2019, 02:27 PM #589
While Vonn's most recent injury was to her left knee — she hyperextended it and sprained a ligament while training in November — the American's right knee is permanently damaged from previous crashes. She's racing with braces on both knees and goes through an extensive rehab process each evening to keep competing.
"I've had four surgeries on my right knee. I've got no LCL (lateral collateral ligament) on my left knee. I've got two braces on. There's only so much I can handle and I might have reached my maximum," Vonn said. "
She also skis with an airbag.Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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01-22-2019, 03:05 PM #590Registered User
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Caught the Cortina Super-G, and she was the only one on par with Shiffrin(!) until ran straight into a gate. That was a strange one (lighting issue?), she made it through the part that was sending most people out, and was coming on strong to the top spot at the time. Was going to be a close one.
IMO, until she actually retires*, it is always worth watching her line up**. Just look at the DH circuit last year -> Started with a couple surprises (incl Shiffrin(!)), but then was pretty much Vonn and Goggia trading crashes and wins, with Lindsey having a 4 DH win streak, a super G win, and a couple podiums to end the season. This was after everyone had already written her off. Anyone that judges her 17-18 based on the Olympic results was really ill informed, and missed an awesome FIS season.
* I think she should have retired a while back if simply being a super successful/legendary skier and slipping into an easy lifestyle with most of her body intact were the goal. She's not racing for anyone but herself anymore, and she's been outside of reasonable decision-making for a while. I hope she gets the record, but I really hope it doesn't get her first!
** Also, IMO, always worth watching any races in Cortina and Wengen -> fantastic courses, and both happened last weekend!
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01-22-2019, 03:09 PM #591
I would say she doesn't quite have "it". But her not quite having "it" is better than 98% who do have it. She doesn't have the strength in her legs and the structure in her ligaments to power through some of those high speed turns. You can tell she has just a tad bit of tentativeness and doesn't 100% trust her legs to do what her mind is telling them to do.
Watching her in the super G, where she skied out through the right hand gate, IMO, two years ago, she makes that turn, and accelerates out of there and blazes the rest of that course to take the lead. Not saying her time would have beat Shiff's but it would have been close. I'm thinking she wants to give it one more chance to not DNF for her last race of her career.
Father time catches up to all of us, some faster than others."We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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01-22-2019, 03:16 PM #592Registered User
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01-23-2019, 09:14 AM #593
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After a lot of physical therapy and time to clearly think things through, we have come to some conclusions about my knee. First, we discovered the reason I had so much pain and muscle shut down in Cortina was due to an impact injury to my peroneal nerve. This most likely came
from the final jump on the first training run in Cortina, but it’s hard to know for sure. After that training run, the pain got progressively worse each day and by Sunday my lower leg was in a lot of pain and my muscles had completely shut down. Now that we know the problem the
next issue is fixing it. So far we haven’t found a solution and as a result I will not be able to compete in tomorrow’s downhill training run. However, since this is a new “injury” per say, I remain hopeful that we can fix it. I’m taking things day by day and we will see what
happens. I know that I might not get the ending to my career that I had hoped for, but if there is a chance, I will take it. Thanks for all of the support you have shown me, it helps keep me going.����❤️www.dpsskis.com
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Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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01-23-2019, 09:27 AM #594
Sounds like a neuropraxia and that means the season will be over by the time she can train in earnest.
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01-23-2019, 09:31 AM #595www.dpsskis.com
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Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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01-23-2019, 09:55 AM #596
What really concerns me in these kinda deals (aging downhiller going for it with iffy body) is a Bill Johnson kind of crippling or even fatal wreck. DH isn’t something to play around with...
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01-23-2019, 11:04 AM #597
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01-23-2019, 11:05 AM #598Registered User
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01-23-2019, 11:55 AM #599
Ask Dale Earnhardt if the wall cares who you are.
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01-23-2019, 12:03 PM #600
Exactly, that's why safety devises are crucial in all types of racing.
...stock car driver Dale Earnhardt altered the seat belt in his No. 3 Chevy Monte Carlo before the Daytona 500...
http://www.espn.com/classic/s/2001/0223/1104412.html
No matter if LV gets any more wins, I hope she can walk by the time she's 60
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