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11-01-2017, 06:58 PM #26
Bode retired today
Good thing the US Ski Team has plenty of young talent ready to fill the voids of the retiring athletes.
Last edited by Dee Hubbs; 11-01-2017 at 07:47 PM.
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11-01-2017, 10:47 PM #27
A badass for sure. For that matter, anyone who races downhill is a badass IMO, except maybe that north african skier some years back who was making snowplow turns between the gates.
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11-02-2017, 12:24 AM #28
No North Africans race Downhill at the World Cup level.
You have to have certain number of qualification FIS points in order to participate in Downhill or SuperG. There is typically only about 14 Nations that have athletes that have enough points to race in these events.
So no no Africans.
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11-02-2017, 07:04 AM #29
Bode and Bill Johnson two of the biggest bad asses to represent our country on skies.......
thanks for the years BODEalways forward but never straight
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11-02-2017, 07:32 AM #30
And why are the headlines that Bode retired "today"?
He hasn't skied a World Cup race since March of 2014.
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11-02-2017, 08:17 AM #31Registered User
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11-02-2017, 08:56 AM #32
Not any more. They changed the rules after the fiasco with the North African woman and Eddie the Eagle. The woman was the sole member of her country's (Morocco?) winter olympics team. You'd have to be pretty old to remember her. There was also one year in the summer olympics where there was an African swimmer who had to be rescued--couldn't make it to the end of the pool.
Here are a couple of North Africans from 1992. But the woman was worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2X5goN9tEI
for some reason it doesn't want to embed.
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11-02-2017, 08:59 AM #33
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11-02-2017, 09:00 AM #34
glad i was around at the same time he was
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11-02-2017, 10:49 AM #35
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11-02-2017, 03:24 PM #36
He belongs in the class of American racers you guys are throwing around for sure. I know a lot of people think he could have been up there with Stenmark if he had a 95% gear.. but that's just not how he rolled.
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11-02-2017, 03:54 PM #37
You have to wonder how great he could have been if he didn't fight "the system" so much. Not saying he was wrong, but maybe he would have been even better if he took full advantage of the system. He would be Bode, though.
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11-02-2017, 05:39 PM #38
Bode retired today
^^^I sometimes think that too, but then I remember those videos of him lifting weights in that barn, and living in that trailer with his buddy in Europe, he just had to do it that way. It wouldn’t have worked any other way for him.
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11-02-2017, 05:51 PM #39Banned
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11-02-2017, 06:19 PM #40
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11-02-2017, 06:36 PM #41Banned
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11-02-2017, 06:46 PM #42
Bode retired today
You also have to credit him for adopting new technology, and driving the sport forward. When he was a J3, he was rarely on the first page, often finishing on the second page. When he was 18, he goes to Junior Nats at the Loaf. Nobody new who he was. He shows up with a pair of retail level K2 Fours, and wins 3 out of 4 events. Think about that, 3 events, same ski. It's what put him on the map. Keen eye for technology, hard work ethic, contrarian by nature and a pure athlete.
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11-02-2017, 06:53 PM #43
I member the K2 Four story very well.
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11-02-2017, 07:07 PM #44Banned
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11-02-2017, 08:04 PM #45
Yep, that’s why he skied the K2 Four till the end of his career. Amazing, isn’t it?
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11-02-2017, 11:01 PM #46
^ ^ ^ wifey gives you the look for that snark
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11-03-2017, 01:53 AM #47
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11-03-2017, 12:06 PM #48
He had a Derbyflex plate on the Four's
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11-03-2017, 12:48 PM #49
It was so wild. At the end he had those Fours with the derbyflex plate, the atomic shock absorber thingy Michaela uses, and the left and right gate doo-dads, and who knows what else he had bolted to them. BUT, I definitely do know he got some of that DPS secret wax, and with his OK allowed them to start the kickstarter.
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