There are not many Olympic sports I care about – or that many sports I care about in general – but I have followed World Cup skiing for as long as I can remember and I'm super pissed about what happened to Julia Mancuso in the GS. Yes, things happen, and yes, safety first, but that being the case, the fog should have stopped the first race long before either Vonn or Mancuso even hit the course. I only hope that Mancuso's two silver medals inspire her to victory on the World Cup... enough of these damn Olympics.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Robbed
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There are not many Olympic sports I care about – or that many sports I care about in general – but I have followed World Cup skiing for as long as I can remember and I'm super pissed about what happened to Julia Mancuso in the GS. Yes, things happen, and yes, safety first, but that being the case, the fog should have stopped the first race long before either Vonn or Mancuso even hit the course. I only hope that Mancuso's two silver medals inspire her to victory on the World Cup... enough of these damn Olympics.
There are not many Olympic sports I care about – or that many sports I care about in general – but I have followed World Cup skiing for as long as I can remember and I'm super pissed about what happened to Julia Mancuso in the GS. Yes, things happen, and yes, safety first, but that being the case, the fog should have stopped the first race long before either Vonn or Mancuso even hit the course. I only hope that Mancuso's two silver medals inspire her to victory on the World Cup... enough of these damn Olympics.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Franz Klammer & Annemarie Moser-Pröell
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While we're in the Olympic spirit:
Innsbruck, Austria, 1976 – kind of messy looking (this is where Bode Miller got his style) but it's one of the greatest Olympic DH wins of all time.
The apt comparison for Lindsey Vonn would be Annemarie Moser-Pröell, who won six overall World Cups in the '70s – five of them in a row, as illustrated in this photo:
There's not much about her on the web other than her own website.
While we're in the Olympic spirit:
Innsbruck, Austria, 1976 – kind of messy looking (this is where Bode Miller got his style) but it's one of the greatest Olympic DH wins of all time.
The apt comparison for Lindsey Vonn would be Annemarie Moser-Pröell, who won six overall World Cups in the '70s – five of them in a row, as illustrated in this photo:
There's not much about her on the web other than her own website.Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Misty Mountain Hop
I almost forgot, I also found this really cool postcard at the flea market—in fact this is probably the coolest thing I picked up Sunday, and it was only 25 cents. It's a postcard of Franconia Notch, NH, but the photograph side is a flexi-disc (a very thin record). When you play it on your turntable it tells you about the White Mountains. Or at least I assume that's what it does; it's a 78 and the hole is too small to fit on my turntable. Still, it's cool to look at.
Emily and I camped near Mt. Lafayette a couple years ago and took the tram to the top. New Hampshire is definitely in my top five states.
Mt. Lafayette is the hill where Bode Miller grew up, and there are tons of posters of him around the lodge. Bode just won his second overall FIS World Cup championship and edged out Yakima's Phil Mahre to become the winningest American ski racer of all time.
Lindsay Vonn won the women's overall this year, making this the first year that Americans have won both titles since Mahre and Tamara McKinney did the same in 1983.
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