Sunday, February 19, 2006

Womans Boardercross


Hil and I have been camped in front of a TV the last few days. Our dear friend Leslie, lent us her telly, so now we've become Olympic junkies.

The short track speed skating sure looks like fun, but the best thing we've seen (by a longshot) was the woman's boardercross final.

I nearly fell out of our futon when I saw American rider Lindsey Jacobellis (leading by a mile), try to style a method on the last jump, and fall - ergo taking silver. Switzerland's Tanya Frieden, who must believe in miracles, was gifted her gold. In some ways, you gotta shake your head, but at the same time, I'm pretty impressed that Jacobellis was trying to throw out some old-school snowboard style out there.

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PS - Good work Dominique getting Bronze for Canada. And Maelle Ricker, had this been a perfect world, would've surely won. She was consistently first out of the gate. Did you see how hard she augered herself into the ground at that first jump? yowch.

PPS - for Vancouver 2010, they should change the format and give style points on the last jump in the boardercross. That way, even if you're in second, you could pull something awesome, and still take the gold. Now that would be incredible!