2026 Winter Olympics

GornikDaze said:
Quality BBC comms…

With Vonn lying on the course in pain … “it’s likely we’ll have a course hold”
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His last commentary words whilst she was skiing, just before she crashed were “It is possible” (he was about to complete the sentence to say, to ski with her injuries), … but just as soon as he’d uttered it, it suddenly wasn’t.
 
jimharri said:
But true. Absolutely ludicrous decision (hers, I'm assuming) to compete. How the fuck would she have had the manoeuvrability on basically one leg?
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Not really. She'd already done a couple of decent enough runs down the course in the previous 48 hrs. Vonn has more than earned the right to go out on her own terms. She was never going to walk away if there was the possibility of pulling something incredible off.

If you think objectively about what they're doing they're all completely tapped anyway, so the fact she's maybe 2% more tapped than the rest of them is probably neither here nor there!
 
JRockBlues said:
Confirmed that Vonn broke her leg now. Unfortunate for her.

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I didn’t want to add a like for the post but thank you for posting an update. Either Vonn was stupid for for going against medical evidence or stupidly brave but she is an athlete who push their bodies to extreme. I hope she recovers well.
 
normskih said:
I didn’t want to add a like for the post but thank you for posting an update. Either Vonn was stupid for for going against medical evidence or stupidly brave but she is an athlete who push their bodies to extreme. I hope she recovers well.
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Certain types of sports, including some of the alpine ones, are about pushing things to their absolute limits and accepting that staying the right side of the edge of those limits is not a precise science and there may be consequences. Vonn more than most would be aware of the potential consequences. On another day, she doesn't clip that gate and the knee holds up and she medals, or maybe she crashes further down, or maybe she gets fifth or something. The only thing that was certain was that having got to the gate she was going to ski as close to the edge as possible like she has her entire career. If that's the last thing she does as a professional skier (seems likely but then no one had her down as coming back in the first place) it lacks the fairy tale ending but I suspect that was never the point for her. It was simply about seeing how far she could push things and what was possible, to explore what she was capable of. That it would end in agony on the side of a hill rather than on the podium was a risk most of us would be unwilling to take but the one thing it was never going to be for her was a round of applause simply for getting there and taking part.
 
threespires said:
Certain types of sports, including some of the alpine ones, are about pushing things to their absolute limits and accepting that staying the right side of the edge of those limits is not a precise science and there may be consequences. Vonn more than most would be aware of the potential consequences. On another day, she doesn't clip that gate and the knee holds up and she medals, or maybe she crashes further down, or maybe she gets fifth or something. The only thing that was certain was that having got to the gate she was going to ski as close to the edge as possible like she has her entire career. If that's the last thing she does as a professional skier (seems likely but then no one had her down as coming back in the first place) it lacks the fairy tale ending but I suspect that was never the point for her. It was simply about seeing how far she could push things and what was possible, to explore what she was capable of. That it would end in agony on the side of a hill rather than on the podium was a risk most of us would be unwilling to take but the one thing it was never going to be for her was a round of applause simply for getting there and taking part.
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Exactly. She decided she'd give it her all for one last Olympics and didn't let anything get in the way of trying to make it a dream ending. Absolutely incredible to still try despite the ligament damage and she can look back knowing she gave it everything and hold her head high - very high in fact when it was up in the helicopter!

What a woman and what an effort. It wasn't to be but what an inspiration.
 
supercity88 said:
Exactly. She decided she'd give it her all for one last Olympics and didn't let anything get in the way of trying to make it a dream ending. Absolutely incredible to still try despite the ligament damage and she can look back knowing she gave it everything and hold her head high - very high in fact when it was up in the helicopter!

What a woman and what an effort. It wasn't to be but what an inspiration.
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She won two World Cup downhills this season...in her forties. That alone was incredible and inspiring, despite the way its ended it's still one of the great sporting comebacks ever and will be viewed as such I think.
 
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