Winter Olympics Thread...aka 2010-2011 FIS thread

[Joemailman]

In Women's Hockey, Canada beat Slovakia 18-0. Still a huge gap between the haves and the havenots in women's hockey. Women's moguls was pretty interesting. How they don't all end up with bad knees I don't understand. Maybe they do at some point.

[Scott Campbell]

Women's moguls was pretty interesting. How they don't all end up with bad knees I don't understand. Maybe they do at some point.

That discipline tends to ski on the back of their skis. That puts a lot of tension on your ACL's, and you combine that with smacking the crap out of all of those bumps and you increase the odds of snapping one exponentially.

There's a ski academy here in UT tied to the best prep school in the valley. They routinely have 25% of the top junior skiers in the country enrolled there. We hear the stories about how these kids sit around and compare scars.

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they said one of the girls last night was already skiing with a torn acl

thats nuts

[Patler]

they said one of the girls last night was already skiing with a torn acl

thats nuts

Another they said has had 6 knee surgeries, three on each knee.

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i remember my doctor once telling me when i was younger that for some reason i can't remember now, women are much more susceptible to knee injuries while skiing then men are

it has something to be with slightly different muscle structure or different bone structure or too top heavy or something like that

[Patler]

i remember my doctor once telling me when i was younger that for some reason i can't remember now, women are much more susceptible to knee injuries while skiing then men are

it has something to be with slightly different muscle structure or different bone structure or too top heavy or something like that

Relatively wider hips and shorter leg component lengths, causing more angular strain on the knee joints. (I studied it when my daughter had ACL surgery years ago! )

[Scott Campbell]

i remember my doctor once telling me when i was younger that for some reason i can't remember now, women are much more susceptible to knee injuries while skiing then men are

it has something to be with slightly different muscle structure or different bone structure or too top heavy or something like that

They actually have a training video out now demonstrating the correct way to fall.

[Scott Campbell]

Bode posted a pretty good downhill run - currently good enough for a Bronze. I hope it holds up.

[Harlan Huckleby]

The report from the Olympic officials claims that the death was due to human error, not the design of the structure.

The president of Georgia said, "Since when does an error in a sporting event lead to a death?"

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The report from the Olympic officials claims that the death was due to human error, not the design of the structure.

The president of Georgia said, "Since when does an error in a sporting event lead to a death?"

yeah, the olympic folks could not be handling this any worse

its disgraceful to blame the guy right after he dies

yes he messed up and lost control, but that happens in that sport, they needed to plan for the worse and they didn't

like someone said yesterday on tv, if nothing was truly wrong with the track, then why did they rush out and increase the wall height in that sport and cover up those posts?

[Scott Campbell]

The report from the Olympic officials claims that the death was due to human error, not the design of the structure.

The president of Georgia said, "Since when does an error in a sporting event lead to a death?"

yeah, the olympic folks could not be handling this any worse

its disgraceful to blame the guy right after he dies

yes he messed up and lost control, but that happens in that sport, they needed to plan for the worse and they didn't

like someone said yesterday on tv, if nothing was truly wrong with the track, then why did they rush out and increase the wall height in that sport and cover up those posts?

Not only was it wrong, it was incredibly insensitive.

[Scott Campbell]

Good to see Bode get a bronze.

[Freak Out]

Good to see Bode get a bronze.

If he would have gotten the chance to ski later in the draw he would have won.

[Scott Campbell]

Good to see Bode get a bronze.

If he would have gotten the chance to ski later in the draw he would have won.

I was happy enough to see him not DNF again.

[Freak Out]

Good to see Bode get a bronze.

If he would have gotten the chance to ski later in the draw he would have won.

I was happy enough to see him not DNF again.

True.....but most of the course was in shadow when the early guys went and once it got light the times got a little better with the improved visibility.
Still....great showing.