womens downhill

northernneil
northernneil Posts: 1,549
edited February 2010 in The bottom bracket
kicks the @ss of the mens

its carnage and comedy

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  • davelakers
    davelakers Posts: 762
    Laughing at the French girl slipping on her arse after 5 metres!! I could have done better than that!!
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Anja Paerson's fall looked, er, impressive. Thought she was going to be carried off on a stretcher for a while. Freaked out the following racer too (who had crashed on that jump a couple of years ago herself).
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    To be fair, it was quite slippy out there. :wink:
    Cycling weakly
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    That was one hell of a fall. All credit to her for walking away, 60m jump - was that further than Eddie's old British record :shock:

    The French girl falling at the start made me chuckle a bit :lol:
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    How hard is Anja Paerson? I thought that fall would have ended her games and at the time it happened it looked like a season ending or even career ending fall and yet she was back the next day on the same course and picking up a well earned medal in the combined. Disappointed that Vonn fell but at the same time pleased that it meant Anja kept in the medal places.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    davelakers wrote:
    Laughing at the French girl slipping on her ars* after 5 metres!! I could have done better than that!!

    Unfortunately the poor girl isn't laughing though. She snapped her anterior cruciate ligament doing that :shock:
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    It's amazing that Paerson comes out of that massive off with some bruising and the one who topples over a few metres from the start ends up with an ACL injury :?
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    I know. Because the French girls "off" was low speed her bindings didn't pop, and the skis stayed on, the skis staying on can cause all sorts of problems.

    If we skied the same courses they do, and try to be as aggressive as they do with recreational skis set to the normal recreational settings they'd probably pop off while we ski without crashing. They have to have their binding settings pretty tight so they stay on most of the time, unless they crash at speed - when the skis should come off.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Paerson does have a lot of natural padding.

    OK, maybe it's muscle.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Too right, she is certainly on the chunky side for a pro sportswoman. Must be very flexible as well, the initial part of that crash she was pretty much in a limbo dancing position. I'm amazed she didn't tear some muscles at the very least.
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Never been to Whistler, but I've skiied on the Lake Louise downhill course.
    All I can say is [removed by censor].
    I was shitting myself, doing about 20mph and zig-zagging all over the place let alone bloody 70mph stright down that they do.
    Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.

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