Road to Torino

Same as Jeff Brushie throwing a method in the middle of the OP pro in 1990 Lindseys method and crash were pure snowboarding.

Sounds like a few couch jockeys who think they could be ESPN anchors are talkign trash.

Shaun Plamer would have done the exact same thing .....but landed it.

I'm not amazed at the blatant commercialism that seems to exemplify the Olympic experience these days.  Inevitable I guess when you think what all this costs now but still when Lindsey Jacobellis did her 'thing' the other day and lost the gold medal I was still surprised when no one stepped up to mention what seems incredibly obvious to me.  Snowboarding is a 'happy' sport in that it is all about 'hanging it out' and 'doing what feels good'.  At it's beginning it was a 'rebel' thing and was outlawed in many resorts and is now considered 'cool' with the long haired wild boys and cool chicks who wow the crowds and do amazing things with their athletic talent and wild abandon which we can now all enjoy on the world stage of the Olympics.  But isn't life itself also a wild thing?  Isn't our lifes blood really all about freedom and discovery, experimentation and fun?  Lindsey is my personal hero right now because she did what was natural and fun.  Sure she lost the gold medal and it may cost her in ways untold financially and otherwise but so what.  She was hanging it out and doing what felt good and that's what life, and snowboarding and supposedly the Olympics themselves are all about.  So come on Bob Costas and the rest of you suits that make up most of the species.  Get off your golden parachute and your high horse, think back to the people and to what sport is supposed to be about if you can and tell Lindsey we love her not in spite of what she did but BECAUSE of what she did.  Lindsey, you rock and we love you for going for it.  That's platinum, not silver around your neck and you're the best so keep up the good work and we'll see you on the hill if we get lucky because most of the time we'll be in the clubhouse along with all the other wannabees.  

Stop throwing Lindsey under the bus!  She made it to the Olympics, through the qualifiers, and down the course in the final race because she is a risk-taker.  That is part of the race. It was exciting!  I hope to see her compete again.  She really puts a buzz in the air.