US Women's Olympic Ski Team

ZKindaGuy

Lindsey Vonn - 5 DNF's...did anyone explain to this clueless dead-head that you have to finish an event before you can even win anything? Completely over-rated. The "Anna Kournikova" of US Women Olympic Ski Team. Her being a skiing favorite in the tabloids is completely and entirely dependent on her all-American "girl-next-door" looks instead of having any real consistent skiing skill. The only thing she can consistently be counted on to do is DNF.

Julia Mancuso - Yet another over-rated US Women's Olympic hopefull. She can't even pull it off when she has been given a clear advantage that the other women skiiers didn't have.....an extra try and coaching corrections before she got her extra chance. But what she did do good is cry for the camera in order to lay the groundwork to loose to the better more serious skiers who don't lay down to adversity. She had a clear chance to show some dignity and perserverence but instead chose to lay in the snow on camera and feel sorry for herself to drum up sympathy....the true sign of an athlete who is on top of their game....

To the two great US Women's Olympic "Athletes" .....

Ryan@Forged

Just pointing out that you are ripping on 2 individual Olympic medalists. If you medal in the Olympics I would hardly say they were overrated. There are some amazing athletes worldwide. Regarding Vonn, I guess you missed the part where she suffered a serious shin injury a week prior to the start of the games which almost held her out of the Olympics altogether Lindsey Vonn reveals serious injury to shin - TODAY in Vancouver Where I would agree that Mancuso seemed over-dramatic, I think you are missing how emotional it must have been. Can you imagine training for 4 years for something just to have 1 small mistake cost you everything you had trained for? Regardless, as I mentioned before, both of these US athletes have Olympic medals. I believe they deserve a little more respect.

Ok, done with my point. Back to work.

ZKindaGuy

Respect is earned...Vonn doesn't cut any respect with 5 DNF's. And Mancuso is a cry baby. I trained for 3 years 6 of 7 days a week and continued working 40 hours a week and was married to boot. The day I was to compete a tornado blew the entire town off the map. So needless to say I had a couple choice words to say at the sky. Beyond that I immediately put my head back into the game to get ready for the substitute date held a month later in some other location. I didn't lay on the ground and cry like a baby for the news cameras.

And as for Vonn, a well trained seriously minded winning athlete who really wants to win wouldn't make any reference to any injury they might be harboring before they perform. I had a ACL operation (cutting..not scoped) a week before a 50 mile race. I was on the bike 3 days after the operation swelling and all and did a 37 mile practice run. I didn't create multiple excuses so that I could have an excuse in case I lost. In fact no one knew except me and the medical personel who treated me.

Well guess what...Lindsay Vonn just did her 6th DNF with yet another f*ck-up on the final woman's parallel giant slalom. And the announcer put it so appropoe by saying "I wonder which of Lindsay's many injuries she will cite for this DNF".

And then they had the audacity to announce her as an Olympic Champion.....that's a crock of ....she doesn't deserve any respect for her complete lack of performance.

As I said before Vonn is the Anna Kournikova of woman's skiing...completely over-rated and only popular because of the sports press being infatuated with her "girl-next-door" looks....not any real serious talent....

Pushing_Tin

Well this is America, hot chicks get a free pass. And I don't think they are to be blamed for media infatuation with them. The same thing happened in the last olympics when Bode Miller was hyped beyond belief and he was a total douche in the end.

ZKindaGuy

I certainly hope the US ski team officials putting the team together for the next Olympics has learned that Vonn is really just a loser getting a free ride off the coat-tails of this country's love affair with vanity....unless of course they want to give a medal for the highest number of sequential DNF's exhibited by any olympic participant in a single Olympic game set.

AutoX Z

Yea totally overrated...

Quoted from wikipedia cause I'm lazy:

She won the gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in downhill, the first American woman to do so.

She is also the first American woman to win back-to-back overall World Cup championships, in 2008 and 2009, and won World Cup discipline championships in downhill (also back-to-back) and Super G (the first American woman to do so).
With her Olympic gold medal, 31 World Cup wins in four disciplines (downhill, Super G, slalom and super combined) and two World Championship gold medals (plus two World Championship silver medals), she has become the most successful American woman skier in history.

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2013 SCCA Solo National Champion
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Ryan@Forged

this...

ZKindaGuy

All the prvious wins don't amount to jack-squat if she cannot keep it together after something goes wrong in some single event and it bleeds over into everything else including screwing the chances of the other team members then she is not good enough to have a team membership spot.

I as a fellow team member would like to have some reasonable assurrance that if a fellow team member screws up one event that the team member won't let it affect anything else they do.

That is a very good reason to dump her from the team. She is totally unreliable except for DNFing. She has that action down pat. And there are plenty of undiscovered folks out there that don't have their head up their azz and are hungry enough to understand the serious responsibility being an Olympic team member.

Lindsay Vonn.....how about doing the US ski team a favor....resign from the team spot you have so thoroughly wasted and go back home and play with your Ken and Barbie ski dolls.....maybe with playing with the dolls you can at least simulate what it is like to finish an event...