Off Topic Winter Olympic

[HHH]

Did you watch her video?

If she hadn’t ruptured her ACL the week before, her surgeon wouldn’t have been there, and if she’d had the same crash she would have lost her leg. Or so she says, in sure there would have been another capable surgeon around but who knows.

People debate whether she should have competed, or if she would have crashed with a fully functioning left knee but the fact remains she was one of the fastest in training, one of the fastest in qualifying, expected to finish top 3 and her crash was caused by being too tight to the line, not because her knee failed her. She’s also no worse off for the ACL injury as that crash would have ****ed it anyway.

I say fair enough to her decision to compete, I think most people would have done the same in her position. She’s got however many years ahead of her to make boring safer choices in her retirement.

Definitely went out with a bang.

Suppose it comes down to what you value the most. Your health or an olympic medal.

Sometimes you need a good corner man to know when to throw in the towel.

 

[bradymk2]

Suppose it comes down to what you value the most. Your health or an olympic medal.

Sometimes you need a good corner man to know when to throw in the towel.

Elite sportspeople would all probably choose olympic medal over health

Diff breed aint they

 

[Amin Arrears]

Suppose it comes down to what you value the most. Your health or an olympic medal.

Sometimes you need a good corner man to know when to throw in the towel.

Don’t think her health is in a worse position than it would have been anyway though. If her knee buckled and caused the crash then fair enough but she was just too tight coming around the turn and got the gate hooked under her arm, which caused her to rotate in mid air.

Think all action sports Olympians value an Olympic medal more than their health. If you asked a curler or a golfer they might have a different outlook.

 

[Heimdallr]

Elite sportspeople would all probably choose olympic medal over health

Diff breed aint they

A lot would sacrifice everything to be the best for a period of time.

The problem is that it can't be maintained forever and a void is left after - how do you fill that emptiness, often depression does and then a disappointment feeling of never reaching the same level of success or happiness ever again. Relationships and other important life achievements suffer.

Sometimes it's safer to sacrifice sporting excellence for drinking and shagging birds in your teens and twenties, that's what I did and look, no depression or feeling of emptiness. Just tiredness and poverty.