Her arm clipped the inside, spun her sideways and her skis landed across the slope and tipped her. Aside from the shock up through the legs of the ski landing, the twisting won’t have helped.
I need more coffee. Can you clarify the point about “the twisting won’t have helped.”?
Don’t tell me you’re against slo mo women’s beach volleyball replays too?
Slo mo is no one’s friend. Baywatch was all a lie…
Her legs landed and planted and her torso was still rotating from hitting the gate, so I imagine there were some twisting forces on her knees as her body attempted to keep going round when her feet hit the deck
Fracture and surgery.
There are only a couple dozen 400m tracks in the world. A lot in the Netherlands, seems like every big town has one.
There are only 4 in the US and only 2 are indoors and open year round: Milwaukee and near Park City.
Calgary still has their track from 88 too. Lake Placid has their 32 Olympic track, but it’s outdoors.
There are more than 20 Dutch 400m tracks.
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Was up to see live, rewatched the race last night.
That early drop coming out of turn gave a lot of the ladies fits. Cutting it tight and clipping the panel was the key. Sad but true to form. She didn’t crash because her missing ACL. She crashed cause she’s Lindsey Vonn, full send.
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It was a troublesome turn for sure. But its a turn that requires a lot of contribution from the Left leg and I think it’s completely logical and fair to suggest that based on the video and position of her L leg there’s a great chance that she may not have had the ability to handle it the way it needed and that forced her to over correct and lean VERY far right.
I took some snapshots from the video to look better and it seems like she is offloading that Left leg quite a bit with some other biomechanics questions in mind.
So no the knee didn’t collapse or buckle but if she wasn’t able to load it correctly then that could have easily contributed to poor approach to the landing and subsequent turn and jump.
Unless we can read her mind (because I don’t think she’d ever admit it) we are left to guessing but seeing as this is my wheelhouse I’m going to analyze what I can see in the video and make an educated guess.
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Excellent breakdown.
US mixed double curling guaranteed silver at a minimum.
She’s posted now post surgery.
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Gold medal performance! Don’t forget to turn up the sound.
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The gold winning ski jumper has a fear of heights 
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That is nuts. It is hard to grasp how steep and terrifying the ski events are because the athletes make it look so easy. I stood at the top of a ski jump run once, and the pucker factor was at 11.
There is a video out there of normal skiers attempting the kitzbuhel run. The start is so fucking steep and slick I think pretty much everyone crashed out within the first 10-20 feet.
Also, not the Olympics, but downhill ski related and this video always makes me smile. Based on the behavior, I think this might have been @sphere’s dog.
I haven’t seen him in two days, chances are low but not zero.
For decades the Red Army men’s hockey dominated the Olympics. The U.S have won gold 17 out of the last 21 years in men’s basketball and when they didn’t win, they didn’t participate.
Would you suggest that basketball be eliminated because one team always wins?
USA ends up with silver in the mixed doubles curling, Sweden takes gold winning 6-5.
I would also like to try xc skiing.
Ben Ogden took silver in the cross-country sprint classic, ending a 50-year Olympic medal drought for the U.S. men’s cross-country team. Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo won gold and Oskar Opstad Vike earned bronze.
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It’s a wonderful sport, provided you have access to some snowy terrain. Even a beginner can enjoy gliding along in a peaceful forest. Way more fun than snowshoeing.
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