[TexasCajun]

Video at the Link:

[Trailerpark Badass]

uh, that was weird.

[Berlin_Freeper]

She was making good time.

[dfwgator]

Been there, done that.

Of course, in my case, it wasn’t at the Olympics.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I feel bad for her, but it truly is an epic fail.

[al baby]

Well she can’t blame it on her deodorant

[Lando Lincoln]

It’s sad, actually.

[savedbygrace]

I blame Global Warming.

[dfwgator]

Looked like something from the Claudine Longet Invitational Ski Tournament.

(Old SNL fans will remember that one)

[TChris]

How sad.

I can't imagine how devastating it must be to spend a significant portion of your life dedicated to training for an event that turns out badly in the end (or beginning...)

Must be really tough.

[Yossarian]

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

-Theodore H. Roosevelt, Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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[El Sordo]

Harsh.

[Dixie Yooper]

When I was in my very first high school ski race I jumped out of the starting gate 5 seconds early. I stopped right away and asked for a do-over...and they let me!
For the Olympics, I sure her nerves were all over the place.

[mowowie]

This happened to me on the way to my mailbox the other day.

[Yossarian]

What these morons (the writer, not the athlete) fail to notice is this:

Lindsey Vonn did well on the course by driving hard at the top of the course. So Marion Rolland, knowing what she had to beat, probably wanted to do the same. Or she just attacks the top of the course as part of her normal racing routine.

And you only get ONE chance to launch yourself, so if you want to go hard at the top, you launch yourself HARD out of the gate. And you know what? A hard kick-start plus oddball snow can lead to problems as Ms. Rolland experienced.

Marion Rolland had an embarrassing afternoon, but it is only an "Epic Fail" in the eyes of the ignorant.

-Yossarian, alpine ski racer

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Equivalent to earning your PGA Tour card and then shiffing on the #1 tee in your first tourny.

[Doomonyou]

The Agony of Defeat...

[OB1kNOb]

The agony of defeat.

[Ingtar]

LOL - I get a network virus warning from that site.

[Charles Martel]

Well, shoot. I thought I was going to see a five-second-long crash!