Or worse you could have been married to Claudine Longet....
Posted on 03/21/2020 3:10:37 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
I remember that one.
There’s a practice ski jump ramp at one of the local hills here. It’s scary just to stand at the bottom of it and look up. I can’t imagine how bone-chilling the view must be from the top looking down.
I remember that. In fact, I've felt that whenever they have the Tokyo Games he should be the one who lights the flame.
Or worse you could have been married to Claudine Longet....
That, and cliff diving.
-PJ
One thing which sticks in my mind is that little Lipinski girl being tough as nails and coming from behind to win.
She looked so frail but had iron in her soul.
The Buffalo Bills went to the Super Bowl 4 years in a row. That means they were better than every team in the NFL except their opponent in the Super Bowl. They lost the Superbowl those four years and were considered the dogs, the worst in the NFL. And yet they were better than everyone else in the league except the team they lost to. Perception.
Jim Kelly was one of the best quarterbacks to ever play in the NFL. But because the Bills didn’t win the Super Bowl he has received very little accolades.
Pop culture, it’s all about perception and very little about reality.
Back in the day they used to win by the distance jumped. In 2020 it is like ice skating with style points.
I remember CBS used to use it for cutaways in their NFL broadcasts, too!
Those were the days when Winter Olympics were “The Bomb” with a lot of colorful competitors...
Yes!
And a quart of nitroglycerine strapped to her back.
Yeah, but I hear he sprayed his skis with Clark Griswald’s non-caloric silicon-based lubricant. The other jumpers were warned that day not to try this at home “or anywhere else”. The “fool” in your video was in the bathroom when Griswald spoke.
I noticed in the 1974 intro to Wide World of Sports how things have changed. The video shows Pele scoring a goal for his team and immediately turning to find one of his teammates and then jumps into his arms to celebrate. Today’s athletes are so different. After they score, they turn away/run away from their teammates and look for some place on the field where they can stand alone, thump their chests and exult in their own individual “greatness,” all thought of TEAM having vanished...
...or maybe they are just ahead of the curve and showing the world how to practice social distancing...
Without a doubt. Watching the event on TV, people don't get a real perspective on how steep those runs actually are.
I was out in Banff a year after the Husky World Cup downhill championships held at Sun Shine Village. I skied the slope that was used for the downhill and it was OMG!
The first time I braved that it looked like a pure free fall when I got off the lift. It took a lot of convincing to keep me from getting right back on that lift and going back down, lol. Forgiving deep powder makes all the difference.
Swiss legend Pirmin Zurbriggen ran the race of his life to win the downhill gold medal in 1988. The event was delayed by one day because of 98-mph wind gusts at the summit of the downhill run.
The biggest regret of that trip I have is that I never left the village to go sight seeing around Banff or Lake Louise...
I did make the mistake of making a last run of the day to the bottom only to find that the gondola was shut down for the day. There was an old couple there too who had just gotten back from town so the ski patrol gave us rides back up the mountain on snow mobiles.....LOL!
“My all-time Olympic moment is still Franz Klammer in the 1976 Winter Olympics downhill.”
Yep, best downhill run ever, before they marked the course with blue paint like they do now.
#7 Try using a car : )
Mini Ski Jump (Part 2) Top Gear Winter Olympics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utFbjheDC-Y
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