Posted on 02/13/2022 8:44:12 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Team USA’s Erin Jackson is a medal contender in the 500 meters. Her teammates from the ‘New Jax City Rollers’ will be watching.
Don’t take my word for it. Listen to a couple of Jackson’s former teammates:
Shady Godiva and Fancy Schmancy.
“She’s just tough,” Shady Godiva says.
“Super strong,” says Fancy Schmancy.
Shady and Fancy know. Before Jackson made her case as the fastest woman on ice, before she became one of Team USA’s best hopes for gold, she was a star in the rollicking world of roller derby, trading collisions and bruises with teammates who maintained aliases like Meow Mix, Atomic Mel-Down, Jamsterella and Noam Bombsky.
Jackson spent a few seasons last decade playing with New Jax City Rollers, a selective outfit in Jacksonville, Fla. She joined the club after a brief run with her hometown team–the Ocala Cannibals.
Jackson was a “jammer,” a key position in which she and the opposing team’s “jammer” simultaneously try to skate through a tangle of players called “blockers,” and score points by lapping opponents around the track.
The University of Florida engineering grad was a world-class in-line skater–that’s the land-borne stuff, not on ice–who managed to qualify for the 2018 U.S. Olympic long track speedskating team in Pyeongchang, despite limited training on ice.
For Shady Godiva and Fancy Schmancy, it’s been mildly mind-blowing, seeing their former roller derby pal front and center in the build-up to Beijing.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
https://archive.vn/qOSqF
Now we know which “celebrity” will be shoved in our faces non-stop for the next 4 years in commercials and tv shows and everything else.
Kansas City Bomber
is a 1972 American sports drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Raquel Welch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Bomber
She’s already in some promo or commercial played over and over for the Olympiucs where she says something like “I’m in a place where I don’t look like everyone else” - it’d dripping with victimization and white-shaming.
“Shady Godiva and Fancy Schmancy”
Sounds like your typical girls next door.
Sick stuff.
Imaginative names. The tranny-bois not likely to try out for these teams. They would get their butts kicked.
She won the gold medal in the 500 meters.
—”Sounds like your typical girls next door.”
And that is why so many move to the big city ... looking for friends like “Shady Godiva and Fancy Schmancy”
—”She won the gold medal in the 500 meters.”
YES!
I wanted to append that to the title... but forgot.
Would you please tell us how you access the archived articles? I've tried and can't pull up results.
That was an entertaining movie, but I don’t think it did very well. Jodie Foster played Raquel’s daughter.
—”Would you please tell us how you access the archived articles?”
Easy Peasy!
Mouse over the link while holding the LEFT button, release the mouse button, this should highlight the link.
Move the mouse cursor over the highlighted area.
When over the highlight, click the LEFT mouse button.
A box should open.
Click on: GO to https://archive.vn/qOSqF
Hopefully, that should do the trick.
Or you can add the missing three double U s
NICE!
Thank you. Must try it later.
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