Lindsey Vonn SI cover controversy

russ_watters

The obvious case-in-point is the 1980 US hockey team which was a bunch of college kids against a Russian pro all star team, akin to a college all star basketball team beating a Dream Team.

turbo

WELL into the 80s. My young friend was training for the Seoul Olympics (1988) in the hope that white-water kayaking would at least be a demonstration event. One of the women coaching her gave me a short but pointed lecture about not doing anything in compensation for my lessons that might damage my friend's amateur status. They were quite serious about avoiding even the appearance of being pro or semi-pro in their chosen sport.

fourier jr

i don't think she looks any better than any other skier. just check out this pic:


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...y-vonn_12.html

even with all the airbrushing sports illustrated probably does she still needs to get a face. you might say she's a "handsome" woman. there are dozens of olympic athletes who look at least better & they don't sell out to sports illustrated

russ_watters

I think her face looks better in the cover photo.

turbo

Vonn won gold in the downhill. Not just another pretty face!

Borek

Exactly - sex or no, she is fast

Have you seen Anja Paerson falling?

turbo

Not yet. NBC embargoes coverage until prime-time, so I'll have to watch tonight if I get a chance. I read that she went down HARD after almost 60 meters airborne - I hope she's not seriously injured.

Borek

Eurosport transmitted live. I think problem was not when she landed after the fly (even if it wasn't controlled landing she still managed to land on the skis and heading in the right direction, she was just too far behind to keep balance), but she rolled after. Hard to say about injuries, after a minute or two she walked to the track side, but then she sit down or even laid back on the snow, I have not seen what have happened later.

turbo

I hope that she's not injured, and that she'll get to compete in other events she has qualified for. It would be sad to see a promising athlete knocked out of a competition that only comes around once in four years.

Borek

Tell that to Petra Majdic - she won bronze today, but she was carried away after finishing; she was injured earlier today during training after falling into hole or ditch that was close to the track. You don't want to know what Polish comentators had to tell about Canucks.

This is OT, perhaps we should start an olimpic thread?

turbo

There already is one.

mgb_phys

And she wins the Gold http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic..._281828Mt.html