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Chuck wrote:
> Doing things your own way is one thing. Staying out drinking until
> midnight the night before you race and sleeping through pre-race
> inspections is another.
How on earth did having a couple of beers the evening before and
skipping inspection turn into "[s]taying out drinking until midnight the
night before you race and sleeping through pre-race inspections"? Did
you go out partying with him? Were you in his trailer watching him sleep?
> I thought I read that he didn't even make it to
> the hill until minutes before he had to race.
What you thought you read is one thing; what you actually read is
clearly another.
> IMHO if he wants to win
> any Olympic gold he needs to get his priorities straight.
IYHO. Fortunately for Bode, he's not given to letting armchair
quarterbacks call the shots for him.
> If skiing is
> #1 he will win. Nobody's better. If partying is #1 he'll have a good
> time drinking and go home a loser. Having said that I do wish him well.
Wow, what a backhanded compliment that was. You don't sound like you
wish him well; you sound like you hope he'll tank every race so you can
gloat and say you were right.
> He still has a few other races but honestly DH was his best shot.
Well, no, it wasn't. He has two career WC downhill wins -- both last
season -- and he won the Worlds in downhill last season. Compare that
to five career wins in slalom; nine career WC wins and a world
championship in GS; two career WC wins and a world championship in SG;
and two career WC wins and a world championship in combined. IOW, he's
done as well or better in every other discipline.
Oh, and by the way -- alt.no.fun.havin.bode.haters is down the hall and
to the left.
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