My Ode to Bode..Apologies to Thinnmann

[thinnmann]

A lot to say here, stay with me...

Hey - I have been away from AZ because I was actually at a J4 ski race with my kid yesterday, and who would have known that my online handle would ever appear in a post thread along with The Supreme One, Bode?! How cool is that?!

Like Bode's coach yells for all the cameras to hear at the start, "GO BODEEE MILLER!!!"

Do you think he yells that so the stupid non-skier commentators covering the Oly's all over the place stop calling him "Bode" without the eeeee at the end? (as in, for example, "It bodes well for you...")

Anyway, since I was at 400' vertical Holiday Mountain yesterday, I volunteered to be a gatekeeper, and had several DNF's on the SL course. That is how SL goes - you go fast and aggressively if you want to place. You can ski safe and give ample room at every gate, but you are not going to be top 10. If you want to place you have to risk catching tips, straddling, or missing gates because the ruts or the ice were a little more than you expected. That risk factor is amplified when trying to make up deficits from the DH portion of the combi.

Finally, since I was at Holiday Mtn, as I said, I did not watch a live feed online nor look up the results of the Men's Combined event. I tried to watch it fresh on NBC last night. And you know what? It was exciting to watch Bode win, but my daughter thought I was crazy because I was yelling at the TV as I sat there, cursing the annoyingly stupid scripted commentary, the talking as if it was happening live right then, the absence of 90% of the competitors, and the 2/5 skier to commercial ratio. "Dad, he can't hear you!"

View down the SL course at Holiday Mountain, NY

Bald eagle pair at Holiday Mountain

 

[billski]

I watched it live on the Euro feed, and frankly I enjoyed the French commentators. I could only understand a small fraction of what they said, but they were vastly more knowledgeable about the sport and didn't need script writers like NBC talking heads do.

 

[wa-loaf]

I watched it live on the Euro feed, and frankly I enjoyed the French commentators. I could only understand a small fraction of what they said, but they were vastly more knowledgeable about the sport and didn't need script writers like NBC talking heads do.

French? It didn't sound French to me, more like Italian. Maybe I got a different feed?

I'm going miss all the GS action tomorrow.

 

[billski]

French? It didn't sound French to me, more like Italian. Maybe I got a different feed?

I'm going miss all the GS action tomorrow.

I was messing around with the dash numbers at the end of the url. there were a number of different events being covered. I might have dialed differently than you....

 

[from_the_NEK]

This



They are going all out trying to win medals. Bode crashes out of more Slaloms than he completes, but when he actually finishes he usually kicks everyone's ass. He's all out all the time. Win or blow-up.

Something Bode said right after the SL race about his legs being spent made me think that his being a bit behind the curve for being in shape actually saved him in this race. You could totally tell he was out of gas for the last 1/4 of the course. The super aggressive upper 3/4 got him a sizable lead. The fact that he was gassed entering the final portion of the course made him have to back off the super aggressive line preventing a costly mistake and saving the gold.

 

[thinnmann]

I'm looking for a live feed for the GS today. Anybody have a URL?

 

[wa-loaf]

I'm looking for a live feed for the GS today. Anybody have a URL?

The old ones don't work? Try changing the numbers at the end until you find one that works.

 

[thinnmann]

no luck today so far...