As someone who doesn’t pay attention to winter sports and only hears (or sometimes watches) about it is when the Winter Olympics are on, I’ve never heard of any of those people.

I’ve heard of Lindsey Vonn though.

Whaaa?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bode_Miller

33 career wins! One of the only skiers to have wins in SL/GS/SG/DH and Combined! By no measure did he not win much.

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And yet every time I watch her, she’s a giant turd. Suspicious.

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Keep digging brohammer. Makes your case ultra strong

Scott should have fired himself as well.

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Which is a 100% justifiable take. For me the reason I clarify it that way is that racing is a discipline of skiing, but being a good racer doesn’t necessarily translate to being a good all around skier. It’s tough because while there are some big mountain events, being the best skier is subjective. In order to be considered in that conversation though you have to prove yourself across several disciplines imo.

For example I know and have skied with some incredible park skiers capable of doing triple corks, that couldn’t ski trees if their life depended on it. Or racers that are comfortable at 70 mph, but couldn’t go off a jump bigger than 10’ without being destroyed. To me skiing is about being able to start at the peak, pick a line, and navigate it all with style. Whether that’s cliffs, groomers, jumps, powder, crud, bumps, trees, and everything in between. That’s where Candide comes in because there’s really no one out there capable of going as big, as fast, and with as much style, on the most diverse terrain possible as he can. He’s the guy that every pro skier in every discipline will stop and say “how the hell did he just do that?”.

And she's still so young! She still has another 5 or 6 years of peak career in her, it's absolutely insane.

Honest question…and no, I have not tried crack sir.

Thank you for the explanation.

Good luck to Danny for cleaning up the mess he left.

About 5% of the NHL is Russian. If you want to ban Olympic athletes, you need to ban all athletes from international competitions

Yeah I grew up loving that Sonics team and Kemp was the epitome of basketball coolness.

Seriously, how cool would this be?

You have the right to defend yourself with "reasonable force" if you're attacked, so long as you have a legal right to be where you are. If you're shot at while trespassing and shoot back, the law won't protect you, but if you're driving your car on a public street? You completely have a right to fire back. Now, let's be clear, that's not an ideal circumstance, and may not even be tactically sound, he might have been better off just stomping on the gas and roaring down the street.

Reasonable force is going to depend on what the prosecutor, judge, and jury decide. This is why you're entitled to a trial by a jury of your peers. Now I'll disclaim here: Not a lawyer, don't know the law in Washington State, but shooting back is not inherently illegal.

Guess need to narrow to Alpine Skier/Racer

I think press jumped to conclusions too quickly. If there's a shootout, the cops arrest everyone, that's their job. It's the prosecutors who are going to decide who to charge.

And beating him with his own character is fucking legendary

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Holy shit, that is one of the coolest stories I've ever heard in my LIFE. Maximum respect for the Reign Man. I will never doubt him again.

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It may be only what a tiny minority thinks, but somehow they are powerful enough to provoke huge impacts. How the judge can believe that an assumed tendency toward depression and suicidality cancels out established physical differences in size and strength, I don’t know.

As a Kemp fan when I was younger, this story made my day