{"id":7292,"date":"2019-02-11T14:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T18:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2024-08-30T08:55:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:55:32","slug":"on-the-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2019\/02\/11\/on-the-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"

This time of year I enjoy rolling through the sports channels and stopping at NBCSN or one of the Fox channels to watch some winter sport for 15–20 minutes. If I find downhill skiing, I\u2019ll watch for an hour. It\u2019s such a badass sport and I\u2019m thrilled I get a chance to see it more than just during the Olympics.<\/p>\n

Saturday I caught the men\u2019s World Cup race. Sunday I caught the women\u2019s, which just happened to by Lindsey Vonn\u2019s last race before she retires.<\/p>\n

I read the piece linked below this morning and loved how it summed up and put into perspective both Vonn\u2019s career and the sport itself. It\u2019s seriously crazy how fast these athletes go, how literally on the edge they are, and the ridiculous angle of some of these mountains. At yesterday\u2019s race there was actually a great camera angle that showed the 65-degree decent out of the starter\u2019s gate. That looked stupid. As this article points out, there is a race that begins with an 85-percent grade. For those of you who have forgotten your middle school geometry, that\u2019s basically skiing straight down the side of a building.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you\u2019ve enjoyed Vonn\u2019s career, or even just like to watch Olympic skiing every four years, I think this is a good read. The comparison of her 2010 Olympic downhill run to silver medalist Julia Mancuso\u2019s is great. Mancuso skied a technically perfect race, but went home with silver because Vonn was\/is insane.<\/p>\n

Lindsey Vonn Went Big And Now She’s Going Home A Legend<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This time of year I enjoy rolling through the sports channels and stopping at NBCSN or one of the Fox channels to watch some winter sport for 15–20 minutes. If I find downhill skiing, I\u2019ll watch for an hour. It\u2019s such a badass sport and I\u2019m thrilled I get a chance to see it more than just during the Olympics. Saturday I caught the men\u2019s World Cup race. Sunday I caught the women\u2019s, which just happened to by Lindsey Vonn\u2019s last race before she retires. I read the piece linked below this morning and loved how it summed up and put into perspective both Vonn\u2019s career and the sport itself. It\u2019s seriously crazy how fast these athletes go, how literally on the edge they are, and the ridiculous angle of some of these mountains. At yesterday\u2019s race there was actually a great camera angle that showed the 65-degree decent out of the starter\u2019s gate. That looked stupid. As this article points out, there is a race that begins with an 85-percent grade. For those of you who have forgotten your middle school geometry, that\u2019s basically skiing straight down the side of a building. Anyway, if you\u2019ve enjoyed Vonn\u2019s career, or even just like to watch Olympic skiing every four years, I think this is a good read. The comparison of her 2010 Olympic downhill run to silver medalist Julia Mancuso\u2019s is great. Mancuso skied a technically perfect race, but went home with silver because Vonn was\/is insane. Lindsey Vonn Went Big And Now She’s Going Home A Legend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,24],"class_list":["post-7292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13264,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions\/13264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}