So here's what happened to Lindsey Jacobellis.
On the first jump of the semi-finals, she was too close to Canadian and eventual Gold winner Maelle Ricker, so Lindsey had to land on her side. This caused Lindsey to spin-out just a bit, go off course, and then recover herself.
The one problem was that the damn gate was right where she temporarily lost control. Lindsey had already regained from her sketchy landing and it is easily believably that she could recover and make it into the finals. But she hit the afore-mentioned damn gate, which is against the rules, and was disqualified.
And that was all it took.
PS,
The lack of parity in Women's Hockey is a little embarrassing.
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Women's hockey is unbeleivable, with it being Canada, the U.S., then eveyone else. No one else can stay on the ice with those two, and to think they are countries a lot worse than the ones Canada and the U.S. are treating like light scrimmages (the country that Canada beat in the first round 18-0 beat Buglgaria 82-0 (!) in qualifying.). How can this still be an Olympic sport with only two dominant teams and then a bunch of lightweights that a local high school team in St Louis would pummel? Didn't they get rid of softball for that very reason? I'm confused. (Bleeping) IOC
ReplyDeleteAccording to a story I read, Women's Hockey is safe for staying in the Olympics because of how much money it still brings in, despite how few teams stand a chance against the main two (and how bad those other teams are!). Those numbers, of course, are different this time through because Canadians are obsessed with hockey, but this is apparently still true enough throughout the world that hockey isn't going anywhere, despite how awful these games are. I guess butch chicks hitting a ball just isn't as big worldwide as Canadians and Americans embarrassing every other country in the world.
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