I don't believe anyone goes to the Olympics and doesn't try their best. I've watched the kinds of mistakes Bode's made -- the first race he was too confident, just didn't get the tuck and aggressiveness that he should have. There, yeah, he didn't try hard enough.
But after that he started pushing it, hard, cutting gates close. He had the one standard Bode Miller wipe-out -- he would have to re-learn how to ski to not have those, because the way he skis is not Skiing Association approved. He wins with that style, he's skied like that his whole life, but he's barely holding onto the slopes with his fingernails. That makes him erratic more than anything else.
Then in his third race he cut a gate too hard, too close, and was disqualified. That's not someone who isn't trying.
*shakes head* After that his mental game was gone. He was rattled, he was avoiding the press, you could see he was no longer racing the clock and the other skiiers -- he was racing those mistakes.
I don't think he didn't try. He was exactly the same in 2002 and blew the snow off the slopes.
What we just saw was a man crumble under the pressure and the hype.
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But after that he started pushing it, hard, cutting gates close. He had the one standard Bode Miller wipe-out -- he would have to re-learn how to ski to not have those, because the way he skis is not Skiing Association approved. He wins with that style, he's skied like that his whole life, but he's barely holding onto the slopes with his fingernails. That makes him erratic more than anything else.
Then in his third race he cut a gate too hard, too close, and was disqualified. That's not someone who isn't trying.
*shakes head* After that his mental game was gone. He was rattled, he was avoiding the press, you could see he was no longer racing the clock and the other skiiers -- he was racing those mistakes.
I don't think he didn't try. He was exactly the same in 2002 and blew the snow off the slopes.
What we just saw was a man crumble under the pressure and the hype.
Icarus