Approximately 13 seconds into the race, with her entire body airborne after coming off a turn into a jump, Vonn clipped a gate. With no way to stabilize herself, her body twisted and she hit the ground in a cloud of snow. Vonn tumbled down the slope, coming to rest in a tangle of skis and limbs. “Oh my goodness! No!” cried the NBC announcers, speaking for everyone watching, at home and on site.
In the end, it seemed, there would be no poetic, storybook ending to Vonn’s comeback story: just a medevac helicopter carrying the skier’s prone body into the sky.
Lindsey Vonn is out of the Olympics after a gruesome injury
Y’know, you hate to see it happen but she was kinda tempting fate after her crash the other week damaged her knee.
How to break a leg in 13 seconds…hopefully she’ll be able to walk and pain free after this.
Reminds me of the agony of defeat clip they would play during that one sports show.
“ABC’s Wide World of Sports” led with that couplet: “The thrill of victory… and the agony of defeat…”
I have no data on this, but my sense is that eveeryone knows the phrase, but only the old timers remember the actual video.
I think that’s right, but once you see it, it’s hard to forget.
“We’ve got the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and because we’ve got soccer highlights, the futility of a nothing-nothing tie.”
Yes, exactly! I was trying to remember why that was familiar, but could not. Good eye!
Pretty gruesome way to get attention.
Yes, after having major knew surgery two months ago I found this particularly triggering and there was no place to escape the the replay on the media