Lindsey's Method

I do not like how the mainstream press is handling Lindsey Jacobellis' bail in the Snowboardercross finals. She rules. She ended up with a silver medal dispite slamming on the final jump. Eight years ago all snowboarders were stoners, four years ago we were all slackers. Now we are all show offs. Nobody knows her error more than she does, but why do all the mainstream press folks need to keep pressing her misfortune rather than her success.

Here is a quote from Todd Richards off www.nbcolympics.com:

"What happens in someone's head when they are leading down the home stretch in the Olympics, few of us will ever know. Most competitive snowboarders dream of the big victory, Lindsey Jacobellis seems to be no different.

"Why Lindsey did the method air is the subject of so much speculation already. Some say she was showboating, some say she was caught up in the moment. I say that if I were in the lead and I had the chance to do one of the most stylish moves in snowboarding and blaze through the finish line to a gold medal, I would have probably done the same thing.

"Snowboarding is all about style, and many have said the best looking trick in snowboarding is the method air. It's one of the most photogenic of all the tricks, and a gauge of an individual's personal style. We saw Ross Powers do the same trick in the halfpipe in Salt Lake, and it grabbed him the gold. Lindsey did one in Torino, and it cost her gold.

"She will have to live with the aftermath of that trick for the rest of her life. That is hard enough to bear without the rest of the world calling her out."

Bottom line, for me. I love snowboarding, in part, because it still has a rawness to it. Lindsey is human, and a snowboarder, so she still has my respect.