Louge is damn cool. I remember seeing it it back as a kid in the ‘70s for the first time, ‘76 I guess, and then hurtling down every steep hill I could find lying on my skateboard in a similar position steering with my arse just behind the front truck. Got pretty good at it as I recall!
Ugh. Elise Christie stretchered off after another nasty speed-skating crash. This Olympics really isn’t working for this girl. Annoying as she was just so far ahead in the preceding heat.
PS Watching her first crash a couple of days ago it occured to me just how crazy dangerous this sport is. She was in tears through losing at that point, but looking at the replay then she was actually within an inch or two of having her fingers cut off by a competitor’s skate. Really scary stuff. This crash it looked to me like a skate hit her ankle or calf on the way down.
I know the girl and only hope she has the physical and mental resources to comeback for the 1000m. She has strengths I never saw in her that's for sure, but there is a fragility that has always been apparent as well.
She seems remarkably honest emotionally to the point her disappointment and dispair at the first crash was painful to watch. No one should be that upset...
Was great to see Lizzy Yarnold win a gold in the skeleton.
Jack