Darwin Awards, Garmisch edition
Guenther Hujara is as serious about ski racing as anyone can be,
but the FIS men’s director also has a sense of humor. In informing
attendees of the team captain’s meeting about proper protocol for
exiting the men’s World Champs speed course, he said it was critical people bail before the free fall. “If you’ve been down that, you
know why,” he said. “It would be natural selection.”
OK, so who takes
out the trash?
When your name is Lindsey Vonn, you have a place in Europe especially
for doing laundry. At the Alpine World Champs arrival press conference in
Garmisch, Vonn filled in the media on her off-snow duties. “Thomas would
never do laundry, ever; that’s my job,” Vonn said of her time spent at the
U.S. team’s European base in Zell am See-Kaprun. “I’m training, I’m doing
laundry, I’m working out, I’m doing laundry. It’s a process.”
Now that’s what we
call slope style
At the Deer Valley World Championship, you could not
only dine on gourmet food, but also wash it down with
one of 106 beverages served from one of the new-age
Coke Freestyle machines. Nearly every athlete who
passed the modern-day soda fountain on the way to
medal press conferences seemed compelled to try it.
With choices ranging from Pibb Zero and Vault Red
Blitz to Barq’s root beer and Orange Coke, it’s a wonder
everybody wasn’t frozen in place.
