Shut the Vonn Up!
I tell you what. I am sick and tired of Lindsey Vonn. Yeah, it’s cool she won the gold medal in the downhill. Excellent. And props to Julia Mancuso on the silver.
But really, her nearly hysterical recitation of how she’s overcome her injury, how difficult her “plight” has been, how she’s blasted through her “difficulties” is just so much garbage. Listen up, Lindsey. Athletes play with injuries all the time. Did you by chance see Dwight Freeney of the Indianapolis Colts play in the Super Bowl? One of his ankle ligaments was gone. Gone. And yet he was out there chasing Drew Brees around. He said the injury was a pain, but he played through it.
Athletes do this all the time and, sure, it might affect the way they play, but they don’t act like they cured cancer when they take the field. And yet you, well, you act like you’re the first one to be hurt.
Wo-Man up! And what’s with your freaking husband always commenting for you? We know you can talk because of your incessant whining about your leg. Is there a single other Olympian whose spouse is working the media as diligently as yours? Frankly, it’s sorta creepy.
So, look, I’m psyched you won gold, and last night was an amazing night for the USA, with Shani Davis, Chad Hedrick, Julia Mancuso and Shaun White taking the medal stand. But take some advice from Shaun White. When the frothing TV media suggested the half pipe was too high and someone was gonna get hurt, White told them to pipe down. Look, he said, snowboarders crash all the time. Then they get back up and ride again. There’s no whining in the Olympics, so zip it, OK?
Finally, if you think you have “difficulties,” why don’t you head down to Haiti for a couple of weeks and meet someone with real problems.
Michael Moore
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