Thursday, February 25, 2010

Vancouver and the women GS fiasco

It's now obvious that yesterday's race should have been postponed in the first place in view of the terrible visibility and that a bunch of bad decisions robbed Mancuso of her chances to fairly defend her title. A gutsy and fair jury would have scrapped and re-ran the entire event instead of allowing just the second run to be held today, but it was pretty much the USA against the rest of the world and I don't think USSA fought as much as they should have on behalf of Julia Mancuso.
This, after all is an Olympic event and Park City Race Department does a much better job in running a J3 race! The whole race jury, including Peter Krogoll technical delegate, Atle Skaardal referee, Bruce Holliday chief of course, Herbert Klammer start referee and Jan Palovicova finish referee are all obviously incompetent and should be stripped of their functions. Just a note to the CIO bigwigs, next time you award a Winter Olympic, do a much better homework. It's now become obvious to the entire world that Vancouver and Whistler where not up to the task!

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