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Old 02-18-2010, 02:42 PM   #19
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I don't think she lost her balance. One replay showed that she actually stuck her pole too close to her ski and it blocked her stride as she was leaning to the right. Pretty brutal for that to happen in the Olympics. I bet she's never even done that before.
sounds like she lost her balance!
you can lose it by leaning too far into a turn without enough pressure on the snow or a numerous amount of ways. i've been the victim of losing my grip on my pole out of the start occasionally which just messes up your run right off the start. i have seen people fall right out of the start with no pushing. the differnce being is this is the olympics and probably the only time 90% of the viewing audience will ever see ski racing.
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