Morrison blaming Own the Podium:
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/speed-skat...tml?cid=rsstsn
Morrison, who finished a dismal ninth in the 1,500-metre race, said his technique has fallen off since the days he trained with Davis in Calgary before the 2006 Turin Games.
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Davis trains by himself and came to Calgary in advance of Turin to work out at the oval there, striking up a close relationship with Morrison. The two competed fiercely, and Morrison began to rise quickly up the international rankings as he raced against the faster American.
However, Morrison's coach, Marcel Lacroix, disagreed with his skater. "For me as a coach, that is not an excuse," said Lacroix, who also coaches Canadian Christine Nesbitt, who won gold in the women's 1,000 metres this week.
"The program was giving him what he needed for the last three years. He got a world record with his technique in the program. So now what? So it was working and now it's not working, so it's the program? I can't support this at all."
Bunch of garbage excuses Morrison. Good for the coach for calling it what it is...ridiculous. The program gave him more money and more training time and everything since 2006...and it got him the world record. But when he fails, he reverts to using the excuse that the Own the Podium and thus not being able to train with Davis in the past 4 years is the reason to blame he finished 9th and 15th in the biggest races.
Choker...and a whiner, obviously.