Crap! Lindsey is injured now and may not be able to compete.

What? Look at any pictures of her she rides for head, and no offense to the full tilt lovers on this site (aka everyone) but full tilts are not made for racing, unless you race in seth's boot. BTW I ride full tilts
 
pretty sure it would show up the in the drug test. pain killers are fore sure on the banned substance list.
 
x2, anyone who trains and competes at such a high level isn't going to let a bruise ruin their dreams.

Get some cortisone shots or something in there and she won't feel a thing.
 
This! Raichle's were a premiere race boot. Lot's of guys on the US team skied on them.

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Yeah sure they were, in the 80's, and of course what was solid race boot technology in the 80's would be a great idea for racers in 2010 to use.... think about it. Maybe they should show up with Fisher RC4s too.
 
Mt buddies dad who was a ski tech for the U.S. Ski team for years was telling us how all these racers would get boots from atomic, rossi, or whoever they were sponsored by and they take them and stuff them in there closet and go out and buy a pair of flexons. so dont say full tilts aren't race boots. Thats how they started.
 
The point is, just because they were good race boots 30 years ago, doesn't mean they would be good race boots now.
I used to race in Flexons, and at the time, they were the shit, but there's a reason no world class racers use them now, and that's because race boot technology has evolved.
 
Well shit I mistyped, I meant to say used(not made) for racing. Perhaps you see them used in the 80s aka 30 years ago but by todays standard I doubt many RACERS will be using a tounged boot...If someone can prove me wrong I will succeed
 
She can take painkillers, but cannot get any numbing injections into the injury site, under anti-doping regulations.
 
I'm missing your point. Full Tilt chooses not to make a racing boot. That doesn't mean that they couldn't or that some of their boots wouldn't actually work for racing now. The main thing that has changed with boots over the last 20 years is that they have a softer flex than they used to. The shape of the ski does a lot of what the skier used to have to use leverage to accomplish. Showing up on a pair of old straight racing skis would obviously be a disadvantage, but showing up wearing Full Tilts might not be as long as they had the same lateral stiffness that they used to, and fit the racer right. Don't believe me? Ask a race coach.
 
Dude, find even one example of a racer getting a WC podium result on Flexons or Full Tilts in the last 10 years... .then maybe you will actually have a point.
 
Wait, i'm confused, is everyone super concerned because she is super hot or what? I personally will not see a second of ski racing in the olympics...
 
Hahahaha yes. Going in my sig.
Seriously though, an olympic athlete isn't going to allow a little shin bang to get in the way. If she's really the best then this shouldn't stop her.
 
Aside from the fact that it is far beyond a "little shin bang". She may very well have a fractured shin.
 
Oh. Didn't read the article, guess it's my fault then that it made me look retarded. Fractured shin would be terrible. I couldn't imagine training for 4 years for these 2 weeks, then have something like that come up
 
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