(올림픽) 극단의 위험을 무릅쓰고
극단의 위험을 무릅쓰고
It takes about two minutes of watching to understand that winter Olympians are not like the rest of us. Well, beyond their strength and endurance인내력, they separate themselves through a stunning freakish별난 level of comfort with high speeds, great heights and intense danger. What they’re willing to do in the name of competition makes them so fascinating to watch.
90 miles an hour, five stories above the snow, two flips, three twists, land on a wall of ice, on skis and blades and boards, on snow and ice in circumstances consistently perilous아주 위험한, winter athletes press against the edge of what’s been done. While success can be exhilarating아주 신나는, failure can be gruesome섬뜩한. In a training run, Norwegian Aksel Svindal somehow endured a crash that broke bones in his face and slashed his groin사타구니 and stomach.
Just days before Vancouver, Shaun White’s attempt to land a revolutionary new trick, nearly struck a devastating blow to his gold medal hopes. For Lindsey Van, what could easily have been a broken back in Torino was fortunately just the mother of all bruises. At last year’s national trials, J.R. Celski’s blade did 60 stitches worth of damage. A contradictory relationship between cost and appeal매력 is a prominent feature of winter sport.
These athletes share a basic DNA structure with those in other high risk sports. These are the kids who really passed on a dare도전. And with each decade, the dares on the mountains and on the ice have only gotten bigger. Alpine courses are injected with water and frozen until they’re bullet proof and rocket fast The walls in the half pipe here two feet higher than in Torino, calculated to launch boarders into new tricks greater athleticism. And we already know the Whistler sliding course here is the fastest and perhaps the most dangerous track ever constructed.
And debuting at this year’s games, ski cross, a free willing stampede down carnival course of hairpin turns and monster air. With these games, the women and men of winter sports will try once again to hurl던지다 themselves over the constantly progressing border of what’s possible. The price can be terrible, but these athletes are willing to make a deal. They willingly trade personal safety for the pursuit of the Olympic ideal…. Higher, faster, stronger.