SHOWBOATING = LOSER

It's 4:51 a.m. Junior and Patrick are downstairs watching videos.

Lindsay Jacobellis is a hot-body blonde US olympic athlete, a world Champion in Snowboarding cross, and yesterday she had a lead in the First-ever finals that was insurmountable, looked like over two hundred feet and three or four seconds in an event that fractions of seconds sometimes separate the first and second places...

So with just thirty yards to go, she does a showboating move, grabbing her board and wipes out! One girl passes her for the gold medal, she gets up, recovers to come in second (That's how far ahead she was of the rest of the pack)

and settles for Silver. She lost the First Gold medal awarded in the event in the Olympics, due to bad judgement.

Sorry Lindsay, I'm sure you'll never make that mistake again.

She's only twenty, she's had a charmed life so far. We've seen other athletes, some pros, who should know better, that get caught up in the moment and start celebrating short of the goal line or the finish line, and ultimately lose. Like the pro golfer that cavalierly one-hands a one-foot put and misses. Usually these mental lapses don't cost them as much--Lindsay's will haunt her the rest of her life. To see her standing all alone stunned and crying at the finish line, while the winner (who was second best, really that day,) was being mobbed and congratulated was poinient indeed --The Agony of Defeat--The tortoise and the Hare. Lindsay,

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IT AIN'T OVER 'TIL THE FAT LADY SINGS

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--Trader Rick

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