If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#31
|
|||
|
|||
|
Ads |
#32
|
|||
|
|||
I think that the sugar daddy I speak of would give this support.
Basically, I just see a millionaire behind both Lance and Greg and consider that a possibly vital missing link. It's most important, as you say, before the big win. It's the key to development success. It's not the money as reward angle, it's the money from a believer angle. I note (for a 3rd time) that Pete's recent article about the Germans says they are fewer than top US skiers but they they're fully supported, and then all pushed like crazy, let the chips fall where they may. Now we may never get the infrastructure without a history of winning or even XC appreciation, but to break our one Great Winter Hope on thru is going to require that at least that one skier gets all those things. And that will require the sugar daddy. (Or mommy!) --JP |
#33
|
|||
|
|||
On 15 Feb 2005 05:39:28 -0800, wrote:
I think that the sugar daddy I speak of would give this support. Basically, I just see a millionaire behind both Lance Who was behind Armstrong? JFT **************************** Remove "remove" to reply Visit http://www.jt10000.com **************************** |
#34
|
|||
|
|||
Thom Weisel.
Not the same as Mengoni but in the neighborhood. |
#35
|
|||
|
|||
32 degrees wrote: Jay, do you take paypal? I'm sending you $50,000 JK Of course I take PayPal. They don't call me "eBay Jay" for nothing... Jay Tegeder "Keep training, lycra never lies!" JT p.s. go to www.skinnyski.com and click on race results. Go to the last set of pictures for the 35K. Check out the skier wearing bib number 2366. Tell me if you think he needs to lose weight... |
#36
|
|||
|
|||
Jay,
I thought you were coming up shy on your 50k club reports. What happened this year ? This core of yours happened before our snow failure. Still doing the call for the Birkie sprints this year ? Dell wrote: 32 degrees wrote: Jay, do you take paypal? I'm sending you $50,000 JK Of course I take PayPal. They don't call me "eBay Jay" for nothing... Jay Tegeder "Keep training, lycra never lies!" JT p.s. go to www.skinnyski.com and click on race results. Go to the last set of pictures for the 35K. Check out the skier wearing bib number 2366. Tell me if you think he needs to lose weight... |
#37
|
|||
|
|||
|
#38
|
|||
|
|||
|
#39
|
|||
|
|||
So do you guys really think that having a well supported race team and/or
champion will "save XC" in the US? I thought we were talking about saving the sport as a popular sport that sustains an industry of shops and ski trails. I don't think the skiing public is affected by race results. They are affected by having a fun, easy to access sport that they can do for a variety of reasons - family time, personal time, fitness, recreation, etc. I don't see Lance Armstrong having had any affect at all on the bike buying and/or riding public. I don't see a successful us XC ski team affecting the overall viability of the XC ski industry at all. Just MHO, of course, but it seems the discussion has focused on racing, and I don't think that's the important factor. It's negligable. Weather/climate is 1000000X more important. Accessiblity and "fun" is 1000000x more important. Cam |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Save every Abraham personal e-mail | Dick Gozinya | Alpine Skiing | 6 | August 3rd 04 06:28 PM |
Noise! Harleys vs. the 4-stroke revolution | Jeff Potter | Nordic Skiing | 4 | June 7th 04 11:59 AM |
French-speaking snowboarder will save America. | Inger Skramstad Jørstad | Alpine Skiing | 14 | April 6th 04 10:36 AM |
Save the Children of Stowe from Anthea Kerrison, Psychopath | scottabe | Alpine Skiing | 25 | December 22nd 03 06:19 PM |