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...Skiers, there's no need to throw your poles. No sports argument is ever really settled. That's why we love sports so much. And thanks to the exploits of White and Vonn at these Olympics, this one is just getting started...
...Lindsey Vonn your questions...
...skiing crowd protects its turf: "I know what [snowboarders] do is massively difficult," says Chemmy Alcott, a skier from Great Britain who finished 13th in the downhill race. "But just being on skis, you can create so much more energy and speed than a snowboarder." Another biased observer, Vonn's younger sister Karin, offers one of the more rational reasons for favoring her sibling's sport. "It's like comparing gymnastics to football," says Karin, 21, a student at the University of San Diego. "With one you do tricks and stuff, but at the end of the day, [skiing] requires...
...than snowboarding," says snowboarder Markku Koski of Finland. (Attention snowboarders: Don't hire that guy as your spokesman.) Fortunately for the boarders, other players in the game will fight for White. "You need to be able to flip yourself multiple times," says Bower, who gives White the advantage over Vonn. "It's not just one jump. It's a series of jumps, five or six in these pipes. To land cleanly and to maintain the speed that you need to do the giant double flips that they're doing, that takes an incredible amount of athleticism...
...Well, maybe I drink too much. Here's one man's humble opinion, after witnessing both gold-medal performances on Wednesday: Vonn is awe-inspiring, but White is still the more impressive athlete. To me, it's all about the flipping. You can teach me to ski; obviously I'd never reach Vonn's level, but if thousands of folks of all ages hit the slopes every weekend, so can I. But I'm not pointing my head to the ground in mid-air. And I'm certainly not doing it 35 feet from the bottom on a pipe...