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Old February 8th, 2014 #49
Alex Linder
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In theory at least, the Olympics, the winter Olympics, should be a showcase for the white spirit. So we find it with gold medal winner Sage Kotsenburg (blond haired and blue eyed):

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Sage Kotsenburg won America its first gold today in Snowboard Men's Slopestyle and, as you might imagine, a human flying through the air in front of snowcapped mountains is wonderful eye candy.

This was the event and course that many in the sport felt was unnecessarily dangerous, prompting snowboarding's biggest star, American Shaun White, to pull out of the event altogether earlier this week. Despite all that, Kotsenburg won with a trick he had never tried before. He called his brother and coach before the finals to discuss it.

He wanted to throw a trick called "Back 16 Japan" on his first run in the Olympic finals, never mind that he hadn't tried the move in practice or prior competition. No one talked him out of it.

"I ended up landing it, and winning with it," Kotsenburg said, laughing. The trick is four and a half backwards spins (1620 degrees of rotation), while grabbing the backside of his board (Japan).
Sean White, normally a fount of white spirit - boundary-expanding bravery - was anti-white at this Olympics, publicly pulling out of this in event in such a way as to deny another American a chance to compete. That is the OPPOSITE of white spirit - being a selfish pussy.

Anyway, congratulations to Kotsenburg, who is from Cour D'Alene, Idaho, by way of Park City, Utah. Notice again, ye underreaders, the fact a name ends in -berg or -burg does not mean the bearer's a jew.









The white spirit is to be at the pushing edge of things - finding, discovering, seeking something better, farther, greater, no matter the area of endeavor. There are only so many sports examples in here because they are more visually dramatic, hence easier to depict and document.

[as a sidelight, here's an interested bit about the way photos of this sort of event are normally TEMPLATED in the controlled media...you will notice the parallels to politics. Even where there's no politics involved, the media tend to be herd animals. Everything got to be done the same way everyone else does. LINK. ]

Last edited by Alex Linder; February 8th, 2014 at 04:48 PM.