Don't Be So Hard On The SnowBoarder

"It's not as if she won the silver as much as she lost the gold."

These are the words of one of the commentators after the American Women's Snowboarder fell and took the silver medal instead of the gold which she was well on her way to winning. Sure. She was showing off by grabbing her board in mid-air at the last jump of the snowboardcross. She was way ahead and she did "lose" the gold. But, cut her some slack. She is a snowboarder. That is what they do. It wouldn't be snowboarding if there wasn't some of that going on anyway.

She simply likes her sport more than she likes the Olympics.