This blog post is in reference to The Early Lead’s article regarding Lindsey Vonn’s withdrawll from the Olympics.
LIndsey Vonn recently tweeted out the shocking news that she will be withdrawing from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. After suffering a sprained MCL in last February’s race in D’Isere, France mixed with a torn ACL from continued racing the pain seems have finally gotten to the point of unbearability and would ultimately be too dangerous for her long term knee health to continue on into the Olympics.
As an active skiier and snowboarder my heart goes out to Lindsey as I can only imagine the type of emotional carnage that she is going through. This has been something that she has done her whole life and her body is now starting to fail her. Mountain sports such as these take a serious toll on the body both physically and mentally, especially when doing this type of thing for a living where your health is your life blood and if your health fails you then you can’t make money.
I hope and pray that Lindsey is able to make a full recovery and compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics if she chooses to do so. And as for all of the other USA team members, you’ll be getting 110% of my rooting capabilities during your events.
Go Team USA!
Lewis proposes and interesting question which doesn’t often cross our minds, whether we are able to freely choose our values. I’m intrigued by the polar opposite political views within your friend’s family. After reading Lewis’ article I wonder what modes were put into play to create such a difference in values. Whether your friend’s values were developed through sense experience of his father’s conservative views and using deductive logic to emerge as a democrat or if through the authority of another influential person aided to the development of his values.
I agree with both you and Lewis that, “values are freely chosen [through] personal evaluations and beliefs,” which includes the influences of upbringing and possibly the values of those in their community (8, Lewis). Nevertheless, there are innumerous examples of people who have defied all odds and become remarkable individuals, which lead me to agree with Lewis that none of this “can neither be proven nor refuted,” (8, Lewis).
-Liz
I think you meant to respond to my original post about values, but you commented on my post about lindsey vonn haha
great post though!