Any sports fan who saw Lyndsey Jacobellis grab her board unnecessarily and fall during what should have been a simple coast to gold on Friday knows what Jacobellis is: LOSER. Today's NY Times editorial tries to defend Jacobellis because "she was having fun". Well, you know what? If that's what snowboarding is about then it doesn't belong in the Olympics. There's nothing about "having fun" in citius, altius, fortius.
Either snowboarding is a real sport that deserves the attention of sports fans or it's professional wrestling - fun pretending to be a sport. Jacobellis may have been having fun, but she was not being an Olympian. I'm glad she lost.
