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lady_mercury in ontd_extreme

This is a Shani Davis Post

Mar 27, 2010 15:15

!Fuck Yeah Shani Davis!

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shani davis, speedskating

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SHWAK YOON-DAVIS. tasheila March 27 2010, 19:24:39 UTC

Re: SHWAK YOON-DAVIS. acupofpassion March 27 2010, 19:25:47 UTC

Is that Trav at 0:11?!

Re: SHWAK YOON-DAVIS. yay_4_me March 27 2010, 20:06:49 UTC

What the fuck was that?

Re: SHWAK YOON-DAVIS. midnightland March 27 2010, 20:08:25 UTC

it's basically rock paper scissors and whoever loses is hit.

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acupofpassion March 27 2010, 19:24:54 UTC

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subliculous March 27 2010, 21:40:48 UTC

Chicago represent.

arctic_blossom March 27 2010, 19:36:59 UTC

I love Shani sfm. He is such an adorable muppet.

"I avoid a lot of pretty nasty situations by keeping to myself and being friends with my friends rather than, like, exert myself to being friends with people I'm competing with all the time. Cause, I wanna win and they wanna win. It's hard to be friends when we're both trying to win, heh, there's only one gold medal!"

This definitely sums up Apolo as well (except for the avoiding situations lolllll). He and Shani's bff-ness is so cute.

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fuyufirefly March 27 2010, 19:52:19 UTC

this is news to me. I always got the vibe that everyone loved Shani. I sure do!

triedthistwice March 27 2010, 20:01:07 UTC

I think it's the fact that he's pretty unwilling to make nice with his fellow athletes, but as you can see above, he has a damn good reason to do so.

I think he's awesome!

dizzymisslizzy8 March 27 2010, 20:05:17 UTC

And the thing is he is still friends with some of them like Apolo! It isn't like he is completely secluded. He is still cool!

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lady_mercury March 27 2010, 20:01:38 UTC

Back in the 2006 games, Shani backed out of skating in the team pursuit because he strictly wanted to race individually and that he wasn't even eligible for the team pursuit. He was an alternate, but still, did not want to be tied to the event. Apparently there was a lot of drama, Chad Hedrick didn't help in calming the fires too and gave Shani crap for it. Shani was getting a lot of heat for it too, being called unpatriotic and crap and US Speedskating didn't say a damn thing to defend Shani and his decision.

So Shani was basically fighting a battle against the media and his own "team mates" without any support so he, in return, said screw you guys and turned his back on American media and US Speedskating.

sestiere March 27 2010, 21:05:50 UTC

Yeah, I think I read/heard that him and Danny use to practice together.

anrin March 27 2010, 21:14:50 UTC

lol I'm pretty sure it's Denny not Danny, but yeah they're pretty close.