![]() ![]() sure enough, the canadian team had a crash, and while they got back up again it lost them significant time and allowed australia to eke out a bronze–this bronze was also the first medal australia EVER won at the winter. they prioritised staying safe on their feet and hoping other teams would crash. So in the 1994 winter olympics, the australian relay team (with bradbury as an active racer) decided to take a safe and conservative approach. get this: the reason is, his teammate lost his footing and crashed. So the man actually won gold in the world championships as part of the australian relay team in 1991, but when the team went to the winter olympics the next year, they dropped from third to fourth in the semi-finals and failed to make the finals. not to be an annoying australian but the whole “purely out of the luck of everyone else crashing, i unexpectedly won!” thing is like 50% myth. Hold on, lemme tell you about steven bradbury because the man’s olympic career is WILD. Yo thats steven bradbury, winner of the short track 1000 metres at the 2002 winter olympics! yooo!! he’s the first man from THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE to win a gold medal in the winter olympics!!! …so why don’t I just go ahead and assume you’re using that get-soldiers-free card today, I’ll get a squad together and send them back down to the village with you now”ĭespite staff’s recent changes, we’re… winning? Yeah that 13 year old over there who is, uh, currently scolding a squirrel, she’s uh, like super magical in this way we’ve never seen before and….uh, yeah… How? Oh well apparently the Riders just like found some girl who can talk to animals and she says the griffins agreed. Bad news: they also will still be living there when you get back, we didn’t eradicate them we just made a treaty with them. So anyway, good news: it’s now totally safe to return to your village, you will not be attacked by the griffins anymore. How about this I owe you a freebie- free soldiers, no justification needed, next time you ask. “Ok, so turns out there was indeed a mythical beast of legend that popped into existence in your village, so that’s egg on my face here, am I right? That one was on me, my bad guys. Imagine him having to go back to the villagers like ![]() When the terrified villagers showed up raving about mythical beasts, George was all willing to go along with it in terms of providing them shelter and food, but he had to draw the line at sending soldiers because he fundamentally did not believe them that a griffin had popped out of legend to attack their village (understandable)Īnd that just makes me picture a monty python-esque scene where like some village leader is like “IT WAS A MONSTROUS BEAST! IT HAD CLAWS LIKE SABERS! YOU HAVE TO SEND MEN” and George is just like “Mmm, mmm, yes, I hear you…but like, are we sure that maybe it wasn’t just…a bird?” and the leader is like “IT HAD THE HAUNCHES OF A LION! THE HEAD OF AN EAGLE! IT WAS NO BIRD MY LORD!” and George was like “Like maybe a really big, kind of aggressive, scary bird though?” and the villagers were like “MY LORD, TWAS A GRIFFIN, YOU MUST SEND SOLDIERS!” and George was like “Yeah…no, I’m probably not gonna do that…but hey, how about we all go have a nice dinner, my treat, everyone get a good night’s rest here…and then tomorrow when everyone is feeling more relaxed we can circle back on that bird idea again, see how it strikes you then.” ![]() It just occurred to me how funny this is, like ![]()
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