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How To Arouse America

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Published in Salzburger Nachrichten
(Austria) on 10 February 2010
by Gerhard Öhlinger (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Ron Argentati. Edited by Laura Berlinsky-Schine.
It’s hard to tell what goes on in Americans' minds. Or maybe we Austrians, in our ski-crazy nation, have become so oblivious that we’ve lost the ability to see the sex appeal in an ordinary downhill skiing position.

At any rate, Lindsey Vonn’s downhill tuck on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine caused all manner of arousal in her homeland. Is it just a matter of our American cousins having dirty imaginations? Or are they really that uninformed about skiing?

One thing is certain, however: There’s no innuendo intended, sexual or otherwise, in the fact that the chief sponsor of the Vancouver Olympics is Red Bull.


Wie man Amerika erregt
Von Gerhard Öhlinger
10. Feb 2010

Man weiß ja nicht, was in so einem US-amerikanischen Gehirn vorgeht. Vielleicht sind wir in unserer Skifahrernation aber auch einfach schon so abgestumpft, dass wir den Sex-Appeal nicht mehr erkennen, der einer gemeinen Abfahrtshocke innewohnt.

Wie auch immer: Die branchentypische Pose Lindsey Vonns auf dem "Sports Illustrated"-Cover löste in ihrer Heimat Erregung in all ihren Formen aus. Ob jetzt hier einfach die schmutzige Fantasie mit ein paar unserer US-Freunde durchgegangen ist oder sie schlicht wenig Ahnung vom Skifahren haben? Sicherheitshalber halten wir aber auch gleich fest: Das im Namen ihres Kopfsponsors erwähnte männliche Tier ist weder in diesem noch in einem anderen Zusammenhang als sexuelle Anspielung gedacht.
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