The Winter Olympics have been a disappointment for snowboard racer Glenn De Blois. He was eliminated in Beijing directly in the eighth finals, after he was already in the placement runs speed short with the 27th time of the 32 participants.
As the winner of a World Cup competition (last year in Chiesa, Italy), the 26-year-old De Blois should have been able to compete for the prizes, but he was fourth and last in his heat of the eighth finals.
Wrong wax?
The Blois clearly lacked speed compared to the rest. Wopke De Vegt, technical director of the Dutch Ski Association, had after the first plate run the suspicion that De Blois had wrong wax on his board.
“It could be the choice of the wax or a gust of wind,” he told the NOS. “The course is fairly flat. Therefore, it is difficult to get up to speed. They will have to do something with the wax, that’s the conclusion.”
The Blois did not go along with that after the second run. “To throw it right on the wax, I never do that anyway. I don’t think that’s the problem either, I just drove badly. I don’t know, too many mistakes.”
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