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Amundson averaged 5.0 points and 4.5 rebounds in two games during his first
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Custom Brooklyn Nets Jersey . -- Adrian Peterson takes a look around the league and sees big money flying everywhere.CALGARY -- The man who gave the host
country one of its most memorable moments of the 2010 Winter Olympics faces long
odds to compete at the next Winter Games. Jon Montgomerys gold medal in skeleton
at the Whistler Sliding Centre and his subsequent auctioning off of a pitcher of
beer in the village square elevated him to folk-hero status. But the 34-year-old
from Russell, Man., might not make the 2014 team for Sochi, Russia, in February.
Montgomerys results the last season and a half have yet to meet Bobsleigh Canada
Skeletons qualification criteria. He needs to hit the ball out of the park and
also have little luck in the four races he has left to qualify before Jan. 19.
"Unfortunately for me, Im fighting an uphill battle in that regard," Montgomery
said Wednesday in Calgary. "I would guess the way things have gone it would be
nothing short of winning the four races before that deadline." Mellisa
Hollingsworth of Eckville, Alta., Calgarys Sarah Reid and John Fairbairn and
Eric Neilson of Kelowna, B.C., were introduced Wednesday as Canadas skeleton
athletes for Sochi. Canada can qualify a third man and a third woman for Sochi
in January, according to head coach Duff Gibson. Should Canada gain those
berths, Montgomery is up against Dave Greszczyszyn of Burlington, Ont., for the
final spot on the mens team. It will come down to points earned in races.
Greszczyszyn is currently ranked 23rd in the world and Montgomery 25th with 32
points separating them. Montgomery didnt qualify in fall selection races for the
World Cup team. Hes competing on the secondary Intercontinental Cup circuit
where results are worth fewer points than World Cup results. Greszczyszyn will
continue to race World Cups. "Dave will be earning twice as many points for his
results on World Cup than I will be on IC," Montgomery said. "If I win all four
races and Dave gets 13th in his races hell beat me out in points." If the two
men end up close or tied in points, it could come down to coachs discretion,
which Gibson doesnt relish. The 2006 Olympic champion hopes the sliders sort it
out themselves so he can avoid that painful decision. "By delaying our third
selection until we know there is a third Canadian spot allows them to separate
themselves based on performance, rather than us having to make a subjective
choice," Gibson said. Montgomery will race twice in Whistler, B.C., on the track
of his Olympic triumph before a pair of races in Park City, Utah, in January.
"Im always optimistic," he said. "Ill work until the cows come home for any kind
of a chance. Im not going to worry about the race results before they happen.
"Im going to be worried about the next run, the next inch, the next corner. If I
get ahead of that, Im not focused on whats important, which is the things I can
control right now. "I wont bbe defined by my failures and this is hardly a
failure yet.
Drazen Petrovic Nets Jersey. " Montgomery has yet to bond with the sled he built from scratch when he took the 2011-12 season
off from racing. The first World Cup after the 2010 Olympics was in Whistler and
Montgomery won there. But he didnt finish on the podium again that season.
Unwilling to race on a sled that got him wins on just one track in the world and
looking ahead to Sochi, Montgomery worked with the metal construction company
Standens on a new sled. The move hasnt translated into success on the track.
Montgomery needed four top-six results in World Cups the last season and a half
to automatically qualify for Sochi. He was sixth once in 2012-13 and was at a
major disadvantage this season not qualifying for the World Cup. Montgomery
doesnt regret the season he took off or the move to a new sled. Hes sure there
would be no chance of beating Latvian skeleton superstar Martin Dukars or
Russian slider Alexander Tretiakov, who are co-favourites for gold in Sochi, if
he didnt make the change. "The sled that Ive got right now is better than the
sled I used to be on," Montgomery said. "Theres no question. The only
unfortunate part, and the reason why I was so successful in 2010, was because
that old sled was like an extension of my body. "When I was competing in 2010 in
Vancouver, that sled Id been on for eight years. I knew exactly how it would
react to every single situation I was presented with. Im not there with my
Standen sled. I havent had the time to get comfortable with it yet." And its not
a simple matter of going back to his former sled, he says. Montgomery hasnt been
on it for three years and his body would have to re-learn it. There isnt time
for equipment tinkering now. Montgomery says he was the fastest Canadian on the
Sochi track during an international training week in the fall. "I was the
fastest Canadian athlete by a good bit, but thats neither here nor there," he
said. "Its disappointing for me not to be given the benefit of the doubt of that
leadership, that past performance proof that Im maybe the best person for the
job, but Im in this situation by my own doing. "I cant blame anybody. If youre
expecting to be given consideration based on past performance, youre kidding
yourself." Montgomery took the risks he did because he wanted another Olympic
medal. "I was searching for that special thing I knew I would have to do to be a
medallist this go around," Montgomery explained. "Ive got no interest in
becoming a two-time Olympian. My interest was always I wanted to do everything
in my power to go there and defend my Olympic gold medal, our Olympic gold
medal. "Ive got zero regrets. I know I created the bed Im sleeping in, but Im
only disappointed. Disappointed is fleeting. Regret is lasting."
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