zlatna medalja!!!
It was borderline automatic. Dare I say it, but her performance is reminiscent of the 85 Bears under a certain head coach who will not be named. Now I must ask you my friend, who would win the gold medal if Janica was skiing with a piano on her back, acvanced cases of both the bubonic plague and asian bird flu, blindfolded, rubbed down with bacon fat with freaking sharks with freaking lasers instead of gates? My money's on...Janica. Shame on NBC for showing her in shorts, though.
Was without internet for the first day of our stay in STL, so I didn't get a chance to post anything, but here goes:
Thursday's competition was pretty boring. Don't even remember much.
Then Friday brought us Lindsey Jacobelis. It was worse than Leon Lett meeting Jean Van de Velde on the 18th fairway of Carnoustie wearing Chicago Cubs uniforms skating a Michelle Kwan routine. Did that girl who passed her remind anyone else of Mookie Wilson crossing the plate?
Yesterday's competition could have been the best televised Olympic days in years. I started it off by watching 4 hockey games. If anyone gets a chance to spend a day watching the hockey competition, it's worth it. The games end in two hours, the teams are playing with passion and the goaltending is off the charts.
Then there was some good biatholon-cross country skiing stuff, including the Frenchman's upset in biatholon. France could have used that guy before they rolled over for Germany in '41.
Last night's coverage had nothing but solid events, too. Two man, followed by Janica's inevitable triumph, followed by short track, followed by men's skiing, followed by long track, followed by Ohno choking again, capped off with the large hill! All great events.
Now Ohno. He quit skating. And though I personally needed his bronze, he showed no commitment to winning the gold whatsoever. Poor showing. And, his best buddy Shani Davis acted like a chump during his interview, too. Too bad, cause being from Evanston, I want to like Shani, but I just don't think I can.
Bode. Typical. I'll give Bode credit, every race is a different mistake.
TODAY'S MEDALS
Gold Janica. Duh.
Silver Kjetil Andre Aamodt. The baby shark adds a gold at age 34 to go with his two at 30 and one when he was 20 way back in Alberville. A win for us old folks.
Bronze Martin Gerber. He stopped something insane like 48 shots in a shutout of Canada. It was the definition of standing on one's head.
Was without internet for the first day of our stay in STL, so I didn't get a chance to post anything, but here goes:
Thursday's competition was pretty boring. Don't even remember much.
Then Friday brought us Lindsey Jacobelis. It was worse than Leon Lett meeting Jean Van de Velde on the 18th fairway of Carnoustie wearing Chicago Cubs uniforms skating a Michelle Kwan routine. Did that girl who passed her remind anyone else of Mookie Wilson crossing the plate?
Yesterday's competition could have been the best televised Olympic days in years. I started it off by watching 4 hockey games. If anyone gets a chance to spend a day watching the hockey competition, it's worth it. The games end in two hours, the teams are playing with passion and the goaltending is off the charts.
Then there was some good biatholon-cross country skiing stuff, including the Frenchman's upset in biatholon. France could have used that guy before they rolled over for Germany in '41.
Last night's coverage had nothing but solid events, too. Two man, followed by Janica's inevitable triumph, followed by short track, followed by men's skiing, followed by long track, followed by Ohno choking again, capped off with the large hill! All great events.
Now Ohno. He quit skating. And though I personally needed his bronze, he showed no commitment to winning the gold whatsoever. Poor showing. And, his best buddy Shani Davis acted like a chump during his interview, too. Too bad, cause being from Evanston, I want to like Shani, but I just don't think I can.
Bode. Typical. I'll give Bode credit, every race is a different mistake.
TODAY'S MEDALS
Gold Janica. Duh.
Silver Kjetil Andre Aamodt. The baby shark adds a gold at age 34 to go with his two at 30 and one when he was 20 way back in Alberville. A win for us old folks.
Bronze Martin Gerber. He stopped something insane like 48 shots in a shutout of Canada. It was the definition of standing on one's head.
posted by Anonymous at 9:44 AM
2 Comments:
I think Shani Davis was mad because instead of asking him how does it feel to win a gold medal or about the race, the woman asked him how it felt to be the first African American to win a gold medal in an individual event. That was insulting because it was like she was saying I don't care that you are the best in the world at your event, all I care about is your skin color. He's not Jackie Robinson! He happens to be black. It's not like African Americans have been banned from speed skating for several decades and the U.S. Olympic team took a "chance" on a darkie. It's not the 1948 Olympics in St. Moritz!
Her question also could be interpreted as patronizing -- like she was saying, "good for you! you won a gold medal even though you're black!"
Je pense que Shani Davis était fou parce qu'au lieu de demander lui fait comment il se sent pour gagner une médaille d'or ou de la course, la femme l'a demandé comment il s'est senti pour être l' Africain-Américain premièrement pour gagner une médaille d'or dans un événement individuel. Cela insultait parce que c'était comme elle disait que je ne soigne pas que vous soyez le meilleur dans le monde à votre événement, tout je soigne d'est votre couleur de peau. Il n'est pas Jackie Robinson ! Il arrive être du noir. Ce n'est pas comme les Américains africains a été interdit de patiner de vitesse pour plusieurs décennies et l'équipe Olympique américaine a encouru un risque sur un darkie. Ce n'est pas les 1948 jeux olympiques dans St. Moritz !
Sa question pourrait être aussi interprétée comme traitant avec condescendance -- comme elle disait, "eh, bon pour vous! vous avez gagné une médaille d'or bien que vous êtes noir!"
Christopher, even though you cringe at the thought of watching ice skating (let alone ice dancing), last night's string of falls should give you some enjoyment. Still pictures & nicely edited footage cuts right to the action.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/figureskating_icedancing/5119624/detail.html
Think Chinese pairs figure skating x4
French- I think her thong was too high up her butt
Lithuanians-pulled husband/partner down with her,
Canadians-most traumatic, she almost did a face plant and was eventually carried away in a stretcher
Italians-best stare off at the end of the fall/routine
Oh the drama- I have only 3 words of advice for these diminutive dancers – “eat a biscuit” once and a while it’ll help cushion the fall. I think ice dancing should be a full-contact sport & whichever couple is left standing at the end of the “dance-off” wins.
That’s all
-Gina
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