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Post by gloria on Dec 10, 2005 17:55:04 GMT -5
One of my largest obsessions rears its head once only every four years...
That would be the Winter Olympics!!! I like all of the winter games, but my favorite of favorites would have to be-- Figure Skating!
The 2006 Winter Olympic Games are taking place February 10-26 in Italy... I'll be watching a lot of all of them, but I will be sure to catch every minute of both the mens and womens skating, because they are so much fun to watch.
Of course, I've gotta root for the home team (well, the US team, my home team!), and a lot of the greats in the sport are Russian. I love to see any good program, but I'll be cheering the loudest for-
- Evgeni Plushenko!!! <3
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- Sasha Cohen!!!
I'll also be rooting for-
-Johnny Weir
-Timothy Goebel
-Michelle Kwan
-Irina Slutskaya
That is, 1 Russian in mens and womens, and 2 Americans in mens and womens... this is what I call self-restraint!
Anyone else have some skating favorites? What about some other winter games, and athletes thereof? Or whatever? ;D
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Post by trishna87 on Dec 10, 2005 18:04:52 GMT -5
omg!! figure skating is like one winter sprt i do try to catch if its on!  the russians and chinese are rather good aren't they? Sasha Cohen is awesome in my books as is Michelle Kwan and also that frenchie Brian Joubert has the cutest butt and smile  *swoon* i love it whenever they do like the triple axle jumps |
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Post by iluvronniekins on Dec 10, 2005 18:10:12 GMT -5
Oh no! we aren't gonna do the olympics thing again are we! hahaha I had to deal with it in 04 when you lot went on and on about the summers!
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Post by trishna87 on Dec 10, 2005 18:23:08 GMT -5
this is the winter olympics  |
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Post by iluvronniekins on Dec 10, 2005 18:25:18 GMT -5
yeah haha they are better than summer olympics! haha I do like the figure skating but thats about it~!
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Post by gloria on Dec 10, 2005 21:17:20 GMT -5
w00t w00t! Figure skating l0ve!
Yeah, I did not watch a single summer event... I watched the opening cerimony and that was it! I don't like any of those sports enough to watch them.
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Post by iluvronniekins on Dec 10, 2005 21:18:28 GMT -5
haha I hate to watch people run and swim like i hate running and swimming is like boring to watch hahaha
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Post by gloria on Dec 10, 2005 21:37:16 GMT -5
Yep yep! Running=sooo boring...
Unlike watching a skater land a quad, which is exciting every time.
The first female to land a quad is Moa Asada - she is to young to compete in the 06 winter games, something like 14 or 15 years old. She is an amazing jumper, though. Still, she doesn't really seem like too much of an artist to me, more of a mathematician... like, when I watch her skate I see amazing air and jumps - but no passion or artistry. I dunno, that's probably just me, though.
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Post by iluvronniekins on Dec 10, 2005 21:41:59 GMT -5
eh stupid mathematicians they can do anything because everything has some kind of formula to back it up.... but its true they dont have the artistry
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Post by gloria on Dec 10, 2005 21:43:58 GMT -5
Ya, I don't know if that's really true of her or not, but that's what Mao seems like to me at least.
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Post by arielleblack on Dec 10, 2005 22:17:14 GMT -5
Oooooo! Hockey Hockey Hockey Hockey!!!! We are going to kick your American tails!
Nuff said.
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Post by gloria on Dec 10, 2005 22:26:40 GMT -5
Hahaha... probably. The American team is not exactly world famous for being the best Hockey players around! I do bet you enjoy that, though! Watching the American team get smashed again and again every four years...
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Post by Snowflakie06 on Dec 11, 2005 16:11:07 GMT -5
I used to be so obsessed over the Olympics... and not even JUST the Olympics... I just loved ice skating, Kristi Yamaguchi was SO my idol!
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Post by gloria on Dec 11, 2005 20:16:13 GMT -5
She's popped out... I think 3 kids. She just had another one a few weeks ago. She's married to a hockey player! Hahaha... I thought that was hillarious.
And, yeah, I don't just watch the Olympics either, I am just more obsessed with them than the other things like Champions on Ice and the ISU Grand Prix of Figureskating. (Yeah, I watch as much of the Grand Prix as I can.)
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Post by Snowflakie06 on Dec 11, 2005 23:03:36 GMT -5
drat... I know she's retired... I cried when I found out she was retiring.... There are some really good male ice skaters too but I just... can't think of their names... But Michelle Kwan is good too, almost as good as Kristi Yamaguchi... but not quite there.
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Post by gloria on Dec 13, 2005 20:24:16 GMT -5
Umm... in the Salt Lake games these are the men that medaled-
Gold - Alexei Yagudin (super hot, but no longer competing)
Silver- Evgeni Plushenko (best skater competing this season)
Bronze- Timothy Goebel (he's good, but not amazing except for his quads)
The other men that I can recall competing in the ISU Grand Prix-
Johnny Weir is really good
There's Stefan and Stephane, I can't remember thier last names, one from Switzerland and one from Germany... and I think there is another guy from France that does well, but I'm not certain. Oh! There's a Romanian who always has cool costumes, too!
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Post by Snowflakie06 on Dec 13, 2005 20:29:18 GMT -5
Even if you mentioned some guy's name I knew, I probably wouldn't recognize it....
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Post by gloria on Jan 21, 2006 17:49:31 GMT -5
Okay, I've decided... I am only going to root for two skater the entire time-
- Evgeni Plushenko and Sasha Cohen
'Cause Michelle Kwan is creating drama. (By petitioning for a spot on the US team that she did not rightfully earn, even though she said she was through with the Olympics in '02.), and 'cause I haven't seen enough skating to know how well Kimmie Meissner does... and I don't really like Emily Hughes, even if Michelle doesn't take her spot on the team. Annnd... Irina Slutskaya is cool... but I like Sasha Cohen better. But I guess I'll sorta be rooting for all of them... to have good programs... but Sasha Cohen had better get the Gold!!!
As for mens skating... Evgeni Plushenko is still really amazing. If he doesn't get the gold I will be really upset... Of the men on the US team (Johnny Weir, Evan Lysacek, and Matt Savoie) Johnny Weir is the only one that really made an impression... and he's good but not fantastic... even though his costumes are cool...
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Post by gloria on Jan 21, 2006 17:55:20 GMT -5
Okay, so this is my order of who should win what medals for singles skating in Torino--
Mens:
Gold - Evgeni Plushenko (Russia)
Silver- Stephane Lambiel (Switzerland)
Bronze- Johnny Weir (USA)
Womens-
Gold- Sasha Cohen (USA)
Silver- Irina Slutskaya (Russia)
Bronze- Maybe one of the US contestants or some 'suprise'. Probably Michelle Kwan if she makes the team.
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Post by gloria on Jan 21, 2006 17:56:32 GMT -5
Everybody should start getting hyped!!!
The games start February 10th!!! That's sooner than you think!
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Post by Snowflakie06 on Jan 21, 2006 22:13:17 GMT -5
I heard about Michelle Kwan but I didn't know it was getting that bad with her... geez...
February 10th is..... when? *checks calender* I DON'T WANT FEBRUARY TO COME!!!! (sorry, I just hate the beginning of February)
ETA: Actually I hate the entire first half of February.
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Post by gloria on Jan 22, 2006 14:11:03 GMT -5
Why do you hate Feb.??
I think you should stop hating it... on the 10th!!!
Yeah... I used to really like Michelle Kwan... and she is still an amazing skater... but now she's makin' drama, and I'm not a fan of that at all!
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Post by Snowflakie06 on Jan 22, 2006 17:32:52 GMT -5
On the 4th I got a really bad phone call last year (the guy who committed suicide) then I think it was the next weekend or sometime during that week I went to the wake and funeral, it was probably about 7 days after or something and then the 14th is Valentine's Day. *stabs*
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Post by gloria on Jan 22, 2006 22:01:52 GMT -5
Death is always a sad thing... cases like that particularly so... but maybe when this early February turns out to be less sad than the last it'll be a less painful time for you. (Though I'm not sure how much I'd bank on that... early June for me is still a really sad time, because now it is a time of remembrance... but the last one was less painful than it was two years before.)
Yeah, Valentine's Day isn't much fun, but I'd rather be the odd girl out than deal with things like even heavier emotional burdens, such as lives cut short. And, this year, I'll have the Olympics distracting me!
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Post by Marissa on Jan 22, 2006 22:59:39 GMT -5
o.O
Zee Olympics.
Oh, hide me, hide me.
Like. Skating is fun to watch, but I won't search it out. But like. If I'm walking to the kitchen or something and I see it on the TV, I will like. Sit down and not get up. Like. I can't stop when I've started.
o.O
Errrrmmmm. Sasha Cohen is adorable. She's only like. Barely 5 feet. And that is so cute. *pinches her cheeks* hahahaaaa
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Post by gloria on Jan 23, 2006 15:20:06 GMT -5
She is aaaammmaaazzzinnngg!!! I guess she is pretty tiny, though...
Yeah... I will search it out. And I, too, cannot stop once I have begun viewing.
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*swoon*
