OMG *squee!*

[ginny_t]

There's a little hole in my sock, which I'll call Jeff Buttle's bronze medal!

This will be familiar to gleefulfreak… My Ψ book talks about the difference in satisfaction between olympic Bronze medalists and silver medalists. Bronze medalists are happy just to be on the podium, whereas silver medalists are often focussed on having missed out on the gold.

Dear Mr. Sour Grapes French guy,

You claim that you can't be an Olympic medallist without the quad. Whatever. Neither can you be without choreography. Dude! The first 2 minutes were jump-skate-jump-skate-jump. *yawn*

Love,
Canada!

In other news, I still hate sports commentators, particularly skating ones.

Comments

[andora.livejournal.com]

What station did you watch? 'Cause Barb Underhill used to be a good commentator before they threw Broke-ass Paul Martini up there with her.

And YAY JEFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Joubert is a mass whiner. MASS whiner. He has a complex because he's "good looking" and thus feels kinda entitled and freaks out when he fucks up. Men are so stupidly complicated.

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

I watched it on CBC. I dislike sports commenting on principle.

May I say that egg on his face is *so* becoming to Joubert? ^_^

So, one night, I was leaving my weaving class, and one of the women was giving me a lift. She turned to another woman and asked, "how is your son enjoying his retirement?" This woman was mid-60's-ish - pretty young to have a retired son. So I asked what he did. The first woman leaned over and whispered, "he's Paul Martini". I said nothing more until she dropped me off at the subway. *embarrassing!*

[andora.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, that's so awesome!!! But seriously, Paul Martini is such a dick. He is harsh on skaters appearance, often saying that SURGICAL PROCEEDURES are not a bad idea to get better presentation/components scores. He doesn't shut up with criticisms, though the real star of his pair was never him. And he RUINED this great skating board called figure skating world when he took iSkater in and tried to ROB the POSTERS. And so he ended up broke with that venture, and jumps on ANYTHING he can, even though he's NOT a qualified commentator.

GOD.

But yes, egg on Joubert's face? Tres bien!!! France has great ice dancers, anyways. Fuck the men. hahahah.

:( I'm sorry if my overly-passioned chat about skating scares people off about talking about it. Because it's too subjective a sport for only my opinion to be heard. ;) (Except when opinions are misinformed in the vein of stupidity, but that's not often)

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! It's not scared off, it's basking in the glow of your superior knowledge. ^_^

I didn't see Weir(d) skate, but I heard the announcers slagging his program while I was typing the first entry. He pretty much fell apart trying to put it back together, and they pretty much gave a blow by blow of how everything he tried just made it worse. It probably didn't need that level of detail.

Surgical procedures? WTF, dood?!

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

More on Weir(d). I switched to NBC for a minute, and they did a spot on the Men's finals that they'll be airing later, and "Weir, can he do it?" They showed Scott Hamilton saying something along the lines of "all you have to do is tell him he can't and he will just to spite you". Um… no

[lordshipmayhem.livejournal.com]

Barb Underhill - now that's a blast from the past.

Why? Because I grew up with her former skating partner, a l'il runt named Jimmy. His dad worked with my dad on the fire department, they lived on the same block as I did, and we ended up going to the same elementary through high schools.