yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

[phamos]

sarah hughes won!

i have to go post on the fametracker schadenfreude thread about how i was hoping michelle kwan would fall and leave space open for sarah to win. and i was going "fall,michelle, fall!" and then she did, and i cackled insanely. segev had a look of absolute shock on his face at me being so evil.

but i'm sorry, michelle kwan always struck me as so fake, and sarah hughes was so...real! so damn cute and just excited to be there. she wasn't skating to prove anything, she was skating because it was her dream to be doing exactly that -- to be center stage on the olympic ice. and she went out and skated the best she could. THAT's what should be rewarded. it was possibly the most perfect routine i've ever seen. and she wasn't tara lipinksi, all overly cute and obnoxiously excited. she was genuinely thrilled.

i like when things end the way i want them to.

Comments

[rainherder.livejournal.com]

I've only rooted for a couple of skaters to fall, and neither of them did. One was Katarina Witt in 1988, and the other was that Russian guy in the big poofy shirt who won the gold in either Albertville or Lillehammer.

I like Kwan, but I think the final order was correct. What I don't like is that Kwan had to fall for Hughes to have a chance at the gold, but that's because of the ordinal scoring system.

[phamos818.livejournal.com]

not the hot guy in the stupid giraffe-y poofy shirt in nagano, right? cuz he was hot.

[rainherder.livejournal.com]

The guy everybody said looked like Leonardo DiCaprio? No, not him. I got sick of him pretty quickly (in no small part because of the Leo comparisons), and wouldn't have been heartbroken if he'd fallen while wearing that godawful shirt (what does a big poofy giraffe shirt have to do with Gershwin, anyway?). But I didn't want him to fall. No, I wanted the previous Russian in a big poofy shirt (Urmanov?) to fall. His skating was just so... bland, and he seemed so full of himself. Plus, I wanted Elvis to win that year, and everybody going gaga over that Russkie pretty boy in a frilly poofy shirt just made me want to puke.

[seltzerduke.livejournal.com]

You're not alone... I'm certain my neighbours for blocks around heard my malicious cackling (entirely spontaneous) when Miz Kwan took that unflattering spill. I realise that's petty, but her princess-like, quasi-divaesque attitude (i.e, temperamental and dismissive of competitors) had been grating on me throughout the Olympics; all the taped recollections of her crushing defeat at having won ONLY the silver in Nagano (sob sob) and her graciousness in labelling Lipinski as having gotten lucky (to paraphrase) didn't help endear me to her cause, either.

Did you notice how she hustled onto the ice moments after Cohen's program had ended, before the latter had even left the ice or the flowers and gifts had been collected? How courteous to her teammate.... =P

I was inclined to skip the event that for some reason has come to dominate each Winter Olympics, but luckily I tuned in. It was refreshing to see the judges award scores based on a performance's merit, rather than simply the skater's reputation, so that the underdog could stage a surprise victory like that; though admittedly both Slutskaya and Kwan had to falter in order for it to happen.

(Maybe the judges are probably still spooked by the pairs skating row, and are walking on eggshells; of course, the moral of that story was that one only needs to stage enough news conferences and talk show appearances and claim to have been cheated in order to reverse an event's outcome. =P)

[phamos818.livejournal.com]

i TOTALLY noticed when kwan jumped right on the ice. dude, way to be gracious. i hear sasha cohen's pretty much a bitch, too, but at least she's upfront about it. kwan's all "big fake smile, big fake smile, i don't have to actually attempt to improve my skating, i'm michelle kwan and i should always win, so so beautiful, laaa!" whatever. i just don't get her supposedly remarkable artistic stylings. in my eyes, sarah hughes won both technically and presentationwise. no contest. even if kwan hadn't fallen, sarah still should have won the free skate. (which i know wouldn't have led to the gold cuz of the short program. just saying.)

[phamos818.livejournal.com]

by the way -- i like your bio.