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)
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Date: 2002-02-22 01:25 am (UTC)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)