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.