Posted on 02/17/2010 1:30:46 PM PST by OldDeckHand
VANCOUVER - Regardless of how things go at the rink, ice dancer Tanith Belbin will have some interesting 2010 Winter Olympic stories to tell her grandchildren.
She can tell them how she and partner Ben Agosto trudged through waist-high Delaware County snow to get in their final practices. Or how they had to reschedule their Thursday flight out of Philadelphia a dozen times. Or how their new costumes got stranded in Brooklyn and traveled to 30th Street Station on Amtrak.
Or, maybe most interestingly, she can tell them how she shared an Olympic Village room with Johnny Weir.
"I was only in my room about five minutes, but it smells amazing," Belbin said yesterday of the male skater's advance decorating. "Johnny said it did not [smell good before]. He said it smelled like wet dogs.
"It's beautiful. There are aromatic candles, and he had Audrey Hepburn posters and motivational quotes on the wall. And in the bedroom, he put away all my clothes."
The two skaters, who have Philadelphia-area connections - Belbin trains in Aston, and Weir was born in Coatesville - became an Olympic odd couple when they and defending world champion Evan Lysacek all requested single rooms. (Lysacek is both Weir's nemesis and a former boyfriend of Belbin's.)
The U.S. team, however, had only one single and one two-bedroom unit left in the athletes' village.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
""It's beautiful. There are aromatic candles, and he had Audrey Hepburn posters and motivational quotes on the wall. And in the bedroom, he put away all my clothes."
Homosexuals are so helpful around the house.
Obligatory picture of Tanith Belbin (and really what this thread is all about)...
maybe she needs a real amn like me.
I don’t know about a amn, but if I was 30 years younger ....
man...She looks like a young Cameron Diaz.
but better!
Yes, the but is better...
Weir-do’s costume last night was scary!
Johnny Weir is like a young Liberace on skates.
ouch!
Back 4 years ago, supposedly Weir had a Russian female figure skater gf and was seen around Turin with a couple of female athletes on his arms.
When do Chaz Michael-Michaels and Jimmy Maclory skate?
“Weir-do’s costume last night was scary!”
Oh my goodness! It was a full body black with an obvious corsette effect on his abdomen with pink ties in front and back and pink shoulder tassle. If he wants to be a girl skater, he should do so.
If this guy...
..isn't gay, it would be the biggest surprise in the history of surprises.. What Michael Jordan is to basketball, this guy is to the gay community.
I was shocked too but I am just reporting what I remember.
thanks for posting the link to that article.
Last night, he had a pink tassle on the shoulder of his outfit. He calls it "Rocking the Tassle" when performing. He was quoated when he arrived in Vancouver as making sure he had packed enough scented candles, stuffed animals, and posters of Lady Gaga. He said Lady GaGa was going to be his inspiration this olympics. Johnny Weir could not be more flaming homo if he tried.
Ohhhhh.....THANK you!
It was only for his fashion tips.........LOL!
well hell, that got this old boy’s motor runnin’!!!
Did she actually do that?
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