Posted on 02/20/2014 11:36:43 AM PST by C19fan
I think we should forget all the olympic events unless they are timed or some way you can score - such as hockey.
Saw this. Heartbreaking. We led 2/0 for two plus periods Canada scored twice in the final three minutes. We lost in sudden death ot the American team played great hockey all through the series
You know what Obama would do. You just don't know which ladyboy male skaters he'd choose to do it with.
“Far cry from 1980. IMHO Eric Heiden was the greatest US Olympian of all. Nobody dominated a sport like he did.”
Are you forgetting Edwin Moses? Heiden did it in one Olympics, Moses in multiple. UNDEFEATED in his specialty for ELEVEN YEARS!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Moses
If Moses won the 100, 200, 880 and 10,000 meter events, then I would say he was on par with Eric Heiden.
I was a competitive skater in the 1980s before they got rid of compulsory figures, which was the beginning of the end for figure skating. The final nail in the coffin was retiring the 6.0 scoring system and replacing it with the “code of points.” As in dance where ballet is the foundation for all genres of dance, in skating compulsory figures are the foundation for all genres of skating, i.e., singles, pairs and ice dancing. Everything a skater does on the ice is based on them. They were taught in order to gain control and confidence of blade edges. A solid foundation in figures made you a better freeskater. Figures were eliminated from competition after 1990. After the 2002 Olympics they abolished the 6.0 scoring system and replaced it with the “code of points” so now skating has been reduced to a jumping contest and who can rack up the most points whereas skating before had been lyrical and artistic as well as athletic. I haven’t watched skating since Michelle Kwan retired from the sport. Want to see some of the best, head on over to YouTube and look up old videos of Kwan, Boitano, Hamill and Curry,Babilonia and Gardner, Torville and Dean then compare to a skater of today and note the painful difference.
Kim made the fatal mistake of saying she was a practicing Christian who always thanked God for her ability to skate. She was screwed out of the God. A blind man could see it.
“She was screwed out of the God”
Out of the Gold I mean. Skating on one leg she’s better than Natasha Baddenoff.
Don’t know much about it. But found it interesting the prediction came true.
Kim Yuan, Yuan Kim, Kim Yuna, Yuna Kim, Yu-Na Kim, Kim Yu-Na.. Who is who and which is which?
김연아 is probably how it is spelled in Korean hangul
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