Posted on 02/16/2014 12:47:39 PM PST by plain talk
US figure-skating champion Jeremy Abbott lashed out at his critics in a foul-mouthed rant after his and teammate Jason Brown's spectacular slump at the Sochi Olympics.
Olympic champion Evan Lysacek did not defend his title and Abbott and pony-tailed teen Brown failed to sparkle in the Iceberg Skating Palace, to leave the United States off the men's podium for the first time since the 1998 Nagano Games.
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Hurry... the millennial’s ego needs stroking immediately.
Well... thinking is not hard to not do too.
Of course it's a sport. Whenever you see some flamboyantly dressed male ice skater, you say "Hey sport, you skate pretty good."
Give credit where it’s due. Making it to the olympics requires a lifetime of incredibly hard work and self sacrifice.
I can’t believe that I’m about to defend figure skating; but, a debate without all the facts is useless.
Whether or not figure skating is a “sport”, is just semantics. (It would help a lot, if they stopped handing out bouquets of flowers to the skaters — especially the male skaters!)
Figure skating requires a lot of skill and athleticism. Also, at the competitive level, it comes with a high risk of injury. Furthermore, many people (not me) are willing to pay to see it. Professional figure skating is a big industry.
Nobody cares about your whining, Jeremy.
I just wonder when sodomites and trannies are going to start screaming to be allowed to compete in pairs skating, and ice dancing. Is that even still an Olympic sport, ice dancing?
Does the dumbazz think it’s less hard for the people who did medal?
I understand the points that figure skating is difficult, takes a lot of skill, and requires years of dedicated effort. I even enjoy watching it somewhat in the olympics. I don’t think curling is a sport either, and I’m pretty sure skeleton was invented by accident.
The skater’s remarks seem disproportionate and petty though. He showed a lot of heart by getting up and finishing his program after falling, then he squandered much of that good will by publicly reacting to anonymous internet criticism. There is a lot of money to be made on the pro skating circuit in the US, I think his asking price just dropped a bit.
Is he the one that had on the lace top? I have zero interest in the Olympics. I used to like the figure skating but all the gay stuff just makes me not want to watch. Bring back Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Hardy-now that was drama!
So he does figure skating?:)
The Olympics. Ugh.
That type of double negative is all too common now and in many cases if you point it out to someone they don’t seem to understand what you are trying to tell them. When I was a child even the least uneducated seemed to know better than that. Oh, yes, we would often say, “I can’t get no” like the Rolling Stones but we knew better than to say, “If you don’t think what I do is not hard” when we meant the opposite. We would say, “If you think what I do ain’t hard” or “If you don’t think what I do is hard”.
When I was a child even the least uneducated seemed to know better than that.The least uneducated never wrote no sentence like that.
Ping. It was Jeremy Abbott who had the meltdown.
Figure skating and gymnastics should not be in the Olympics. They're only there for the television money.
They are not sports. They are highly athletic, granted, but they aren't sports. They cannot be objectively measured. They are art. That's like putting ballet in to see who can spin fastest, or putting Horowitz and Rubinstein in competition to see who can play the octaves faster in the Tchaikovsky concerto finale.
No, they never didn’t, you ain’t wrong.
Same answer either way - "not only no, but hell no".
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