[TexasFreeper2009]

This is really a non-issue since the sad crop went sent to the Olympics this year seem incapable of actually winning any medals.

By the way .... is anyone else seriously embarrassed by our athletes in general this Olympics? I don't mean just because they are losing, I mean ... they are mostly an embarrassment with their dyed hair, tattoos, piercing, sloppy clothes and poor personal hygiene, not to even mention the rumors of them “hooking up” all over the place.

I am MORTIFIED that THIS is the image we are presenting to the world.

[MinuteGal]

I could barely watch the men's individuals in skating last night. In fact, I found myself clicking continually over to another channel which was showing an interesting program.

ALL the skaters stunk, no stamina, no grace, no fluidity, no creativity at all, just posturing and fluttering arms, stumbling and falling...and worst of all, consistently terrible music.

The quadruple is the new god...an entire routine is measured by it...it's a freakish, gymnastic stunt and has little if anything to do with true figure skating.

To paraphrase Hamlet...."to quadruple or not to quadruple, that is the only question".

Leni

[jch10]

This IS the face of America, I am sad to say. The clean-cut sharp looking American is no more.....or very rare anyway.