<p>Maybe they should have an average Joe judge who gives feedback. “Ya know that move where her face was buried in his crotch and he was holding her by the big toe and then he threw her over his head into the audience - don’t do that again.”</p>
<p>Yeah ^^^ - perhaps Ellen could fit this into her schedule as well!!!</p>
<p>LOL, cartera45 - I nominate you. I’ll be the one who tells the ice dancer guys to cut their hair.</p>
<p>I can’t. I’m afraid of Johnny Weir.</p>
<p>I wanted to share with you this:</p>
<p>[Canadian</a> curler is five months pregnant - Fourth-Place Medal](<a href=“Sports News, Scores, Fantasy Games - Yahoo Sports”>Sports News, Scores, Fantasy Games - Yahoo Sports)</p>
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<p>^I saw that. She’s an alternate though, so she likely won’t play. That’s still incredible though, doing all that rigorous practice while pregnant.</p>
<p>^There can’t be too many Olympic sports where one can compete while being 5 months pregnant. My S loves to watch curling (I don’t really get it) and spent hours watching it one Sunday during last Olympics because he wanted to understand the rules & strategy.</p>
<p>We met a family from Sweden last year and learned a term my fellow CC parents should find interesting–“Curling Mother”. Akin to “Stage Mother” or perhaps “Helicopter Parent”, where a parent tries to go before their child and smooth out any potential bumps in their path. I love the visual of this term, you can just imagine those sweepers so carefully tending the trajectory of the curling stones.</p>
<p>I too hate the skate grabbing. It’s just ugly. And the pairs spins, too. There must be some way where the two skaters can spin together and look smooth and graceful. Only one of the pairs-- I think the Germans-- managed a spin that was attractive. </p>
<p>And <em>what</em> is with the lifts where the women spin around to display their crotch? Why? Can’t they keep their legs together, or aim their crotch up at the ceiling or down to the ice or somewhere else but right in my eyes?</p>
<p>Why can’t they show the more popular events until after 10 PM? I don’t want to have to stay up til midnight to watch figure skating!</p>
<p>I loved the Chinese pair that won silver; I thought they were technically good but also much more artistic than the other two Chinese pairs. And I loved the Germans’ short but thought they weren’t superb in the free skate, so I think bronze was appropriate. As a Russian immigrant, I’m a little disappointed in the pretty awful Russian performance last night; after the short, I really thought that the pair with the Japanese woman had a solid shot at bronze, but all those falls were so terrible.</p>
<p>On a happier note, I really enjoyed watching snowboard cross! I’d never heard of it before these Olympics, but it’s actually really cool.</p>
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<p>I think the figure skating was being shown more or less live. I had the results site up and the results were not posted until seconds before I saw them on the screen.</p>
<p>Johnny Weir is my favorite, and I will be rooting for him!</p>
<p>Johnny Weir is the skater we all love to watch (but hate to admit it!!). Even those who say they can’t stand him will be watching!</p>
<p>My Ds re obsessed with Evan. He is pretty handsome.</p>
<p>Oh, I love Johnny Weir and can’t wait to see what he has in store. Skating needs Johnny Weir. BUT, I would not like to sit in judgment of Johnny Weir.</p>
<p>It went late last night since in the free skate they put the flights in the reverse order of how they placed in the short program.</p>
<p>In the pairs, the Chinese that eventually won drew first overall, and the stands were not half full yet. We went to the ladies short at Salt Lake, and it was amazing how people showed up for the popular skaters (in that year Michelle Kwan & Sarah Hughes), and then got up and left right after.</p>
<p>So tonight they will have the mens short program performances in the order that they drew. Plushenko is pretty early, so he will be first on TV. Johnny is the first American, and he is in the fifth flight, right after Patrick Chan (now that should be interesting). Jeremy and Evan are in the next flight, right after each other:</p>
<p>[Figure</a> Skating - Men’s Results | 2010 Winter Olympics | NBC Olympics](<a href=“http://www.nbcolympics.com/figure-skating/resultsandschedules/event=FSM010000/index.html]Figure”>http://www.nbcolympics.com/figure-skating/resultsandschedules/event=FSM010000/index.html)</p>
<p>We are really enjoying watching this Olympics on our brand new HD TV. The picture is amazing-I resisted getting a new TV since our old one was perfectly fine (it recently died), but now I see what the big deal is.</p>
<p>A couple of little factoids from that link, about Johnny Weir:</p>
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<p>If he’s any good, maybe we’ll get to see him again as a Project Runway contestant in a few years. He’d fit right in.</p>
<p>Donna, if he wind the gold, he might not even need to win the Project Runway to launch his line! But he definitely has a lot of competition among his teammates, and I would not discount the old man yet.</p>
<p>Anyone watching Team USA beat Switzerland? 3-1 Now. I enjoy Olympic hockey–all the speed & finesse of the NHL, but with less violence.</p>
<p>To be honest, I also appreciate the fact that after 60+ years of gay male skaters in the US doing everything possible to pretend to be straight, all the way back to Dick Button and before (“In the Ramble? Me? I was just taking a walk!”), at least Johnny Weir doesn’t deny it, and says it’s nobody’s business, and doesn’t let concerns about homophobia stop him from being his flamboyant and definitely not-butch self.</p>