(seeing as this has aired, I'm going sans-spoilers)

I don't really get "superiority" from Bode. I get, "Who gives a crap about what people think of me?" And I respect him for that. He's not living up to some "role model" bs, he's not partying hard and pretending to me mr. clean-cut. He's being himself and skiing the best he can. Rock on.

FYI, we missed watching Shaun White's medal winning run, and I found it on youtube.com only hours after it had aired. I'll bet you can find nearly any video you want on there.

For me, it was his eyebrows. The looked so weird to me! Kinda like they were splooshed on with a giant black Magic Marker.

It looks like he had them plucked and dyed. You know they're grey, too.
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I think it was his make-up, too. Very, very white.

Considering it was her last Olympic performance that secured three American's chances at the Olympics instead of two, I had no problem with her being allowed to come to Torino. It's not an unusual occurance in fielding an Olympic figure skating team. I think evryone was hopefull that she could heal in time, and I applaud her for aknowledging that despite her efforts she can't.

There are some real jerks in the skating world, but I don't think Michelle Kwan is one of them.

OUCH!

Seriously. Ouch was definitely the word of the day with 2 falls in women's skiing, an American knocked unconcsious in a luge crash, and of course figure skating. Ouch.

Was it just me, or did the look on Tatiana Totmianina's face when they announced Xiang and Xiang's score say, "Damnit, no one's going to talk about our gold, all anyone's going to talk about is that bitch falling and winning silver. Bitch."

I think the women's snowboard judging gives way too much weight to "amplitude". The winning runs were certainly huge, but that's all they were. One of the medal runs had one 720, a 900 with no grab, an invert 540, and a that's it. Meanwhile, Hight, the 16 year old, did two 720s, a 540, and a 900 with a grab, all clean, and she ended up 5th, simply because she didn't go as big. Bleh. On the other hand, Kelly Clark's run was out of this world. She probably shouldn't have gone for that 900 at the bottom, but I'm glad she did, even though she didn't land it.

I think part of her look was her reliving the parts of her own fall that she can remember.

I like my version better.

Pairs skating is so dangerous. I've seen some really bad falls and they make me cringe every time I witness a lift or a throw.

I'm really sorry the Chinese couple didn't complete a quad in performance. I'd love to have seen that. But, her fall looked nasty! I can't believe they were able to complete their program and do it so beautifully.

I loved the piece they did about the Chinese coach. Going to your first Olympics without a coach never having been outside your country before, learning how to skate from pictures, being laughed at, coming in dead last........I think the definition of determiniation added a new example.

It was fun watching the half-pipe, but I know NOTHING about the sport. I felt like I was watching foreign television.

And the look on Cheek's face when he saw his first time was priceless!