Oh yeah, Cheek. That was awesome.

Flash forward to the long program, where of the same couple he says, "They've got a lot of maturity..."

CP and I were rolling our eyes at the commentators for figure skating a lot. I swear, if I heard one more time about how horrible someone's entry into the death spiral was...

Dick Button seems to pick one or two moves to be obsessed about and they usually involve the ass. He's an ass man all the way.

Sandra us a choreographer and I like her attention to the choreography elements. She's a much better commentator, IMHO. My favorite it Scott Hamilton. His enthusiasm is infectious and I really like his commentary. I know he was diagnosed with a brain tumor recently but I'm not sure if that it the reason he is not around. Or, maybe I just don't watch enough TV.

He (Hamilton) has been demoted to "Skating with Celebreties". I'm sure he's thrilled about that.

Heh, American figure skating champion, Johnny Weir was wearing a Micky sweater while warming up for his short program.

Turin/Torino
 

So NBC decided to go with the local pronounciation and spelling of the olympic location, "Torino" instead of the accepted anglicization of "Turin." Do you suppose other Angicized names will soon be dropped for their less familiar local names? Will we visit Firenza and Roma in the Future?

Hmmm...If an American Skater has respect for Russian culture, that's cool, but I think there's a better way to show that than to where a sweatshirt, during warmups, that says "CCCP".

I'm not that upset that an American skater wore a sweatshirt from another country (or former country), though I thought it to be odd when he is there representing the USA, but why one that says CCCP?

Sorry, but what's "CCCP?"

Oh, and I'd love it if we dropped the retarded anglicization of non-anglo place names. What an arrogant and stupid, not to mention anachronistic, practice!

Wow, has it really been that long that people don't remember this? CCCP is the cyrilic acronym for the country name "USSR" in the Russian language.

Anyone catch the combined downhill/slalom event yesterday? Major drama as Bode Miller was disqualified when his ski just barely missed one of the gates. He didn't realize it during the run, it was only caught on a replay. Just one of those things.

Meanwhile, American Ted Ligety was behind by over 3 seconds after the downhill run, but made up the difference and then some in his two slalom runs to take the gold by a convincing margin. The top slalom skier in the world missed a gate in his final run, which take a little bit away from the victory, but even before he missed that gate, he looked like he was going to loose the time to Ligety. It was a really excellent performance for him. So while a few American favorites have been faltering thus far, some longshots like Ligety and Cheek seem to be picking up the slack.