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Um, Tanya Harding anyone? She made skatelaces famous! (or is that infamous?)
As the only night of Olympics coverage I watched, I must say it was terriby disappointing. The Japanese skater who won gold (is it Arakawa?) did so only by not falling on her face. She was generally graceful and pleasant and professional and poised, but would not have come near a gold CD during an Olympics where the top skaters didn't fudge their programs.
That said, Cohen's skating is so artistically beautiful and elegant that I'm really glad she had the true professionalism to put so much moxie into her program after falling twice. I somehow consider it more of a feat to pull off a beautiful performance in the face of failure than to just pull off a beautiful performance without flaw. A silver medal richly deserved, imo.
And yes, Dick Button is a buttwad. Hahaha, I hope he lived all the scorn imaginable by virtue of having that name (thanks for pointing that out, Wendybeth). Someone should radio broadcast a fitting musical accompaniment timed to the network tv coverage. If I didn't have to listen to the beyond-lame commentators, I might just start watching the Olympics again.
I think one of the main reasons I want to go to Vancouver in four years is so that I can see the Olympics without the agony of watching the lame-tard TV coverage.
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