XX Olympic Winter Games

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Yeah, at first I was admiring her guts and tenacity, then the more I thought about it, I just kept landing on stupid. But, hey, she got a bronze.

Oh, that one. She was only 4 months out of surgery (don't recall her nationality). The Aussie that was 7 months out of surgery actually did blow her knee out again in quals. They kept showing it over and over, including the audio of her shrieking in agony.

What bugs me are the announcers that are just completely bashing what a particular athlete is doing.

This is why I'm absolutely loathing Dick Button right now. I don't know if NBC decided that to compete with American Idol they had to have one person be the Simonesque asshole, but it's really getting old.

It was bad enough when Dick was criticizing the hell out of the lower-rung competitors, while being a total appologist for the top 5 contenders (suddenly his comments would go from, "That was just a terrible example of that move" to, "A small bobble, but it can be overlooked" for the more well known skaters). But he crossed the line for me the other night when he said of one skater, "She needs to not just go to the gym to work out, but she need to think when she's there." Scott Hamilton must have shot him a look or something becuase he pathetically followed it with, "I hope that's not being unkind."