XX Olympic Winter Games

[Ghoulish Delight]

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.