Okay, I must admit, I don’t fully get the new figure skating scoring system (I’m going to have to start watching the one hour show that they’re showing each evening on USA). Teams that I thought were boring, at best, are doing much better than teams that I thought did great.
Of course, I’m biased. Your hand touches down when you’re landing a jump? Minus 50 points. You fall on your rear? No medal for you. Trip on a toe pick? A one year suspension.
Dick Buttons is having a cow over the fact that none of the pair skaters know how to do a proper sit spin. Something about that makes me laugh.
Americans Rena Inoue and John Baldwin landed the first throw triple Axel in international skating. I thought they did a great job, but the end of the short program found them in sixth with 61.27 points.
The top three skating pairs going into the long program are Russia’s Tatyana Totmiyanina and Maxim Marinin, China’s Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, and Russians Maria Petrova and Aleksei Tikhonov.
the olympics are boring. the commercials are endless. the tv coverage, as usual is terrible, boring human interest story add nauseaum.
Is it Olympics, in general, that you object to— or just these Olympics? Because I can’t imagine watching them, reading a blog about them, and taking the time to comment on a blog about them if I was displeased. I think I’d just turn off the t.v. and go out for a walk.
Hiya, does anyone know what the german pair Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy skated to?
You can find out about this pair’s music choices here. The song they skated to last night is an untitled song by Jean Michel Jarre.
Actually, it would be really nice if there was a list of all the program songs somewhere. It drives me crazy when I can’t look up a piece I think I recognize, and there are others i just love to hear another time.