Yay! Women’s gymnastics is under way! I am, of course, extremely partial to the US team and I’m happy they had a decent showing to finish second in the prelims.<\/p>\n
I have to say that I was so impressed by Mo — she was the rock of the team. I’m so happy that she’s performing well and will get a chance to win an individual medal in the Floor Exercise final. She’s so awesome. Now, on the complete other side of the spectrum, I feel so awful for Courtney McCool. She missed major connections in her beam routine and stepped out of bounds on the floor — so uncharacteristic of her. She’s usually such a confident and clean gymnast. But I guess once the nerves set in after her first mistake, she couldn’t quite recover. It’s too bad that the coaches left her off the roster for the team finals, but I understand that they can’t take the risk (especially with this no margin for error 6-3-3 format, which I don’t like at all but that’s another rant for another time). It’s really sad to think that her Olympics experience is over.<\/p>\n
Random women’s gym stuff: Someone please take the glitter and eyeliner away from Terin Humphrey! She’s such a beautiful gymnast but her makeup is seriously overwhelming. (And this coming from a makeup fiend).<\/p>\n I love the Romanians on beam (Catalina Ponor — wow!) and the Chinese on bars (their swing and huge release moves are unbelievable).<\/p>\n It’s really sad to see the Russians (men and women) doing so poorly as a team. They used to be the powerhouses of the sport and now I don’t think they even have a chance at winning a medal.<\/p>\n Stuff on today’s competitions: Marian Dragalescu’s vault was INSANE.<\/p>\n Why oh why are they not showing Sexy Alexei Nemov<\/a>?! He’s my Russian boyfriend!<\/p>\n Paul Hamm has the weirdest voice.<\/p>\n It’s also really disappointing to see all the empty seats during gymnastics. In the past 3 summer games (the ones that I can actually remember watching), the arena has been jam-packed with people. If I could head over to Athens right now, I totally would.<\/p>\n Very happy for Natalie Coughlin and her gold in the 100m backstroke! I was a senior at Cal<\/a> when she was a freshman and I remember reading about her in the Daily Cal — probably when she won NCAA Swimmer of the Year. Anyway, just happy to see a fellow Bear get a win in the Olympics. Oh, and does anyone think she looks a little like Bethany Joy Lenz? Just me? Ok.<\/p>\n Women’s team final tomorrow! Expect more exciting Olympics comments from me, heh.<\/p>\n One more thing — I’ve enjoyed seeing all the promos for the new and returning NBC shows. I have to remember to do a blog about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yay! Women’s gymnastics is under way! I am, of course, extremely partial to the US team and I’m happy they had a decent showing to finish second in the prelims. I have to say that I was so impressed by … Continue reading
\nCarly Patterson’s beam routine<\/a> ROCKED — she was solid and hit all of her big skills. Check out the link if you want to download her routine. I’m really hoping she medals in the All-Around.<\/p>\n
\n*So* excited for the US men’s gymnastics team and their silver medal! And of course the Japanese team on their gold! \ud83d\ude00 I just wish that NBC had shown more of the Japanese men’s routines. They won the gold medal and they were only shown on 2 events. Boo.<\/p>\n