Watching the Women’s gymnastics All Around right now. I’ll be doing some running commentary since NBC insists on showing the meet one… rotation… at… a… time. <\/p>\n
Aahhh… Svetlana Khorkina. I just love her. She’s such a diva and makes no apologies for it. I still remember when she slapped her teammate in the Sydney Olympics for falling off an apparatus in the team competition. Oh man. *shakes head* The sport won’t be the same without her.<\/p>\n
Why in the world does NBC insist on putting those huge logos in the right hand corner of the screen?!? That thing is huge and very distracting. I don’t need to know RIGHT NOW during Courtney Kupets’s vault that swimming is coming up in 7 minutes. Grrr.<\/p>\n
Random — NBC is showing swimming now and Markus Rogan (won silver in the 200m backstroke) is CUTE. Evidence here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Anna Pavlova rocked that beam set. I’m pulling for her to medal.<\/p>\n Another amazing beam set from Carly. She is on fire.<\/p>\n Svetlana is way too thin. I’m scared she’s going to snap right in half when she lands a tumbling pass.<\/p>\n Love Courtney Kupets. Don’t like her floor routine. Which brings me to something one of the commentators (Elfi, I think) on the NBC coverage said… something about the floor choreography in this Olympics being some of the best. Is she crazy? Most female gymnasts now don’t even take any kind of dance training. It definitely shows and that’s part of what I dislike about the Code of Points for this quad. I guess I just remember the days of Lilia Podkopayeva (96 Olympic and World champion — one of my favorites), Svetlana Boguinskaya, and the old Soviet greats of the late 80s. Tangent, sorry.<\/p>\n Carly up on floor… OMG. Wheeee!!! YAY CARLY! \ud83d\ude42 What a great meet — very, very happy for her.<\/p>\n Wow, Svetlana is happy. Shocking.<\/p>\n So, so close for Anna Pavlova. It broke my heart to see her cry. I thought she had a great night. But I’m not surprised at the podium at all. Carly, Svetlana, and Zhang Nan were the same top 3 in 2003 Worlds (CP and SK switched, of course).<\/p>\n NBC is playing that I Believe I Can Fly<\/i> song in their ending montage. So cheesy.<\/p>\n No artistic gymnastics until Sunday night (event finals) so my blog should be gymnastics free until then. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Watching the Women’s gymnastics All Around right now. I’ll be doing some running commentary since NBC insists on showing the meet one… rotation… at… a… time. Aahhh… Svetlana Khorkina. I just love her. She’s such a diva and makes no … Continue reading