{"id":2946,"date":"2004-08-23T23:49:34","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T06:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/23\/bye-bye-gymnastics\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T23:24:54","slug":"bye-bye-gymnastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/23\/bye-bye-gymnastics\/","title":{"rendered":"bye bye gymnastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I&#8217;d say this but I am *so* glad gymnastics is over in the Olympics. I don&#8217;t want to get into it here (because I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m just going to get all riled up) so let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;m feeling disillusioned by the whole Men&#8217;s All Around controversy, all the #@!$ protests, and the judging errors. Artistic gymnastics is my favorite sport and it&#8217;s such a shame to see what&#8217;s happened at the games so far. \ud83d\ude41 I think we&#8217;ll definitely see a huge change in the judging system as well as the Code of Points for this upcoming quadrennium.<\/p>\n<p>On to more positive thoughts and a final wrap-up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Marian Dragulescu is my new gymnastics boyfriend. He&#8217;s such a cutie. I still can&#8217;t get over his fantastic first vault in event finals. WOW.<\/p>\n<p>But I will never ever forget my very first gymnastics boyfriend Alexei Nemov. I love him, I love what he&#8217;s done for the sport, for what he&#8217;s achieved and for never failing to take off his shirt during the champion&#8217;s gala. It&#8217;s too bad he won&#8217;t have the chance to do that again in Athens. Heh.<\/p>\n<p>I want to give Paul Hamm a HUGE hug.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never paid much attention to Anna Pavlova&#8217;s gymnastics but she really shined in this Olympics. I *so* wanted her to medal in the All Around but I&#8217;m glad she leaves with her bronze on vault. I hope to see her in competition again.<\/p>\n<p>Catalina Ponor rocks. I just love her beam routine &#8212; she&#8217;s so effortless and graceful. It&#8217;s so great to see her take home 2 gold medals.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, I&#8217;m very, very happy for Courtney K, Carly, Terin and Annia for their individual medals. \ud83d\ude42 Go Team USA!<\/p>\n<p>Phew. I swear, no more gymnastics talk here until next year&#8217;s Worlds. November 2005, I think. You&#8217;re all safe for an entire year. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I&#8217;d say this but I am *so* glad gymnastics is over in the Olympics. I don&#8217;t want to get into it here (because I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m just going to get all riled up) so let&#8217;s just say &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/23\/bye-bye-gymnastics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[135,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}