February 17, 2010 - 8:28 am
And oops! She fell on her really nice skating butt! Pairs skating. Once one person falls, it’s like Dominoes - everybody starts falling.
The real problem is that I’ve been watching the Olympics for years and I still can’t tell the difference between a Triple Lutz and a Triple Salko, a Triple Axle and a Triple Toe Loop, but I know the lingo…
She stuck that one…
She barely managed to hold on…
He over-rotated…
Look at the height on that quad…
He needed that quad triple after failing on that triple double…
Look at the disappointment on …..’s face…..
The skaters like to pull out all the tearjerkers from the sixties and seventies to skate to. Love Story. The Way We Were, and by the way, that sailor suit kinda sucked. I’d like to see them skate to the music from Porgy and Bess or Westside Story, you know, give me a rumble between the Jets and the Sharks. Now that would move me and you could fit in lots of triple flips and the costumes wouldn’t look as if they’d been designed by Cirque du Soleil.
My favorite all time tragic skating pair? Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov. Goddamn, they were beautiful and their love story was one for the ages. So sad he died at the age of twenty-eight of a massive heart attack.
In other news: WATCH!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw
Emily (MacInnes) Somers, created, directed and choreographed this in Portland last week for her Medline glove division as a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness. This was all her idea to help promote their new pink gloves.
When the video gets 1 million hits, Medline will be making a huge contribution to the hospital, as well as offering free mammograms for the community. Please check it out. It’s an easy and great way to donate to a wonderful cause, and who hasn’t been touched by breast cancer?
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