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[heather]

KIM YU-NA IS MY HERO

WAS THAT NOT THE BEST LADIES' SKATING FINAL YOU HAVE EVER SEEN

(IT WAS)

Joannie is a hero too, and we will see Marai in Sochi, ohyeah.

I have thoughts about British TV that I WILL post later today, But for now.

Comments

[florahart]

I felt bad for Mao Asada being so clearly totally not okay with second place--I mean, grumpy at her for not being all *\o/* I skated really well!! (which she did) and also grumpy at the folks putting pressure on her over it. The medals ceremony was really weird because they were all kind of in tears, all for entirely different reasons--disappointment/joy/grief.

Also, this confounded me: I think the commentators said Kim Yu-Na and Mao Asada; I think the announcers on the loudspeaker at the rink (what I could hear in the background anyway) said Yu-Na Kim and Mao Asada. I think both Korean and Japanese convention puts the family name first, so, bzuh? I suppose maybe this has to do with how each of them signed up for whatever/introduced self (by which convention) to whom.

In other news, I would like Mr. Plushenko to take lessons from Mirai in "how to be super-pleased for your performance even though you didn't get the shiny you totally wanted." Because she was freakin' adorable with her fourth place glee.

[peri_peteia]

The announcer actually calls her Yeon-Ah Kim which is the proper Korean pronunciation of her name, just to make it weirdly arbitrary. She generally goes by Yuna Kim and as such probably puts that on her forms (much like Nastia Liukin puts that on her forms and so is never announced as Anastasia Liukin), but is formally called Kim Yu-Na by most commentators, etc.

[florahart]

Oh, I basically agree, which is why I'm not saying, wow, what a sourpuss. I get that the pressure was unreal, and that's just so not okay--sort of like the ridiculous commentating on the first couple days of everything, in which NBC folks said roughly every five minutes, and more often than that every time a Canadian was competing present in any capacity, Now remember, Canada has never won a gold medal on home soil, as if anyone watching could possibly have forgotten in the last three seconds, and as if anyone on the Canadian team wasn't TOTALLY AWARE THANK YOU.

I hope that at least the people who know her can help her understand she totally rocked on her own. I'm one of those bleeding-heart types who basically wants every single person competing to wind up feeling good about it, even if it's in the sense of feeling as though zie can positively address whatever went wrong.

[heather]

I felt really bad for Mao; on the one hand, she broke world records of her own last night and it was AWESOME, but she can't really enjoy it because of whatever pressure's been put on her. It didn't feel as sore-losery as Plushenko; I just felt sad. Because she accomplished SO much in her own right.

Mirai is the most adorable thing ever; I'm so happy for her. :D :D :D And she knows, man. This might have been the first year in ages that an American woman didn't medal in this event but she's the future of American ice skating and it's really only up from here. *\o/*