( men's figure skating short program )

What is the deal with there being a team figure skating event? What is the deal with there being a whole evening's worth of sports the day before the opening ceremonies? What is the deal with the former beginning during the later, causing me to miss the 2014 Olympic début of my beloved Evgeni Plushenko???

Don't worry, though, I found a sketchy cam ( Read more... )

Over in the land of flailing and gifs and namesmushes (whatever, you pretty much have to use them because you can't use tags with /s on tumblr, you just have to roll with things like Mustamova), my London 2012 OTP has blossomed into a fully-fledged fandom. Two weeks ago I was plaintively demanding Viktoria Komova/Aliya Mustafina h/c fic, and now my ( Read more... )

It took some doing, but we finally got the evil cable leviathan to disgorge our login information so we can stream NBC's fabled live feeds. The first thing I tuned in to live was the contested end of the men's gymnastics team final. The second thing I tuned in to live was Korean fencer Shin A Lam's protest/sit-in. You do not want me watching your ( Read more... )

I've always loved the Olympics; like, 98% of the time it is fairly difficult to interest me in sports for longer than five minutes at a stretch, but during the Olympics I want to follow them all. Even, or perhaps especially, if I know nothing about them otherwise:

[...] as I now take pleasure in understanding the work of televised snooker players ( Read more... )

I cannot even wait for the men's free skate tonight! Personally, I'm rooting for Plushy to win, Johnny to flip off the judges, and Evan Lysacek to wash his goddamn hairGod, I wonder how many hours of Olympics coverage I've watched in the last 18 years. I even feel sort of warm and fuzzy about neverending Visa McCoke commercials and Bob ( Read more... )

It's official: the second half of my figure skating OTP will be skating at the Olympics!

... oh God, that means it's been four years since Torino, doesn't it. Eep.

Apparently Bob Costas and the rest of the folks at NBC are all huge Shani Davis/Chad Hedrick shippers, to judge by their ongoing fuss about everything they do or don't say or do to each other. Too bad Shani Davis/Enrico Fabris is totally canon! Are they blind? Did they not see the way Davis kept running his hands through Fabris's hair at every ( Read more... )

Come on, people! Where is the 2006 Winter Olympics slash? I seem to recall that in 2004 I couldn't scroll down five entries without running across someone shipping Michael Phelps and Ian Thorpe, and yet I have only found two (2) pieces of Evgeny Plushenko/Johnny Weir. This is unacceptable.

Only slightly relatedly, I was looking at all the old ( Read more... )

Starbucks is discontinuing their Chantico drinking chocolate, otherwise known as an orgasm in a shot glass. I am exceedingly displeased. And I don't even go out of my way to eat chocolate ordinarily, but I've been mainlining these things for about a year now ( Read more... )