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mosca

So apparently there's also skiing or something?

Feb 17, 2010 00:50

With all of the Olympic skating preview posts, I haven't had time to give my actual reactions to the Games. So here they are.

( There are no spoilers in sports, but there is a West Coast tape delay. )

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queen_of_goat February 17 2010, 06:31:37 UTC

I've really been enjoying your skating posts. They helped me work out better ways to explain stuff to my sister, not that she was actually interested ( ... )

mosca February 17 2010, 07:13:27 UTC

Glad you're enjoying them!

Back when I was a skater, I wanted to be Paul Wylie. I think that's why I'm such a big Abbott fan - Jeremy's got quite a lot of Paul in him.

There used to be something endearing about Plushenko, but he's lost touch with reality. The NBC commentators said something about how in '06, the other skaters all conceded the gold to him, but this time they all kind of resent him. But Plushy hasn't gotten the memo.

I didn't say Johnny was underscored! I'm not sure he was. From the detailed score breakdown, it looks like he made a takeoff error on one of his jumps and lost about 3 points on it. Without that error, he would have scored an 85 and been in 4th place, which matches what I saw.

queen_of_goat February 17 2010, 07:33:38 UTC

You're right, that was the comment above me, not you. I thought it looked like a 4th or 5th performance so that works out with the detailed breakdown. Where did you see that by the way?

I think Paul has mentored Jeremy Abbott and I definitely see the Paul in him. I once saw Paul in his car in Boston when I was in high school on a field trip. I got a huge chunk of our school bus to yell, "We love you, Paul!" out the windows. He seemed very embarrassed but waved and smiled. I may never have seen him skate live, but I'll always have that.

All in all it was a pretty great night of skating.

mosca February 17 2010, 18:09:22 UTC

NBColympics.com gives real-time scores and rankings. Go here while the competition is in progress and it will automatically update. After an event, click on the event name and it'll give you details for each skater.

Wylie has definitely mentored Abbott, but I think USFSA made the match because Abbott has so much in common with Wylie both on and off the ice.

My parents took me to Stars on Ice a bunch of times when I was a kid, and I saw Wylie skate there. But your sighting way beats that.

queen_of_goat February 18 2010, 07:58:03 UTC

Thanks for the link! I had no idea NBC was doing that.

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