Since my last post about the ladies freeskate was dominated by 'ugh! judging!' woes, I still have to mention the skating itself! I have to say, I was heartily impressed with all the ladies in the free! Even the girls who had falls still brought their A game and delivered fantastic performances. ( A review of the great ladies freeskate! )

The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are officially over, and it's always a mixture of happy and sad. We really haven't had any truly contentious results in figure skating at the Olympics in quite a while, so the final standings in the ladies event was something of a shock, and it wasn't the note that I would have preferred to end Olympic skating on. ( Read more... )

On a totally random note, while watching ABC World News just now, I found out there's a guy who has recreated Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Marriage Portrait entirely in Legos. What mind-blowing geekery. The world is truly full of amazing things ( Read more... )

Well, sometimes things don't go your way. Even the most talented people in the world can have bad days, and sometimes they have them at the Olympics. ( In which I get extremely emotional over Patrick Chan and Jeremy Abbott. But they're my favorites, and it's the Olympics, so I can't help it! )

Okay, now my laptop is working again, I can make my obligatory Olympic Figure Skating Squee Posts! (Why don't I have a Davis & White icon anymore? More importantly, why does no one seem to make figure skating icons on LJ anymore? It's the Olympics! Icon it, peeps ( Read more... )

It's been over a week since it ended, and now I've had some time to digest the whole experience and let the emotions settle, I think I can say with certainty that this was the one of the best Olympics ever. Especially after Torino was a spectacular disappointment on almost every level, the awesomeness of Vancouver will stick with me for a long time ( Read more... )

It's well and truly over at last, and I'm still a little sad, but I think I'm over the hump with the horrible withdrawal from the two week long skating high. The day after it ended I was so twitchy and irritable all day, I couldn't think of ANYTHING but skating. Honest to goodness, even COSTUMING seemed dull and pointless! But I'm trying to focus ( Read more... )

Well, today is the last day of figure skating at the Olympics, the Champions Gala is tonight! I'm a little sad! *sniffle* But it'll be nice to just sit back and watch all the awesome medalists just skate, without being totally nervous and worried about them like when they're competing!

OMFG YAY!!! VIRTUE & MOIR! DAVIS & WHITE! GOLD AND SILVER!!!! I knew they would, because they're the best teams in the world, but still, when it actually happens, it's the awesomest thing EVER. And how cute were they all? For those who don't know, Davis & White and Virtue & Moir share the same coaches and are very good friends, and it was just ( Read more... )

OMG how happy am I about the figure skating? The ice dance final is tonight, and I'm so excited, I've been looking forward to the ice dance most of all because of Davis & White and Virtue & Moir. (The gorgeous sylph-like creatures you see in my icon are in fact Davis & White!) Ice Dance is enjoying the most wonderful Renaissance at the moment, ( Read more... )