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[oyceter]

Whoo!!! Japan got a gold!! In the Olympics! And yay for the US team too!

It must be very annoying watching the Olympics with me because I talk the entire way through. I like to pretend that the people on TV can actually hear me (shh, don't burst my bubble).

I was very annoyed when the coverage showed Japan on only two rotations. I personally would like to see all the rotations of everyone there, but given time constraints, I would like to see the full routine of the winning country!

And I was happy because Blaine Wilson's been in three Olympics, and he finally got a medal, and I still remember seeing him back in Atlanta on TV.

Guh. High bar and releases and people who look like they're flying. ^_^.

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[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

d00d, I never in 12 million years thought I would be interested in the pommel. But I'm sitting there watching Japan and China fly around the pommel with my mouth open...."wow"....the US team didn't do half as well IMO. But I'm obviously just a big "Pretty! Look at the pretty!" spectator.

Also: why do all the male gymnasts have great big shoulders and huge arms and look generally healthy and well-fed, and all the female gymnasts are tiny and have no muscle and it looks like no bone mass either and I'd be surprised if one of them tops 100 lbs? Boo.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

One word: rings.

[oyceter]

Oh I know! I've never been interested in the pommel before, but man, those guys' legs go way up!

I think at one point I was yelling, "Look, his muscles are as big as his head!" The girls... the Russian girl, Svetlana Khorkina, is soooo skinny! Some of the older American female gymnasts look ok, but the Chinese ones are scarily skinny.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

I know! I was like "the scissors thing! and the flying wossname thing! OMG! wheee!" Virtual, no no, vicarious athleticism...

The little girl gymnasts are, indeed, scary, although I don't think they're quite as scary as the team that won the gold (where Kerri Struggs went ahead and crushed her ankle even though they did not need the points to win. Scary, how programmed they are). I'm rooting for the grrl sponsored by Pamela Anderson, wossname, Mohini Bhardwaj, not only because she has things like boobs and hips and actually looks graceful, she is Not that I begrudge 16-year-olds being 16, but it's still always a nasty jolt to hear a 30-year-old athelete referred to as "old"....

The commentators are driving me BUGGY, though. And I thought we'd see more of Athens. Security precautions preventing a lot of scenic taping maybe?

[oyceter]

Ooo, I'm rooting for Mohini too! The whole age thing, not just in gymnastics, but in all the sports, sort of shocks me. I sit and think, wow, I'm 23. There are people younger than me sitting around winning medals and stuff. The thing that was really scary was realizing that Michael Phelps was younger than my little sister.

NBC's entire coverage is sort of annoying me -- I don't want to see interviews with the athletes, or their life stories, or whatnot! I just want to see the athletics!

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and Michael Phelps was what, FIFTEEN in his first Olympics? I mean yee-haw going for the gold and all that, and good on him if he actually enjoys it, but it reminds me of Searching for Bobby Fischer -- you have these little prodigies who know how to do one thing perfectly, and for it they give up their lives. Is it really worth it? Only they can say (and during Very Special Interviews, they usually say it is). I'd rather see older and more well-seasoned atheletes than tiny little atheletes doing stuff no one older can equal in exchange for their childhoods.

Then again I read Pretty Girls in Little Boxes too many times....

oh d00d, NBC totally lost me and I went to CBUT, the Canadian affiliate here. Aaaagh.

[oyceter]

Dude, yeah. I mean, it's incredibly cool that they're that good, but it sort of makes you wonder about afterward. Isn't it weird realizing you've hit the height of your fame when you were only 20-something? What does one do after that?

But, oh, they're so gorgeous when they do it well -- my jaw was on the floor for half of the gymnastics just because for a few seconds there, it looked like those women could fly.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Isn't it weird realizing you've hit the height of your fame when you were only 20-something

Not only that, but I wonder how many of them are going to have serious problems later in life because of the so-called female athlete triad. Amenorrhea is a serious problem for most high-level female athletes, which points to something rotten right there.

a few seconds there, it looked like those women could fly

I didn't get that feeling so much from the women as I did from the men's competition -- with a lot of the women, I was just sort of horrified at the shape of their bodies, like Svetlana Khorkhina. She was pretty incredible on the uneven bars, but I'm sitting there thinking, "What does she get if they medal? A stalk of celery? a baby carrot?"

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There are people who don't talk through the Olympics?

[oyceter]

Apparently my boyfriend is one of them =(.