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?"
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Wed, Aug. 18th, 2004 07:28 am (UTC)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?"