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[oyceter]

The Olympics are so on crack. And by Olympics, I mean the entire men's gymnastics competition. To think I used to think men's gymnastics was the more boring cousin to women's gymnastics.

I still *heart* Aleksei Nemov, who was a crush item way back in 1996.

I need to catch up on comments and entries, but am still sort of stressing about upcoming interviews, sigh, sigh.

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[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

The parallel bars and the high bar? Yeah, that was....that was so bizarre. And poor Paul Hamm, having to wait and wait while the crowd screamed at the judges. And poor Morgan Hamm, who got shut out of a medal during a tiebreaker. And what was the diff between gold and silver in the women's for one floor exercise -- twelve thousandths of a point? That just breaks my heart. Just give them two bloody gold medals at that point.

Sports I enjoyed thoroughly and thought I wouldn't: men's 400m rowing (I think that was it) where the US just WHOMPED the competition, and beach volleyball.

Ian Thorpe, yum.

[oyceter]

So weird! "And the next score is.... 9.762! Again!" I did think that the Japanese guy should have gotten gold though. Ah well.

I felt really bad for Paul Hamm -- that must be the worst environment ever, but he pulled it off really well ^_^. Hee, but I was sort of pleased for Nemov too, because those releases! So cool! And he was pretty gracious about the whole thing, thankfully.

[rahael.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Nemov. Is he back? Really. I may have to tune in or something

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

They robbed Aleksei Nemov of a medal and I can't understand WHY ... Poor guy! He was, however, unbelievably gracious and yes, I still lurve him. Also, Yuri Massina was pretty dang amazing himself, so I felt like he did deserve his gold medal.

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Err, Cassina. I'm an eejit ;) But he was still fabulous!

[oyceter]

He was in the finals for the high bar, but I haven't seen him in anything else, sadly =(. But he had a nice high bar routine ^_^.

[oyceter]

Sigh... Nemov did have an awesome routine ^_^. Though, yeah, the Italian guy's releases were so cool!!

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

I watched it on NBC again just cause the commentators amused me, and they sounded like they were going to DIE. One guy was reduced to shouting "Oh, no, no!" when the scores came up. And poor Paul Hamm -- talk about having to just put what happened out of your mind and go on with your routine -- Nemov was beautifully gracious, yeah. That seemed much more a case of "I came, I did my best, I know it was my best, medal whatever" -- which is amazing, cause, you know, Olympics.

[oyceter]

Hee I know! Although that was one of the times I agreed with them, so I was yelling at the TV too ;).

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Olympic judges! On the very special Olympic crack! No, you, the viewers at home, can't have any! We just get to watch the results....

[oyceter]

LOL!