Sports geekery

[oyceter]

*points to subject* I bet those are two words you never expected to see together on my LJ ;).

But yes.... squigglesquiggleYAYsquee!!!!! OLYMPICS!!!!

Predictions:

1. Evgeny Plushenko will win, or else I will yell at the TV an awful lot.

2. Johnny Weir and Brian Joubert will have horrible costumes.

3. I will yell at the commentators all the time.

4. I will have the same not-very-deep thoughts about nationalism and country pride and competition that I do every time I watch the Olympics.

5. I will either cheer loudly when "Taipei China" enters while yelling at China about the name change, or pout when Taiwan isn't in the Olympics, despite fully realizing that it is a subtropical island and probably doesn't participate much in winter sports at all.

6. I will cheer for the Chinese ice skaters and then feel bad for cheering for China and then feel worse for thinking nationalistically.

7. I will find random sports that I didn't know existed (biathlon?).

8. I will get caught up in totally random sports that I usually care nothing about, just because.

9. I will cheer for all the underdog countries. (Sadly, my brain just collapsed on me and I forgot the word "underdog." I knew it was "under-animal," but kept defaulting to "underduck" for some odd reason. Possibly I was inspired by the dead duck wine bottle holder that my dad has.)

10. I am entirely too fond of numbered lists.

Comments

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Awww, hey, don't be dissing my girl Sasha....I really, really don't think she's going to win, tho, or maybe even medal. The European field looks v strong, the American field did pretty terribly at our national championships and Slutskaya is like a Panzer tank at this point. She's just going to mow everyone down. -- I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians sweep all four skating categories, actually....I bet it'll go Slutskaya-Kwan-Other-Cohen, or maybe Slutskaya-Other-Kwan-Cohen.

[oyceter]

I don't mind her, I just don't think she's going to win, just because she seems to have the tendency to choke under pressure.. but then, she did do pretty well in Nationals. Hrm.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she does tend to pull ahead in the short and then blow it in the long, altho she was steadier this year. Then again esp at the Nationals the field was pretty weak and there was no Michelle. I think Slutskaya's going to stomp everyone.