Figure Skating at the J.O.'s

So, Figure Skating…à la français

As all of you are well aware, the Olympics started last week and being the crazy fan I am, I have been following as much of it as possible, skating particularly. I love the sport, but I find myself even more amused by the commentators than the skaters themselves. There is this old man with curly grey hair commentating alongside former French skater Philippe Candeloro and they crack me up. For instance, last night when the French Champion Brian Joubert went out to skate, they talked to him as he went along with encouragement (of course, only we the television spectators could hear what they said). So, at the beginning they say to him…Go Brian, this is your chance, take it! And, here comes the quad…oh la la, that was fantastique! :P Or, during the pair competition when the Chinese lady Zhang fell down, stopping their program in the middle to recover and then go back out after walking the injury off, they skated flawlessly…at the end, they were yelling…What strength, what humanity, what wonder we have seen on this ice tonight.. They are so passionate and get right into it. But the best part is, I now no longer can be called weird because they talk the exact same way I do when watching skating…lol, too bad I don’t get paid for it or get to wear the cool earphones or get to interview the skaters (more just so I can meet them all (a) than to really interview them). HAHAHA, maybe I should become a figure skating newscaster….:S

But alas, the results…my poor Canadian men had a rough start but hopefully they will come back strong even if they don’t get a medal I would like to see them have a good long program – well I don’t really care about Sandhu, its more Buttle…but still to be patriotic, I will cheer for them both. And I can’t wait to see Brian Joubert’s performance because it is Riverdance and he worked on it with Shae-Lynn Bourne!! YIPEE! And the Swiss, Stephen Lambiel is in 3rd (he’s cool), the American Johnny Weir in 2nd (he’s ok), and the Russian Evgeny Plushenko is in 1st (he is an annoying baby, but will probably win, short of some major disaster on his part…oh well, hopefully he will retire after so I don’t have to watch him anymore once these Olympics are over)