Posted in Olympics, tagged alicia sacramone, chellsie memmel, nastia liukin, sandra izbasa, shawn johnson on August 21, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Closing thoughts on the women’s competition:
Applause and cheers to Sandra Izbasa for single-handedly saving face for Romanian gymnastics.
Here’s hoping that Russia can field a better team over the course of the next quadrennium. I wonder if this is the last that we will see of Anna Pavlova; Zamo and Yezhova Grebenkova have stated that they’re [...]
Posted in Olympics on August 20, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I won’t bother with spoliers, since it already aired.
BALANCE BEAM
1. Shawn Johnson
2. Nastia Liukin
3. Cheng Fei
Anna Pavlova should’ve gotten bronze. Poor Cheng will get a bit of flak for being overscored when it wasn’t her fault.
I hope Shawn’s mom is happy with this gold medal. She was carping about how the family had to take [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, tagged he kexin, nastia liukin, yang yilin on August 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Spoilers if you’re on the West Coast.
Giving
You
A
Little
Space
UNEVEN BARS
1. He Kexin
2. Nastia Liukin
3. Yang Yilin
I will not comment on the tie-breaker faff because everyone and their mom has discussed it. We haven’t had an Olympic tie in gymnastics since Amânar and Miloşovici tied for bronze in the all-around at the Atlanta Olympics, and we won’t [...]
Posted in Olympics, tagged alicia sacramone, cheng fei, hong un jong, nastia liukin, oksana chusovitina, sandra izbasa, shawn johnson on August 17, 2008 | 8 Comments »
SPOILERS. Don’t read if you want to watch NBC’s stupid broadcast.
You
have
been
warned!
No,
really.
Here
we
go…
VAULT:
1. Hong Un Jong
2. Oksana Chusovitina
3. Cheng Fei
Many people are saying Alicia was robbed. While I hoped Alicia would get a medal, I feel bad for Cheng.
Alicia was definitely not given the benefit of the doubt; whereas Cheng was because the Cheng vault is so [...]
Posted in Olympics, tagged nastia liukin, shawn johnson, yang yilin on August 15, 2008 | 20 Comments »
NASTIA!!!!
All hail Анастасия Валерьевна Люкина!!!!
And the legendary Larissa Latynina approves!!!
So Nastia became the 2008 Olympic all-around champion in hot pink. I would be more irritated, but whatever; Dudnik won medals in hot pink and so it must follow that it should happen again thanks to another Soviet. Speaking of which, apparently the QUEEN Khorkina saluted [...]
Posted in Olympics, tagged alicia sacramone on August 13, 2008 | 32 Comments »
Sure, she fell on balance beam.
Sure, she fell on floor exercise.
Sure, it looked like 2004 baby Alicia all over again.
But at least this time, she made it to the Olympics.
She’s come a long way, and despite everything, she should never look back.
A-Sac Forever.
[This blog is a proud supporter of Alicia Sacramone.]
Posted in Olympics, tagged cheng fei on August 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
China has done it.
Congratulations to Cheng Fei, maybe she won’t have such low self-esteem anymore.
Job well done to the USA ladies, although the result may not have been what they wanted. They were good enough for gold; China was just better. Silver is nothing to sneeze at; Shawn, Nastia, it’s time to get up and [...]
Posted in Olympics, tagged nastia liukin on August 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »
China’s going to win.
Let the Blame Game begin (Paul Ziert I’m looking at you…).
The only bright spot is that Nastia’s uneven bars score beat He’s and Yang’s on uneven bars. And ZOMG Nastia outscored Shawn on floor exercise?
Anna Pavlova had a disastrous floor exercise, putting the Russians (temporarily) behind the Romanians. I wonder what happened…?
Posted in Olympics on August 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So today’s/yesterday’s qualifications? Two words: Shock Horror.
I’m so f*cking disappointed. And sad. And disappointed. Did I say I was disappointed?
Things I HATED:
No floor finals for Alicia Sacramone. SANDRA IZBASA FOR 2008 OLYMPIC FLOOR CHAMPION!!!! (Cheng who?)
WHY DID CHELLSIE FALL WHY WHY WHY??!!!
No all-around/event finals for Dasha Joura. WHYYYYYY??!!
No balance beam event final for Lauren Mitchell. [...]
Posted in Olympics, tagged cassy véricel on August 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
World bronze medallist Cassy Véricel is out of the Olympics.
Damn. The French girls have already lost Severino, and now this. Even with the two Marines (Debauve and Petit) they’ll have a bit of a struggle to get through prelims.
Oh, and by the way, Cha Yong Hwa did show up for the DPRK, so I guess [...]
