[Newsbot]

Title: The night they killed figure skating
Category: Sports
Posted By: bootlegga
Date: 2010-02-19 13:25:07
Canadian

[GreenTiger]

It might be a bit of a cold war type comment but I'm glad that somebody from the west beat the Russian. He was more than a little a bit of an a-hole.

[N_Fiddledog]

Interesting article. I didn't know that. All I knew was I'd surf by figure skating, watch for awhile, and think this is boring. It used to be better. Then I'd flip to another channel.

[kenmore]

I don't know much about figure skating, but my wife and her sisters do.. they all commented on the poor judging.. said it made a mockery of Olympics..

[Lemmy]

kenmore kenmore:

I don't know much about figure skating, but my wife and her sisters do.. they all commented on the poor judging.. said it made a mockery of Olympics..

I'm not much of a figure sking aficianado either, but my wife is too and she said that a 19 year-old Czech kid named Michal Brezina was, in her opinion, BY FAR the best performer in the short program. But, alas, he's a kid who has not made a name for himself among the judges yet and he finished 9th. It's one thing for the guy who was best to finish 2nd, that can happen in a judged sport. But how can a guy who was as good or better than the guy in 1st finish 9th? It's not just a mockery of the Olympics (the Olympics is often to be mocked) but it's a mockery of honest competition.

[Proculation]

The night they killed figure skating: when they let Johnny Weir dress like a tranvestite in a professional competition !!

Wasn't Elvis Stojko who kicked Lindros' ass because he laughed at Stojko since he was a figure skater ?

Weir was a disgrace to all youth who wants to become figure skaters.

[kenmore]

Agreed