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Ski-jumping
Dec. 29th, 2010 07:49 pmI really ought to bring back my ski-jumping icon.
I watched the first of the Four Hills today, and enjoyed it immensely :D Way to go Thomas Morgenstern :D
He's taking a ~ 16 point lead into the next jump, and yes, that is easily lost but eee! nearly 8 metres.
(Please don't ever show that previous sentence to an English teacher, I think I sprained English grammar to it's breaking point.)
The only thing that marred today's joy, other than RL taking a toll on the Finnish jumpers, is how screamingly biased the Eurosport commentators are against the Austrians. Actually, that's not fair, it's not that they're against the Austrians, it's that they're for everyone else. I don't know why, it's not like they're horrors. If it was the old Austrian Men's Skiing team, I could understand, because they were terrible (to the point that some of their teammates booked into different hotels to avoid them), but the ski-jumpers are lovely.
It's also not that there aren't jumpers from other countries that I love. If it was a choice for a given jump, and it came down to Noriaki Kasai or Thomas Morgenstern, then I'd cheer for Kasai.
There's Vladimir Zografski, who they love. And I admire him, because going into as technical a sport as ski-jumping without national federation backing (if he does well this year, they've promised him money for next year) takes guts. But it's probably be better if they didn't go on about how wonderful he is (and nice and charming and brave) every time his name is mentioned.
And Simon Ammann, who they're worried is thinking about retirement. Now I wish Ammann no ill, in fact I hope his back is as good as it ever was, mostly because, not only do I not want people to be in pain, but I'd rather the Austrians beat an Ammann at his best, not a half injured one. And every time, it's how nice he is, and how lovely his wife is, and how intelligent he is, because he has an engineering degree from Zurich. None of the Austrians got that, they normally get 'such and such-a-body who is retiring because he's being over-taken by someone younger', when actually, a lot of them do decide to retire of their own free will. There's no worrying about what will happen to the sport if they retire. Grr, I shake my fist at the Eurosport commentators.
But really, I'm mostly just happy about the result (also 5 Austrians in the top 10 :D ).
I watched the first of the Four Hills today, and enjoyed it immensely :D Way to go Thomas Morgenstern :D
He's taking a ~ 16 point lead into the next jump, and yes, that is easily lost but eee! nearly 8 metres.
(Please don't ever show that previous sentence to an English teacher, I think I sprained English grammar to it's breaking point.)
The only thing that marred today's joy, other than RL taking a toll on the Finnish jumpers, is how screamingly biased the Eurosport commentators are against the Austrians. Actually, that's not fair, it's not that they're against the Austrians, it's that they're for everyone else. I don't know why, it's not like they're horrors. If it was the old Austrian Men's Skiing team, I could understand, because they were terrible (to the point that some of their teammates booked into different hotels to avoid them), but the ski-jumpers are lovely.
It's also not that there aren't jumpers from other countries that I love. If it was a choice for a given jump, and it came down to Noriaki Kasai or Thomas Morgenstern, then I'd cheer for Kasai.
There's Vladimir Zografski, who they love. And I admire him, because going into as technical a sport as ski-jumping without national federation backing (if he does well this year, they've promised him money for next year) takes guts. But it's probably be better if they didn't go on about how wonderful he is (and nice and charming and brave) every time his name is mentioned.
And Simon Ammann, who they're worried is thinking about retirement. Now I wish Ammann no ill, in fact I hope his back is as good as it ever was, mostly because, not only do I not want people to be in pain, but I'd rather the Austrians beat an Ammann at his best, not a half injured one. And every time, it's how nice he is, and how lovely his wife is, and how intelligent he is, because he has an engineering degree from Zurich. None of the Austrians got that, they normally get 'such and such-a-body who is retiring because he's being over-taken by someone younger', when actually, a lot of them do decide to retire of their own free will. There's no worrying about what will happen to the sport if they retire. Grr, I shake my fist at the Eurosport commentators.
But really, I'm mostly just happy about the result (also 5 Austrians in the top 10 :D ).
