We've got a shiny gold
Feb. 15th, 2006 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Sorry, this entry was going to be all about the men's short programme but then I found out that Michaela Dorfmeister won the women's downhill. Please excuse me while I do the silly dance and wave my Austrian scarf about.
I'm extra pleased because she's retiring :( and hadn't won an Olympic medal of any colour before.
Anyway, onto the men's short programme. I watched the men's skating and started to feel certain that technique is slipping, people are missing triples for goodness sake.
Other than that I would have had Joubert at least 1 position higher, and I don't even like him, as usual I loved his costume, the boy, or his coach, has style and brains and a sense of ideas. I may have misjudged him when I said he had American style, he's getting more French i.e. bonkers brilliant, as he gets older. Actually that's the worst thing, with him, Plushenko and Lambiel I don't just see what they look like now, I see what they looked like when they were wee young things. With Lambiel it's the worst because when did that boy get good looking.
Johnny Wier definitely also looked damn good, ditto Matthew Savoie.
Not sure how I feel about Plushenko's short programme other than relieved. Barry Davies came out with a corker of a comment '[Plushenko] is sometimes a little dramatic when you are watching'. No shit Sherlock. I can barely watch him waiting for the thing he will screw up that he could normally do in his sleep. But yes, it wasn't as good as I know he can be.
It's worse than watching the men's combined! Sorry, joke on my part because I knew Benni Raich would throw it away before I watched it, because he always does. Yes, had Dorfmeister not won this would be a very depressed Red.
I'm extra pleased because she's retiring :( and hadn't won an Olympic medal of any colour before.
Anyway, onto the men's short programme. I watched the men's skating and started to feel certain that technique is slipping, people are missing triples for goodness sake.
Other than that I would have had Joubert at least 1 position higher, and I don't even like him, as usual I loved his costume, the boy, or his coach, has style and brains and a sense of ideas. I may have misjudged him when I said he had American style, he's getting more French i.e. bonkers brilliant, as he gets older. Actually that's the worst thing, with him, Plushenko and Lambiel I don't just see what they look like now, I see what they looked like when they were wee young things. With Lambiel it's the worst because when did that boy get good looking.
Johnny Wier definitely also looked damn good, ditto Matthew Savoie.
Not sure how I feel about Plushenko's short programme other than relieved. Barry Davies came out with a corker of a comment '[Plushenko] is sometimes a little dramatic when you are watching'. No shit Sherlock. I can barely watch him waiting for the thing he will screw up that he could normally do in his sleep. But yes, it wasn't as good as I know he can be.
It's worse than watching the men's combined! Sorry, joke on my part because I knew Benni Raich would throw it away before I watched it, because he always does. Yes, had Dorfmeister not won this would be a very depressed Red.
