Sports Update
Jan. 7th, 2007 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Because, as usual, I have been doing nothing but watching sport. There were winter sports and they were on my TV. How could I resist?
At this point I would like to state my undying love for the following: the French biathlon coaches, Ole Einar Bjordahlen, Lars Berger, who kept smiling after a cursed weekend), the Oberhof organising committee, who managed to keep things flowing smoothly despite having not enough snow and far too much rain, and the Oberhof crowd who, in said pouring rain, never had any umbrellas up for fear of spoiling the view of spectators behind them.
The Russians are back though, and how. They're the only ones who seem to have everything together.
Ski-jumping goes less well, but, I've accepted that the Austrians can't win everything, and at least Schlierensauer won in Bischofhofen, and the Swiss didn't win the overall title.
Formula 1 - Dear Heikki Koivannen, please step outside, without your helmet on because you're paler than Mika and Kimi ever managed. Evidence here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/6175945.stm
I feel kind of sorry for Fisi, he's about to get beaten by yet another beginner. I would love for him to do well, but I don't see it happening.
World's Strongest Man -
This started out quite normally, events evil, Mariusz scary and everyone else doing their damnedest. And some of those events were spectacularly evil, the only explanation being that the organisers are sadists. Because they had the power steps, which ripped everyone's hands raw, followed by the overhead lift, which involved gripping stones with said hands. How they didn't all break down is beyond me.
So far, so normal.
Then Phil Pfister starting winning events, which was unexpected because he hadn't looked good in the qualifier. And he just kept going. So in the end, it came down to the Atlas stones. Pfister v Pudzianowski, head to head.
And it literally was winner takes all, on the last stone. So damn cool, and pretty much the ultimate ending.
Phil Pfister won, and deserved, and it was good.
At this point I would like to state my undying love for the following: the French biathlon coaches, Ole Einar Bjordahlen, Lars Berger, who kept smiling after a cursed weekend), the Oberhof organising committee, who managed to keep things flowing smoothly despite having not enough snow and far too much rain, and the Oberhof crowd who, in said pouring rain, never had any umbrellas up for fear of spoiling the view of spectators behind them.
The Russians are back though, and how. They're the only ones who seem to have everything together.
Ski-jumping goes less well, but, I've accepted that the Austrians can't win everything, and at least Schlierensauer won in Bischofhofen, and the Swiss didn't win the overall title.
Formula 1 - Dear Heikki Koivannen, please step outside, without your helmet on because you're paler than Mika and Kimi ever managed. Evidence here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/6175945.stm
I feel kind of sorry for Fisi, he's about to get beaten by yet another beginner. I would love for him to do well, but I don't see it happening.
World's Strongest Man -
This started out quite normally, events evil, Mariusz scary and everyone else doing their damnedest. And some of those events were spectacularly evil, the only explanation being that the organisers are sadists. Because they had the power steps, which ripped everyone's hands raw, followed by the overhead lift, which involved gripping stones with said hands. How they didn't all break down is beyond me.
So far, so normal.
Then Phil Pfister starting winning events, which was unexpected because he hadn't looked good in the qualifier. And he just kept going. So in the end, it came down to the Atlas stones. Pfister v Pudzianowski, head to head.
And it literally was winner takes all, on the last stone. So damn cool, and pretty much the ultimate ending.
Phil Pfister won, and deserved, and it was good.
