Also, we camped out again to watch the women's gymnastic finals, and finally solidified some cruel but funny nicknames for the seven dwarfs competing for the US:
Captain of the team, Shawn Johnson, not pictured: Tiny
In order of appearance:Bitchy, Slutty, Angry, Boring, Doc, THE UGLY ONE!
After the beam and floor exercises I elected to rechristen Bitchy with the affectionate alias of "Chokey."
P.S. Yes, we also gasped and were impressed by the diving, leaping, and bounding. But if you don't make fun of the athletes, you just start worshipping them. And we're already worshipping Bella Karolyi and his "VOW! VOW!" (wow) cheers and his descriptive metaphors: "It's an umbrella protection...A PROTECTIVE UMBRELLA!"
Me heart.
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Bela was hil-arious. I also camped out, and probably am much closer to worshipping those gymnasts. But what I loved was seeing how close they seemed to each other - the huddling up to support and encourage each other...makes me think they might be real people.
Holy crap, it's not often I have occassion to lol in a hotel room at 6AM, but this did it, especially the TGS reference.
The men gymnists weren't doing much better last night, but on the other hand, I may have Olympic potential!
* Falling on my butt during a floor exercise.
* Stepping out of bounds.
* Falling off a pommel horse.
* Falling off rings.
* Poorly dismounting from the parrallel and uneaven bars.
Plus I could do those things consistently!
I would NOT want Ruth to give me a nick-name if I was on TV in a gymnist Spandex outfit OR Speedo swimming against Michael Phelps.
I do think the TV camera was a bit "in-the-face" of "Chokey" after she had mis-performed. Give the girl some space and privacy....
Personally, I think pouting and NOT EVEN SMILING WHEN YOU GET YOUR SILVER MEDAL is poor sportsmanship. And i should know. My team cried through getting second place (sorta like silver) in a junior high basketball tournament, thinking we were being dramatic and showing how dedicated we were to the sport.
Later, my mother quite rightly informed me that it was embarrassing to watch.
Perhaps a rousing chorus of "Lean on Me" would have smoothed things over on the sidelines. Not with Bitchy though...she was just tooooo...bitchy.
The awards ceremony was past my bedtime and the girls were looking happier on the Today Show the following morning.
Even if several 0.8 point "chokes" were eliminated, the US team would not have won because of the Chinese lead from having higher difficulty routines plus the execution of those routines. Spock explained something similar to this to Kirk in an episode of Star Trek some 40 years ago.
So, yeah, pouting when getting your Silver Olympic medal is probably tacky. Last night we were comiserating with male swimmers who broke world records only to finish second to Michael Phelps. They should get an asterisk or something with their medals.
And now we have the controversy of whether or not the winning gymnasts were of age to compete. The US may en dup with the gold after all....
When did the age limit go up? I seem to recall Nadia K. being 14 when she competed under Bella back in the '80s.
I LOVE THE OLYMPICS!
And I totally agree. The message for anyone behind Phelps is:
Congratulations! You (and your shiny new swim suit) have just broken a new record!
Sucker.
Ruth! I also LOVE the Olympics!!
I wish we were watching them together. That way you would poke me to keep me awake, so I could actually watch these events live. Instead of reading about it the next day.
I am sooo old. AKA it is 10:30pm right now and my face is grazing the keyboard as I type...
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