"Why meeeeeeeeee??? Why meeeeeeeee???"

Oh wait, that was Nancy Kerrigan.

Fuckyou-
You've sorta established yourself as a deeply closeted "ghey" with a tiny penis.

Rock on!!

Yes, thou protests too much, but the kicker is your rants against black men. Dude, you thought of everything.

FU, don't mind DR's blabbering deranged Boyd. He does not recognized the difference between humor and serious discord. Funny ass post bro!!

I don't recognize what you said as English.

Michelle Kwan is a true champion and a woman of character and integrity.

Plus she is HOT!

hopefully now she can make porno instead of that silly skating business

"Michelle Kwan is a true champion and a woman of character and integrity"

Yup, after bellyaching and moaning about getting on the team without properly qualifying --- she bows out.

Perhaps next time she will think about the team FIRST and not just herself!

She's gotten WAY more press than she deserves... the Olympics is intended to focus on current, active athletes, not people who bail... lets move on. How about those snowboarders!

"not people who bail"

Wow.

She "bailed" because she wasn't 100% and she was thinking of her teammates and this country....what was best for them, not about herself.

I don't think there's enough coverage about people who display this kind of character and integrity. We all might learn from her.

Michelle Kwan is a true champion and a woman of character and integrity.


Posted by InWI at 2006-02-13 08:00 AM | Reply

--Blackmails the IOC with sponsorships and Q-scores. Makes the Team, after a 4th place finish 14 months ago in the world championships, in a no camera, no press, no judge practice session. Keeps the DESEARVING 3rd place finisher in the U.S. in hopes that Kuan will increase the TV ratings for NBC........YA real character and integrity there! Since she has NEVER won the gold (the ONLY award that matters in figure skating), she is not a "champion" either. But lets all pat her on the back for being a woman eh InWi?
Kuan is a disgrace to the US olympic team, a crybaby, and a quitter!

I hate to do it but I agree with r8r.
How did she manage to turn this into her doing a good thing? NBC sucks. I'd rather watch CBC, it's real time and less fluff.
Katie Couric drives me frigging nuts. Matt Lauer is her bitch.

I just want that Bode Miller character to do a wide world of sports wipeout so he can stfu.

there was some bullshit about her being there in the first place but she was supposedly ready to roll......BUT if she didnt qualify like everyone else...I guess you could call it justice...of course her replacement is probably not ready no matter how cute she looks in that little skirt.

Kwan was fucked over by her stupid sport, and now some people here are bitching about her. She deserved gold for certain, only "sports" that require judging are stupid and shouldn't be in the Olympics anyway.

i agree .. the olympics have been turned into a cadre of shitty fru fru sports. I always imagined the olympics as a collection of skills that either

1- allowed you to be able to kill an opponent or modified from a weapon ( javelin, dicsus, pentathlon, archery)

2- hand to hand combat (judo, hockey, boxing, wrestling)

3- a usable skill to escape ( cross country skiing, marathon, swimming, cycling)

I would modify #3 and combine to create a 4th class by allowing people in category #1 to try and kill those in #3. THAT would be interesting.


figure skating, water ballet or any of these other things should be banned.

just my opinion.

Agred Legio and John.....once the 'victor' is decided by subjective means, an event ceases to be a sport. I do not know what you mean by, "Kuan was fucked over........ She deserved gold for certain....." BigJohn. She 'deserves' what she got, a bronze medal and a very lucrative career as a pitch-(wo)man. Figure skating is a HOBBY, practiced by 12-15 people in the whole world and enjoyed by housewives across America. She is a great seller-of-soap, and self-promoter, but an average athlete.

I've wondered what all the US Olympic atheletes, past and present thought of Peter Ueberroth's comments, chairman of the board of the USOC. Kwan has won a brone and a silver, an amazing achievement. Other atheletes have won as many as seven gold medels in one Olympics - difficult to even comprehend.

Oh, his comment...

"Michelle Kwan means more to the USOC than any athlete that's ever performed for the USOC."

Un-huh. Makes you swell with pride for how she means more to the USOC than any other of its athletes.

Idiot.

Regards,
etc.

Kwan was well marketed because she is so hot. Just like Anna Kournikova, who has been a medicore tennis pro, but because she's got a cute butt she's filthy rich from product endorsements.

Figure skating is lovely to watch, but it would be more interesting if two competitors had to skate at the same time. Maybe carrying those long Kung Fu staffs for knocking down the opponent.

"Michelle Kwan means more to the USOC than any athlete that's ever performed for the USOC."

--Ya that Jessie Owens guy was really overrated.
Or Eric Heiden who prevailed at distances that would compare to a track athlete grabbing gold in events from the 100-yard dash to the 10,000 meters, and all under the pressure of Olympic competition. He shattered Olympic records in every race, and smashed the world record in the 10,000. Maybe the greatest Olympic feat EVER!

But Kuan is pretty and cuddly so she is better....glass ceiling my ass!

R8R,

Does that ever bring back memories. I was a huge fan of the ice sports at that time, having just hung up the skates a few years earlier in hockey.

Hear, hear.

Regards,
etc.

TPS...after Eric won five gold medals he came home and got a real job, abandoned the 'hero' status he enjoyed in Europe, and turned down several multi-million dollar endorsements. Later he took up competitive biking as a hobby and won two world championships. After he conquered that he became a three-time Ironman champion.....Friggin machine!....and sadly unknown here in America. Maybe if he had done a few diet pepsi commercials we might give him his due. Instead, we chose to give credit to beauty pageant winners like Kuan, and drunks like Bodi.... :(
In the "more info they you wanted" category; his diet during competition at the games was 2 gallons of milk, 2 whole baked turkeys, and 3 loaves of bread....A DAY!

Mark Spitz was a decent Olympic athlete.

R8,
I've never met you but I bet you have brown eyes, since you are so full of shit...
The only remark you have made that makes any sense is that Kwan didn't deserve a Gold medal because she wasn't good enough.
As to figure skating being a hobby, you show your total ignorance with a remark like that. My granddaughter has been a figure skater since she was 3 1/2 years old. She has skated in national competitions since she was six. When you were sleeping comfortably in your bed at 4:30 AM, she was on her way to skating practice before school four days a week. She's 14 and has the skill to make as much money as you probably make per year. She has skated with and received training from Olympic Medalists like Tara Lipinski (who beat Kwan for the Gold when she was 15), Oksana Baiul (who beat Kerrigan for the Gold), Ilya Kulik (1998 Men's Gold), Phillipe Candelorio (two Bronze medals plus World Championship Silver and Bronze), Timothy Goebel (Bronze), she was coached for almost 3 years by Aleksey Ulanov (1972 pairs Gold and the man who designed the pairs program that Russian teams have used to win Gold TEN straight Olympics - in fact if you watch the 1972 program he designed you will find that not only was it still used in the 2002 Olympics but that when Yelena Terezhnaya fell in the 2002 games she fell in on the exact same move as Irina Rodnina did in the 1972 finals - like looking at an instant replay). In addition, she received instruction from skaters who won World Championships like Surya Bonaly (Silver 1993-4-5), Evan Lysacek (USA Bronze 2005), Michael Weiss (USA Bronze 1999-2000), Rudy Galindo (USA Bronze 1996). Also potential 2010 Olympic ice dancers Melissa Gilbert and Denis Petukhov were told by their coach Oleg Epstein to watch my Granddaughter to learn how to spin properly.
So that's 12 professional figure skaters that taught my granddaughter how to skate. You can't get ice time because of the masses of people who want to be figure skaters. Both of my Grandsons are also figure skaters. And neither of my Grandsons are sissies either. The older one, who is 13, won 1st place at the US Championships in Minneapolis and he was thrown off of his hockey team for being too rough. When some hockey kids were making fun of him for figure skating, he took on five of them at one time.
The Olympic Gold medalist that was my Granddaughter's coach almost didn't compete in the 1972 Olympics because in Japan it is illegal to have a woman that isn't your wife in a hotel room and he got caught with a woman in his room during the Olympics. Even now, at 59, he has a wife in Russia and a girlfriend in Florida.
So tell me more about figure skating being a hobby. Most of them do more work before breakfast than you do the whole day. I was backstage as a guest at Stars On Ice in Cleveland with Swiss skater Lucinda Ruh, a really sweet woman. She spent over an hour talking to me and introducing me to all of the top stars of skating like Katarina Witt, Kurt Browning, Scott Hamilton and Todd Eldridge. This woman has the World Record for the most continuous upright spins on ice skates on one foot with 115 at Chelsea Piers Sky Rink in New York on April 3, 2003. She also spins quicker than anyone, estimated at 360 RPM. Hardly what I would call a "hobby", particularly when you consider she has a cracked spine.

My eyes are blue so I must be full of Romulan Ale.

"I must be full of Romulan Ale."

So how does that compare to 1500 mics of Purple Owsley?

Zat,
I will let you know as soon as feeling returns.

R8,
PS. Forgot to mention that for all the money these skaters make, they are nicer and friendlier than any other athletes I have ever associated with, including NASCAR drivers. With one exception. Oksana Baiul is an asshole. Would you believe that when my Granddaughter and another girl were trying to go out on the ice to rehearse the opening number for the Skate With the Stars opening, she had her bodyguard stop them. She thought they wanted her autograph! First of all, she is the ONLY figure skating star I ever saw who actually HAD a bodyguard and second of all. my Granddaughter had no interest in even talking to her let alone getting her autograph. My wife and I spent over a half an hour talking to Tara Lipinski's Mom and about the same amount of time talking to Surya Bonaly's Mom and they were like talking to the next door neighbor. As I said before, I spent over an hour with Lucinda Ruh and all of the stars from Stars On Ice and nobody ever even asked me for a backstage pass. In fact, because I didn't have a seat for the show (which was sold out) they set up a folding chair in the front row in the aisle so I could watch the show after visiting with all of the stars before the show.
She is the only person I have ever met that acted like she was better than the people in the audience. Michelle Kwan acts the same way. Kristi Yamaguchi is far more friendly than she is and more talented as well. Kristi has succeeded both as a pairs skater (with Rudy Galindo as her partner) and as a singles skater.
Phillipe Candeloro was the main star for one year in the Skate With the Stars program before going back to France to head up the French Stars On Ice program and he was so friendly. Every time he would walk past my Granddaughter he would pat her on the head and tell her a joke to make her laugh and relieve her nervousness since she was in the group that was opening the show for the stars.

Mark Spitz was a decent Olympic athlete.

That is who I was thinking of when I read Ueberroth's comment and decided it needed posting here.

Regards,
etc.

ShyGuy,

Toss back a Romulan Ale with Kanrei there. Make it a cold one. You need to chill out. Everyone has hopes and dreams for their progeny and I sincerely hope your granddaughter gets to experience her's. Likely she is already.

I'd relax a little about the star power stuff however. You are starting to sound like a groupie instead of an enthusiast. They are all just people in the end who worked hard, had talent, got breaks, and were recognized. I met Brian Orser back in the mid-80s coming down in the same elevator and didn't even recognize him at first. We talked about him coming back from Europe for a minute before I realized just "why" he might have been there. Both my sons have had chats with Gretzky's dad at different times.

They're all just good ol' fashioned folks unless they've let it get to their heads. In which case you and I have met plenty of those types who will never be famous 'cep in their own minds.

Pass a Romulan ale.

Regards,
etc.

shy....jezzz guy, settle down. Only because your precious little grand daughter participates do you think figure skating is important. The only time ANYONE gives a shit about figure skating is during the Olympics. It is a 'fringe' sport....you need to get used to that. It is a beauty pageant on ice where the talent portion is skating around in circles. Only .0000006% of the population knows the difference between a triple sow-cow (sp) and a triple lutz. Your grand daughter might as well grow up to be a professional horse shoe pitcher. She may have a career working cruise ships for $8.oo an hour and room/board. Otherwise you need to prepare her for a real job mopping my floors and scrubbing my toilets.

BTW Shy, I only read about three sentences of your tripe. If you want make a point with me, the gushing over your grand kids must be held to a readable passage. 900 words to boo-hoo over how great your grand kids are is asking a bit much of me. My attention span is normally around 2.8 seconds....subjects concerning booger-eating kids, it shrinks to half that.