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Ha...love this....

 

https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelblackmon/sally-field-the-worlds-most-extra-mom?utm_term=.auv1AE1n0x&ref=mobile_share#.nt940Y4XrM

17 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Now I know why I stopped watching figure skating. The sport is so damn fixed. Fernandez should have at least gotten the silver. The Japanese guy who skated after Fernandez fell yet he went ahead of him?....[!@#$%^&*] No!  Especially with Fernandez already ahead of him. And the winner of the gold.....pfft.......two of his quads he barely held on ....didn't think he was that great.

 

The US Chen...great long program but had no chance with his short program failure.

 

After today I won't be watching this rigged mess again.

 

3 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

As for skating being fixed, I first realized that in 1994 when Nancy Kerrigan lost out on the gold in Lillehammer. She was robbed.

 

I think it's easy to believe figure skating is fixed, because unlike most other sports it's not about who's fastest or strongest or who can jump the longest or the highest. It has an element of performance and that opens it up for personal preferences and opinions. Sure, there are compulsary elements too, but they only account for part of the points total.

Take the above mentioned example of Nancy Kerrigan in 1994 for instance. I personally thought that Oksana Baiul deserved the gold that year, but other people don't and I can't argue with their opinion.

I'm not saying that fixing does or doesn't occur, because I have no proof either way, but there is a reason you never hear rumours like that about alpine or cross-country skiing or about long jump or decathlon.

Not surprising.

 

 

 

These two made the Olympics for me. 

 

 

LOL Squirrel for the win!!
 

 

What a fitting end. Norway's Marit Bjørgen wins the last gold medal of the games in her final olympic start to become the most decorated winter olympian ever, and with that gold medal Norway becomes the most successful country ever in a single Winter Olympic.

Finally some good ratings news from this year’s Games. Last night’s closing ceremony was up from Sochi.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/2018-winter-olympics-closing-ceremony-ratings-1202710262/

Wow!

 

Gus Kenworthy is at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium.

Yesterday at 9:34am · PyeongChang, South Korea ·

Two weeks ago, at opening ceremonies, we met and a friendship began. Today, at closing ceremonies, it ends. Adam, please stop calling me. You're honestly starting to get v clingy and I can't anymore.

10 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Wow!

 

Gus Kenworthy is at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium.

Yesterday at 9:34am · PyeongChang, South Korea ·

Two weeks ago, at opening ceremonies, we met and a friendship began. Today, at closing ceremonies, it ends. Adam, please stop calling me. You're honestly starting to get v clingy and I can't anymore.

Lol. I saw that too. Gus shouldn’t joke like that on Twitter where things can be taken out of context.

I thought it was real. I mean come on Adam does come off as clingy....LOL. I know everyone and I mean everyone loves him but he annoys me to no end sorry.

Just now, Soapsuds said:

I thought it was real. I mean come on Adam does come off as clingy....LOL. I know everyone and I mean everyone loves him but he annoys me to no end sorry.

He’s annoying and believes his own press a little too much, but he doesn’t feel bitter or mean like the KGB queen Johnny Weir. So I give him a little leeway.

11 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

He’s annoying and believes his own press a little too much, but he doesn’t feel bitter or mean like the KGB queen Johnny Weir. So I give him a little leeway.

Yup...I mean really...he is a gay guy competing in the Olympics.....And?  Like there haven't been before. What was so great that he did in the Olympics to deserve all this fame? Did he win a medal I don't know about? Did he set some Olympic record? He didn't even place and can't do a quad jump. Let's move on from him.......LOL

 

But yes no one is worse than Johnny Weir.

Edited February 26, 20187 yr by Soapsuds

Uhhhh...lol.

 

 

 

Edited March 6, 20187 yr by Faulkner