Pride Comes Before The Silver

WARNING:
This blog may show a side of me you may not know exists. A vengeful, unforgiving, callow, malicious, obsessive,

austere

side of 'the Tacy', heretofore only made manifest to a select unfortunate few.

Continue at your own risk!

I LOVE the Olympics.

(I couldn't just type "love" because that would be false, I LOVE the Olympics)

I LOVE both the summer and the winter Olympics, neither one could take top rank in my book of LOVE.

In the winter I especially love mens figure skating. My favorite male figure skater (up until he retired in 2003) was Alexei Yagudin.

He is from Russia and he was amazing.

Alexei had a rival who really didn't like him. Alexei shared mutual feelings for this guy. His name was (and still is) Evgeni Plushenko (said with disdain).

I've heard people say, "Who is your favorite football team?" and I've heard people respond, "Whoever is playing against BYU."

Every since Alexei (sexy Alexei I used to call him) retired my response to, "Who is your favorite figure skater?" would be, "Whoever is competing against Plushenko (said with contempt)."

Plushenko (said with malevolence) is, in a word, pompous.

He thinks he can do anything, and he can do it ten times better than anyone else.

Don't get me wrong, Plushenko (said with rancor) is an amazing skater. He can land a quad with amazing precision (not as good as Timothy Gable, the quad king, but that is a different post). And he really knows how to entertain a crowd, but what really bothers me is that he is so stinkin arrogant about it. There isn't a humble bone in his body.

I haven't kept up on figure skating too much lately, but I knew going into these Olympics, Plushenko, (said with disgust) had come out of retirement just to prove he could win two gold medals in a row (arrogant? I think so!).

After short programs he was in the lead, but not by much.

In an interview he mocked his competition by saying "If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump a quad, I don't know...Now it's not men's figure skating, now it's dancing."

Poking at the fact that Evan Lysacek had decided to not put a quad in his routine.

Plushenko (said with hostility) was the final long program skater, and when he finished his routine he held up two fingers, his arrogant way of saying, "look at me, I just won the gold again."

Well pride cometh before the fall Mr. Plushenko (said with cheek)!

He just wasn't good enough to get the gold twice in a row.

Ha! You Lose!!

(I fully understand that this post makes me no better than Plushenko (said with malice) but I just so happy that he lost I had to post something)

(ps: can I also publicly state that I think Johnny Weir was robbed in his long program scores, not that any of my readers care, but I just had to say it)