Did Nancy Kerrigan's brother kill her father?! — Page 6

doodle-saying that jumps are everything to everyone is not meant as an insult. The sport is based and judged on jumps, scored on jumps, jumps jumps and when I read posts here everyone mentions the jumps and maybe occasionally something else. What I infer from all that is that jumps are it.

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Did Hubert ACTUALLY skate to a symphonic Queen medley?? That's f*cking awesome.

I can still remember exactly where I was when I watched that performance.

AND she skated last!!!

"I never will appreciate the skating "talent" of Nancy-I don't see it!"

LOL, neither do I. She was a very good skater, but imo I found her style to be too mechanical. Even when doing the "dance" components, I got the feeling she was doing the movements because they were choreographed (versus her adding her own interpretation to the choreography), and it actually looked awkward to me. I have to say that of all the years that I have been watching skating (since Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn), she has imo been one of the most stiff skaters I have ever seen at that level. I would not describe her as a lyrical performer. But everyone sees something different, so no sense arguing. I may have mentoned earlier that I would not have been unhappy if she had gotten the gold medal, because she did skate well. It's just that as Dick Button once said about great skaters, "do they elevate the sport?", and I never felt that she did.

It's hard to defend Oskana, LOL, because she never lived up to her potential and she became a train wreck off the ice. But she did have a natural dance ability that I appreciated.

Michelle - What a heartbreaker, I'm so sorry she's not a member of the gold medal club.

"But jumping is what...ya know...makes it a sport."

I see it a different way. I see it as skating is the sport. Ya know, like speed skating doesn't involve jumps and it's a sport.

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doodle please. When speaking in generalizations, I was not singling you out. Generally, jumping is all important and I was not directing it to you,

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Then you must LOVE ice dancing!!!

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I actually agree that the concept of 'whoever lands the quad wins the gold' is ridiculous. But jumps are part of the whole package. And whoever puts all the elements together the best is who I'll root for.

So Son of Roib, is Nancy Kerrigan the one who put it all together the best for you?

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Well obviously both aspects are important and that's why there are 2 different sets of scores. So you're both right. There. Kiss and make up!

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"LOL Doodle! I STILL love figure skating on my kitchen floor!!"

My sibs and I would put on our own Olympics. There were only two events (figure skating and speed skating) and we all competed in each one, socks and all. Mom was the judge. She'd watch while she graded papers. One time, after we'd been awarded our homemade construction paper medals, we started bowing/waving to each side of the "rink" (really, the bedroom hardwood floor) like they do in figure skating. We began facing mom and worked our way clockwise, but when we got back to her she was gone. We went looking for her and asked why she'd left, and she said matter-of-factly, "You already waved to me." So like fools we had stood there waving at blank walls. Hahahaha

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Updated On: 1/26/10 at 06:03 PM

My brother in law has an ice rink in his back yard in the winter and the kids love it.

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I"m LMAO at the mental picture of a little danmag up to her waist in icy water. Is that wrong?

I wanted to be Dorothy Hamil. Is that spelled wrong, it looks wrong. But I didn't want her haircut. I thought it was sorta dorky.

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I should have never clicked on that link with my 6 year old sitting right next to me. Now I have to add those to the ever-growing list of things he "has to have."

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Yes, he did! "I need to get those!" were his exact words....LOL

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