Rochette 3rd!!!
I must admit that I did get emotional before and after watching Joannie Rochette perform her long program for figure skating. There was no doubt Yuna Kim would win it without a problem if she landed her jumps, which she did (perfectly). And barely any doubt that the Japanese kid (Mao?) would get second. Their technical and visual elements are just above everyone else's throughout the competition, especially Yuna Kim's....
But I was praying really hard that Joannie Rochette would win something and I was glad she did. I had never cheered for Canada at figure skating and no figure skater had ever been able to move me to the point of shedding tears, but she definitely was inspiring. I saw that look in her eyes when she got her medal. While Yuna Kim was crying out of stress relief and happiness to have won the Olympics, Joannie Rochette was just standing there crying and wishing her Mom could have seen her in her utmost glory. She was probably heartbroken most of the time since that tragedy, but she stood and she smiled and she won... For one to stand so strong at a moment when she must be so emotionally weak... it only inspires respect.
I praised her in previous entries and I'll praise her again now.
Congratulations, Joanie Rochette! Out of all the athletes that got something in those games, you're the one who deserved it the most.
On a very different note. I am SO GLAD Olympics are almost OVERRRR.
I was excited too at the beginning... It's pretty cool to tell your friends all over the world that your country is hosting something so big... (even if it's at the other end of the country and you'll never get to watch them unless you spend a ridiculous amount of time and money.) Then there was the cost realization and then I saw how ridiculously obsessed people can get over a match of whatever sport. I thought it was funny at first, now I find it quite pathetic. I mean... yeah nationalism and whatever and sure, I want Canada to win the hockey competition. It's fun and all. Cheering by screaming is also the best way to release stress...
But the thing is, people are getting wayyyy too emotionally worked out over the whole damn thing. Especially the ones who start insulting other countries just because their team lost or just because they think their country is so awesome. Sheesh, get over yourself.
US especially, we know you guys get loaaads of medals. Good for you. Now pleeeeease shut up and let other countries do their best.
Or Russia, pleeeeeeaaaase get over the fact that Evgeni Plushenko didn't get gold. DIGNITY in winning AND in losing!!! The WHOLE freggin' world is looking at you. No need to file complaints and find a scapegoat or whatever...
And that goes for everyone out there who thinks insulting another country is justified just cuz your country didn't make it to the finals or whatever.
(Specific example: all those Korean kids who just insult/swear at the Chinese for "stealing" their medal. Get over it, it's just a sport. We are better than that, don't make us look like a bunch of uneducated idiots who can't lose with dignity.)
Anyways. MEH.
Thank God it's over soon.
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