the proportions were very strange.

Good point!!

Lipinski’s gold was a SCANDAL. A sham. I was 10 at the time, so I was actually Team Tara, and my heart sank when Michelle skated such a beautiful program because I thought, well, that’s unbeatable! But when she got those bullshit scores, even then I, an idiot child, was like...uh? What?

JOHNNY WEIR LOST ME FOREVER WHEN HE CALLED BRADIE’S SKATING “PROVINCIAL”

I mean, maybe she pulls an Aly Raisman, who knows? But I seriously doubt it.

It’s so Of Its Time. Like, I would never watch nor enjoy this strange and whacky bullshit if it came out today, but since it didn’t I’m firmly on its side. Take me back to 1997, George.

lol I was making a dumb joke to your dumb joke, which I very much enjoyed, but mine relied too much on tone for the internet. obviously the lesson here is not to use mysterious emoticons to befuddle your offspring! D}-:

Like most of their commentary.

ahaha it sounds like a good night

This made me laugh, but also, it sounds like Kraus pretty blatantly ripped this off. I doubt Zindel wants money as much as he wants it known that the plot, at least, is his father’s genius.

yeah it was pretty bad form

To be fair, the commentators seemed surprised, too, and they are in the know! I think it was an unexpected great skate because she hadn’t skated it cleanly all season.

I did like how in her commentary Tara was praising Evgenia’s artistry over Alina’s raw jumping. I was like, O RLY.

Karen Chen is amazing but she will NOT dominate the 2022 Olympics, I am sad to say. No American will. The Russians who are too young to qualify for 2018 are already landing quads. The future of skating belongs to the youth.

George of the Jungle

You’re a force of nature that cannot be stopped, Trevor Slattery, MUSICIAN.

So their frame for this interview, wherein the big ticket item is sexual assault, is “Brendan Fraser is a has-been.” Thatz not okay!

I’m by no means an expert in the newer system, I switched over from figure skating to hockey in my early teens and lost track of the sport, but even the commentators in Michelle’s short program say that the scores are low. in Nagano. They were low! She skated a beautiful, clean program and her artistry was through the…

How would you judge the Nagano skates?!

The artistry definitely was not there for Zagitova. Her music was very well chosen...the kind that was perfect for jumping and doesn’t have much feeling to it. That said, I suppose she out-skated Medvedeva fair and square, and I was firmly Team Medvedeva. Not quite as upsetting as the Lipinski/Kwan showdown—at least M…