And she’s only FIFTEEN. Which means she’s got at least two Olympics ahead of her after this. It blows my mind that someone could be that good at that age.

So in your eyes, if someone goes out there and just skates around doing simple jumps a 12 year old could do, but they do it flawlessly and beautifully, they should win over a person who skates a really difficult program, but messes up a time or two?

If you’re a male skater in the Olympics and don’t even attempt a quad, you are not winning, no matter how great a skater you might be. Not saying you need to land 15 of them in a routine, and obviously it’s insanely difficult, but such is the nature of this already ridiculous, ridiculous activity already, and he knew…

Can we talk about that 15 year old Russian girl who was doing jumps with her arms over her head ?!? Her preformence was insane as she saved all of her jumps for the end and than did them all in the most difficult way. I’m totally rooting for USA but my Russian/Ukrainian heritage is excited to see this girl skate in…

“I literally understand none of this”

He didn’t nail all his jumps, though. His triple Lutz was underrotated. If it had been fully rotated, he would’ve scored higher of Kolyada.

And she’s only 15 hopefully she doesn’t end up like most of the talented teen Russian skaters this decade who ended up having the careers cut short.

First of all this event was not for a medal. This was the TEAM competition. The only thing someone gets for winning their individual part is points, not a medal. You only get a medal if your team gets the most points, so no he was not robbed of a medal. Robbed of some points, maybe. Next time maybe he should try…

Adam skated so well, and I felt that his PCS (artistic/performance) score should’ve been a point or two higher. But you can’t underrotate your triple Lutz when you don’t have a quad in your program. If the Lutz had been all the way around, he would’ve beaten Kolyada. 

FYI- a quick wipe down of the kitchen floor with Pledge first will reduce friction and help you net a quad next time. Synthetic socks work best.

There’s something about getting a second chance and FUCKING NAILING IT that makes me well up with joy.

Like at gunpoint? Knifepoint? Was it a gang of thugs or just one?

Itonically, this whole form of judging started when the judges got slammed for rewarding a safe, clean program over a messier one with a quad.

OKay, but American Olympic commentary pretty much consistes of “our athletes are the best, look how the best they are, we last and that’s not fair.”

You are thinking about French skate Surya Bonaly who could do a backflip and land on one skate.

My favorite of Weir’s comments was that scores above 130 are good, 140 are great, and 150 are Russian (paraphrasing)

I wish she’d been in Sochi instead of Ashley “Bullshit” Wagner.

All that work by everyone else, and that 15 year old just wiped the floor with them by 20 points.

Nagasu was thrilling to watch. Her emotional reaction and response of her teammates at the conclusion of the program was my favorite moment of the Olympics, thus far.

Can we talk about Zagitova though? She murdered her program, and did it in opera length gloves. Fifteen years old. I am a life failure.