E! is late to the party. Saw a promo the other night during Pretty Little Liars for ABC Family's Monica the Medium, about a Penn State junior who doesn't have time to party because she spends all her time (I quote) "with dead people." http://abcfamily.go.com/sho…

I'm getting a lot of hits that sound like characters in a Pynchon novel:

But like it or not - "fair" or not - passion, energy, that undefined "x" factor is party of the sport, and the way it is judged and apprehended by the audience. Sotnikova built on her short program and then some, both feeding off the home crowd AND coming out firing as an underdog precisely because she had been mostly…

I guess choke isn't exactly accurate w/r/t 1998 and Kwan. She actually skated very well then, and cleanly, you are correct - but Lipinski was pretty damn near perfect as you can be, and clean was not enough. Kwan just wasn't 100% there that night, and she needed to be. She just wasn't possessed of that killer instinct.

An interesting read to be sure, even if misguided and flat out wrong. Adelina didn't win (or steal, which seems to be the author's implication) the gold on a technicality. She skated with absolute fire and fearlessness, a high wire act that could've been catastrophic if she'd effed up any one of her jumps. While she…