Figure Skating Men

OK.  Now I will admit, what I am about to type is probably not gonna be the most popular thing, but I just can’t keep it in any longer.  I’ve sat here all night watching the Olympics, men’s figure skating, to be exact.  I really don’t get it.  They’re good…even when the announcer says they screwed up their jumping cow or whatever it’s called (yes I know it’s called a sow cow…though I am not sure it’s spelled that way, but we’ll go with that spelling for now).  I think anyone who is able to wear a shoe with a tiny blade and the move around on ice and jump and twirl, is amazing.  But I just don’t get why men want to do it.  Why do they want to wear skin tight clothes that sparkle? 

And then they go and interview the skater and ask him if he can get the gold and he responds with “I hope so”…good answer.  But he totally screws that up by following up with “it doesn’t really matter.  I just want to have fun”.  That’s all fine and dandy to have fun and one could say, “wow what a nice attitude he has”, but come on people!  This is the Olympics.  You are there to WIN.  You can have fun skating on the pond back home.  I am all for good sportsmanship.  Seeing competitors shake hands after a race is awesome.  I love that shit.  But I also want to hear the truth.  I want to hear “dammit, I’m here to win”.

While I am off on my tangents, I’ll also say, I don’t get men’s gymnastics either.  Things like the rings, that’s kind of cool to watch them do, but floor routine?  Not so cool to me.  And then we have those tight costumes again that are so distracting.  Believe me, I understand why they need to be tight.  Shoot when I was growing up, I was a competitive swimmer and at that time the boys wore those itty bitty banana hammocks Speedo’s.  I get why things have to be tight.  It’s just weird.  It was weird when I was growing up and competing in swimming and it’s still weird to me.  Some may say I just need to grow up, which is probably the truth!  Ha!  But back to gymnastics.  What really weirds me out the most is how high pitched those Hamm brothers voices are.  It totally sounds like they have their balls wrapped around their head in a bow.  And we know it’s totally related to the gymnastics and probably all the working out they have done at such a young age.  Hopefully they go through puberty soon and gain a higher pitched voice.

On a different note.  My daughter informed me today that she wants to be an Olympic snow boarder.  Somehow I can totally picture that with her.  Maybe not the Olympics, though that would be cool, but I could picture her really enjoying snow boarding!