Figure Skating

[cassiesmom]

I found this on You Tube. This is from the '84 Olympics. It is Yao Bin and his partner - he's now the coach for the Chinese national figure skating program that had some huge successes at the Olympics The figure skating program in China had only been in place for a couple of years and you can see them struggle -- how far things have come since then.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L_V0E0JP20

One of the commentators points out that it takes a long time to achieve a well-established figure skating program. If I could ever meet Yao Bin, I would say mission accomplished with the two beautiful pairs teams that won medals. 26 years since he was a competitor - the commentator hit it on the head when he said it takes time to establish a program well.

Edited to add: My mom and dad got Brian Orser's autograph at a meet-and-greet.

[Bonny]

All right everyone have you taken your naps, got plenty of pop corn in the house to pop, have the cell phone turned off this evening because it is time to go for the gold in the original dance tonight. May the best dressed, best rehearsed, with no mistakes, couple win.

[Momto4FemaleFelines]

All right everyone have you taken your naps, got plenty of pop corn in the house to pop, have the cell phone turned off this evening because it is time to go for the gold in the original dance tonight. May the best dressed, best rehearsed, with no mistakes, couple win.

Bonny, you're a day ahead of yourself. Tonight is the O.D., original dance. This is the one where they have to skate to a certain type of music, this year it is "folk dance" (it can be ANY country's folk dance). Monday night is the free dance, where they can be "free" to do anything they want within the outline of what is acceptable in dance and when the Gold will be awarded.

I don't have much faith in Ben & Tanith winning Gold, they may not even place on the podium. I don't know what it is with them this year, but they have, it seems, lost that "it" they had last year and the year before. I'm thinking their training partners, Davis/White, will place ahead of them.