Ladies Short Program

Ladies short was really fun to watch, everyone they showed skated pretty great. The U.S. doesn't really have any medal contenders this Olympics (it will likely be the first Olympics since Peggy Flemming that the U.S. doesn't medal in women's figure skating) but both the girls skated well and are in fifth and sixth place going into long, so not to shabby. The front runners were amazing tonight, two girls from Japan and one from Korea. I only had one problem with scoring, and that was that the one girl can do a triple Axel in combination with a double toe loop I think it was and the girl with the triple triple combination scores more points because technically she is doing more revolutions...that is a bunch of crap. Just like the quad needs to be awarded more points so does a female doing a triple Axel (very few women can do them at all let along in competition and in a combination. I think the U.S. has had two girls that could do them that I know of, Kimmi Mesiner and Tanya Harding) which is the hardest figure skating jump because you take off in the forward position. A triple Axel is standard for men, but women only have to do a double so a triple is pretty impressive and should be judged accordingly in my opinion. Can't wait for Thursday night the top women are going to be awesome and I love watching some good skating!

In other new, there is this whole backlash from the Russians over Evan's gold medal. Evegni's website has awarded him the platinum medal for this Olympics...seriously get over it, I have lost all respect for the guy. Evan didn't do the quad, but what he did do was better executed than the rest of Evegni's program. Like Evan said if the long program was based on quads it would be over in 10 seconds not 4 minutes...sheesh.