Best National Anthem:
Russia -- the grandest and most majestic music of them all, full of emotion and patriotism, rousing enough to wake the czars
Second Best:
Germany -- if you can get past their WWII screw up
Silliest:
Italy -- it sounds like a song on Barney
Best Uniforms:
Sorry, US uniforms are not eligible since they are made in Canada
Most Obnoxious Athletes:
Let's see, uh, hmmm. . .I wonder
Biggest Flameout:
Tie between Bode Miller who should probably have his own category and
the hotdogging babe in the women's snowboard cross. I'd track down her
name, but she isn't worth it. Chad Hedrick is a close third.
Worst Nickname:
Flying Tomato
Worst Uniforms:
Any country competing in ice dancing
Worst Interview After Winning a Gold Medal:
Shani Davis doing his gangsta rapper imitation
Most Likely To Make The Box of Wheaties:
Female: The winner of the women's ice skating -- if the US wins
Male: The Flying Tomato or plain old Ted Ligity who quietly won a gold in the alpine combined, unlike some others
Least Likely:
Shani Davis, Chad Hedrick, Bode Miller, Michele Kwan, The Women's Hockey Team, The Men's Hockey Team
Best Up Close and Personal Profile:
Toby Dawson, the Korean orphan adopted by ski instructors in Vail
Most Gratuitous Racial Remark:
Bryant Gumbel -- "[The Olympics] look like a GOP convention"
Worst Winter Olympic Sport:
Curling
Any categories left out?
8 comments:
Mrs L.
How about MOST COMICAL OVERALL PERFORMANCE? I'd go for The Italian Ice Dancing team of Poli-Fusar and What's his name. The gushing elation after their first skate in their home country, the venum flowing between them after he dropped her in the semi-finals to the on camera make up/make out session after a good skate in the finals. Ha! Then they showed What's his name breaking down from all the emotional turmoil backstage when it was all over. Not trying to be cruel here, but you asked, LOL!
Mrs L CURLING "YAWN" I have watched cleaners mopping floors give more entertainment.....Ally
I can not find anyone who can tell me what curling is!
Marti
Did you see that Shani & the Joyners are suing Chicago for racial profiling?
I love curling! Who made up that sport? LOL!
The Russian National Anthem scares me. It makes me think they are coming to get me.
I can't really comment.....I haven't watched them much:(
The winter olympics just don't do it for me......except curling....curling rocks! ha ha
Chris
http://inanethoughtsandinsaneramblings.blogspot.com
as far as i can tell, curling is like shuffle-board in ice. and what's with the brooms?
I want to know who is in charge of the music selection for the Olympics. I mean, what was with all the disco at the opening ceremony? It reminded me of the summer games in Athens during the Women's Beach Volleyball and how they would play thirty seconds of an Eminem song and switch to playing something like Havah Nagilah.
No wonder all the athletes have ipods.
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