so anyone else a figure skating nut like me? just went to the Portland Stars on Ice - fantastic... Sasha, Evan, Joannie...
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Cool! I haven't seen ice skating in person in YEARS. I enjoy watching them on TV, that is for sure!
Posted by penguingirl (Member # 28688) on :
Yes I love figure skating! If I could be any athlete it would be either that or tennis.
I missed this event - Friday was a BAD herx day so glad I didn't buy any tix.. but will have to go to the next one!
Posted by Liz D (Member # 16739) on :
penguingirl - yes indeed you will have to go to the next one - if Boston was as good as Portland it was a real treat. I confess that watching Sasha Cohen skate was on my lifes 'bucket list' - and she did not disappoint. I like all the 'pretty' sports; skating, diving, gymnastics... a bit of tennis too (love that Rodger F!)
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Sasha was always my favorite to watch... EXCEPT that she kept falling all the time when she was in the Olympics and such. Very disappointing.
But her style is mesmerizing.
Posted by penguingirl (Member # 28688) on :
Yes Sasha was my favorite too - so graceful and her spirals were amazing.
But I agree - not a consistent jumper in the Olympics. = (
However I'd still rather watch Sasha ANY day with falls over Rachael Flatt who might not fall but is just not pleasing to watch (IMO).
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
oh me too. i love the winter olympics.
and johnny wier is a hoot!!
but the kid who won the gold is my favorite. the tall dark hired guy.
he dates the little blond gymnist from dallas.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
agreed penguingirl!!
randi.. which gymnast?? Even L .. love him
johnny .. not so much
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
oh yeah, evan. that was his name.
but nobody is as cute as scott hamilton.
michael loves the older ones, peggy fleming and oh i can't think of her name.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Dorothy Hamill!! Oh yeah!! and I loved Peggy Fleming too!!
Posted by Liz D (Member # 16739) on :
and Torvill and Dean......anyone else old enough ahemmmm to remember their stunning style?
Posted by penguingirl (Member # 28688) on :
What happened to Tara Lapinski? I did not like her but I know she went pro?
Evan Lysacheck is dating Nastia Lukin the Olympic gymnast. Well at least in 2010.
cool--so glad to hear of someone getting to go to Stars on Ice
I always loved to watch Scott Hamilton, too, and Todd Eldridge except he also could not get through an Olympics without falling, and Kristi Yamaguci, and Alexei Yagudin, and Michelle Kwan, and I didn't used to like Sasha Cohen but I do now.
Posted by Hambone (Member # 29535) on :
I love ice skating
I used to go to all of the Champions On Ice events when they came to my city.
I was VERY good at getting front row seats, and one time I was snapping a picture of Viktor Petrinko while he was skating, I caught his attention with the flash, and he came and sat on my lap!!!!!!
My favorites were Gordeeva and Grinkov. I cried like a baby when Sergi Grinkov died.
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