Thursday, February 18, 2010
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What a shame that there has to be this kind of nonsensical discussion about figure skating and that the silver medalist was such a poor sport that he felt he had to denigrate the gold medalist because - sneer, sneer - he's too artistic and not gung-ho athletic enough to attempt a quadruple jump (although he did seven triples and landed them all smoothly, more smoothly than the silver guy landed most of his doubles, triples and the revered quad), when it's patently self-evident that figure skating is hugely athletic (imagine the strength and endurance required to do axels and triples and doubles and spread-eagles, etc., etc.) as well as artistic (. . . and where on earth does anyone get off suggesting that artistry minimizes athleticism or do they want to make the same argument about gymnastics and synchronized swimming and even, in a way, dressage, because artistic expression in athletics in simply displaying prowess differently than less flat-out but no less actually).
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