Thursday, February 23, 2006
Note to self: don't watch relay speed skating with migraine!
Ewwwww. It's hard enough to keep track of what's going on when in a good frame of mind. In short track relay, four teams skate at once and tag by pushing their teammate. Then the people who are going to be next skate in the inside of the track to get in position. There were too many bodies moving at once. I don't even remember who won the women's race I saw tonight, because there was a disqualification. I think the US took fifth??
Easier to follow, and far more entertaining in my book was the women's freestyle aerials. You ski downhill and then up a ramp wearing skis but using no poles, do the most elaborate stunts you can while in the air, and land on the skis rather than on your ass or your face. Easy, right?? Not when you're about five stories in the air twisting and turning and trying to figure out how to finish right side up. Do any of these women have any cartilage left in their knees when their career is over? Australian Alisa Camplin would probably have to answer that in the negative. She had knee surgery just four months ago and was elated to take the bronze with a good jump and reasonably clean landing in the final run. There were three Chinese women in the finals that I saw. Unfortunately, the leader in the first round, Guo Xinxin, did a face plant on her last jump, which knocked her out of medal contention. But her teammate, Li Nina, did manage a silver medal despite back problems. The best jump on the final run that I saw belonged to Swiss Evelyne Leu: a triple backflip with three twists. It earned her the gold. Sweeeet.
Took a nap after aquacise today for three hours, which means I slept a total of 11 hours today. And still I'm exhausted. I think it's all the toxins released during yesterday's massage. Sheesh.
Yawn.
Easier to follow, and far more entertaining in my book was the women's freestyle aerials. You ski downhill and then up a ramp wearing skis but using no poles, do the most elaborate stunts you can while in the air, and land on the skis rather than on your ass or your face. Easy, right?? Not when you're about five stories in the air twisting and turning and trying to figure out how to finish right side up. Do any of these women have any cartilage left in their knees when their career is over? Australian Alisa Camplin would probably have to answer that in the negative. She had knee surgery just four months ago and was elated to take the bronze with a good jump and reasonably clean landing in the final run. There were three Chinese women in the finals that I saw. Unfortunately, the leader in the first round, Guo Xinxin, did a face plant on her last jump, which knocked her out of medal contention. But her teammate, Li Nina, did manage a silver medal despite back problems. The best jump on the final run that I saw belonged to Swiss Evelyne Leu: a triple backflip with three twists. It earned her the gold. Sweeeet.
Took a nap after aquacise today for three hours, which means I slept a total of 11 hours today. And still I'm exhausted. I think it's all the toxins released during yesterday's massage. Sheesh.
Yawn.
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