> I join you in sentimental sopdom Kakki... Make that a me three! Funny, I still dream of standing on that podium (although I think curling is about my only hope at this point...). Pardon me for sharing this, but I still recall winning a big sailing trophy and driving into the parking lot of the home sailing club, holding the trophy out the window for all to see. Gotta say, it was great! So I can only imagine...
> I was in tears watching Sasha Cohen oh, well, I'm not much of a Sasha fan - but then maybe I know too much... > again when Sarah Hughes skated the long program...& wonder of wonders got > the gold! I've been watching skating for about 40 years and I gotta say, the judges FINALLY did something right! (after *&#^$ing up royally the previous week. For those of you who wonder, the Canadians truly deserved to win. For the life of me, I (and everyone else I know who skates) can't understand what the commentators were talking about when they said the Russians' program was more difficult. Nope, sorry, not true. The programs were exactly equal - and the Canadian pair didn't make the mistake that the Russian pair did. End of story. btw, did any of you catch the pre-Closing ceremonies program on Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill? I still can't watch them dousing the flames from the 1961 crash without crying. I remember the crash - even though I was very young. Boston was the U.S. center for figure skating until that plane went down. And it's why I took lessons - as a direct result of the Memorial Fund. The SC of Boston has never and probably will never produce another champion. And we had so many... oh sigh lots of love Anne
