It would be easy to comment on Bryant Gumbel's latest inanity on the 2006 Winter Olympics, but I prefer to focus on something which the games are all about, namely Zhang Dan. She and her partner were in second place and within shot of gold when she took a bad spill while attempting a risky quadruple whatchamacallit. The routine had to be stopped and there was doubt whether she could continue- it was an ugly fall, one that even Gerald Ford would have envied.
She caught her breath, walked (skated?) it off, resumed the routine, and performed brilliantly, strained knee ligament and all. It was good enough for them to hang on for the Silver. That comeback took some real heart, and I'm glad Ann TiVo'd the whole thing. The Russian pair which took Gold also recovered from a horrific fall, but theirs was last year and they had more than just a few moments to bounce back. Today, everyone is talking about the pair who won the Silver because of Zhang Dan's courage.
I had never seen Real Sports until last week's episode, and I didn't know anything about Gumbel.
And then he said those comments about the Winter Olympics. I agreed with all of it (they are a waste of time) until he said something about the GOP not having nay blacks in it or some other non sequitur. Here I was, interested to hear someone (for once) speak intelligently about sports and then he shoots himself in the foot by saying something inane and irrelevant about blacks in the GOP?
What an idiot. What's the connection?
Posted by: Dave | February 17, 2006 at 11:46 AM
Bryant Gumbel is only as good as his parodies on Family Guy.
I'm sorry I missed that event. These games haven't kept my interest, so I haven't been watching. But that sounded like a good one to see.
Posted by: Portia | February 17, 2006 at 02:44 PM