[codebreaker]

Man I'm glad I didn't see this, I would have had to turn off the TV

[Clemenza]

Sickening. THe media was rooting for Michelle Kwan to get the Gold, but she fell on her a-s instead.

[Frumanchu]

I must say that Sarah Hughes absolutely deserved the Gold Medal she won last night. Her long program and Sasha Cohen's short program were the highlights of Olympic skating for me. As a fan of the sport, I was a little disappointed and sorry for Michelle not realizing her dream of a Gold. She's a phenomenal skater with a fantastic career. I still think she should have taken the Gold four years ago, but that judgement was not in my hands.

I think the plastic replica was just a sign of affection and respect, not a commentary stating she should have won the Gold. It's like when you lose something irreplacable and are very upset, and then your 5-year-old comes up and hands you a crude replica of whatever you lost made out of construction paper:)

[Dog Gone]

Peggy Fleming or Dorothy Hamill?

[Phantom Lord]

Hey Kwan, you LOST! Get over it.

[Grim]

I have never been so inspired by an athelete as I was watching Sarah Hughes last night. She was simply supernatural and deserved the Gold without a doubt.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Just to show that I am at LEAST as compasionate, if not more compasionate than Dorthy I am willing to give my actual, not a REPLICA mind you, my actual 1971 Boy Scout Pinewood Derby trophy to Michelle.

Note to the press: Please feel to take interview questions and answers from this FR forum. Thank you...

[codebreaker]

Did you see this on the late West Coast feed?

[codebreaker]

Ping

[OKSooner]

No, it was whatsername, Dorothy Hamill who gave her the plastic medal. Actually, I think Dorothy gave her the plastic Gold Medal as an insult, one that Michelle would be the last one to figure out. As in, "here's your gold medal..."

[all4one]

Just another case of the liberal upbringing of many children these days. Everyone wins, no one is ever really a loser, no one is more skilled than anyone else, we all always win so no one feels bad, protect a child's fragile psyche at all costs.

When children are raised in this liberal bubble they become ungracious, self-serving adults.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose...no matter what the media has been proclaiming for days.

[SmartBlonde]

I have a little different take on Kwan. I think she's always been overrated, particularly regarding the difficulty of her program compared to others.

She also can't handle the pressure. The excuse is always that she's young - well, Tara Limpinski was young, too, but outskated Kwan 4 years ago. And I think the media support has nothing to do with her being Asian - it's more that she's deserving because she has seniority.

[Rebelbase]

Bye-bye Wheaties.

[gjenkins]

Sarah Hughs skated well enough that she should have won despite being fourth in the short program. The russian didn't skate well enough to be second which would have given the Gold to Michelle Kwan, but Sarah got gold which IMO she deserved.

[HamiltonJay]

Ms Hughes clearly won the long program last night, no one else even came close... the long program counts for 2/3 of your overall score. She was in 4th after short, and 1st in long.. I am still not sure how the judging worked that she won first, though she undoubtably did the best long program.. no one was even close.

Either way, good for Ms. Hughes, congratulations.

[TADSLOS]

This just in: Terry Bradshaw to provide the Rams with brass replicas of his Super Bowl Championship rings...

[Physicist]

I can just picture it. "Here's a little reminder of what I have that you'll never had. I had it made up ahead of time because I knew you'd blow it."

[Cold Heat]

This is the direct result of being your own coach.

[Slyfox]

What Michelle ought to do is retire from amateur ice skating, go to college, get a bachelor's, get married and then enter professional skating. People love to see her skate and if she could put some distance between her and the gold medal she might be better off.

[skeeter]

Bottom line - its about charisma. It has nothing to do with race, or being a 'nice' person.

Lipinski, Yamaguchi, Witt, Hughes, etc. all have it. Kwan does not.

It may not be fair, its just the way it is.

[Revolting cat!]

I must admit that I couldn't decide on my favourite girl skater among the Americans. I kinda liked the Cohen girl after the first night, but I couldn't admit it for fear of being labeled racist anti-Asian-anti-American. So I thought, I'd go with the Kwan chick, but then of course I'd be labeled anti-semitic. And since the Hughes chick was a honkie, there was no question of giving her support. In the end, I decided the prudent thing to do would be to abstain which is what I did. (Is this why the honkie ended up winning, you think? Sorry.)