SASHA COHEN...A STORY FOR THE AGES
In continuing our coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics from Torino, Italy, CleggThis has found little to report about on the positive level, that is, until last nights women's free skate. (CleggThis will give its readers a chance to laugh. Yes, I did watch it on TV.)
America's Sasha Cohen won a silver medal. CleggThis bets you are wondering why winning a silver medal is a story for the ages. The reason its a memorable story is Cohen had the lead going into last night's competition. For those of you not "in the know" about competitive figure skating, Cohen basically had to skate a flawless program in order to win gold. This is where the story of the ages comes into play.
At about :30 seconds into her routine, Cohen fell. So the 4 years fo trianing, getting up early, eating right, stressing over the pressure of Olympic victory, was all gone in :30 seconds. Now, most of us would have just given up, or at least realized that all of our hopes and dreams vanished once our fat asses hit the ice. But not Cohen, she continued on....and then fell again.....
Now the dream of gold vanish on the first fall, but with the second, the hopes of even getting a medal at all were more or less out the window. Again, Cohen fought on. In fact, from then on out, Cohen skated with more feeling and fire then anyone else that night, and for her efforts, they awarded her the silver. Part of me wants to believe the judges gave her that medal solely for the perseverance she showed in the face of failure.
In breaking with tradition, CleggThis says to you, Sasha Cohen, NOT AWFUL!!!!
posted by CleggoMyEggo at
9:50 AM
8 Comments:
She may have had a lead going in... but it was only by 0.03
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Anonymous, at February 24, 2006 1:15 PM
Even still, she had the lead. If Sasha has landed those jumps perfectly, she would have won the gold. No doubt about it.
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CleggoMyEggo, at February 24, 2006 4:13 PM
Win, lose or draw, Sasha's still number one in my book.
[ home.comcast.net/~highway29/sasha.jpg ]
Unfortunately, blogspot won't let me link directly.
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Elliott, at February 27, 2006 4:40 PM
Thank you Somms for posting the best comment ever received by CleggThis.
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CleggoMyEggo, at February 27, 2006 4:47 PM
Young Barry, up till now I have choose not to respond to your bloogs for verious reasons. But because I have let your ranting and raveing go to far, I now feel the need to respond. I believe life and the world are only as bad as you make it. Sure there are things that are awful, genocide, militant islam, and 80% of the policies of the Bush administration; but that does not mean that everything is awful or everything diserves to be spoken negativally about. Why don't you use this blogg to turn the tide of the current trend of focusing on everthing that is negative.
If you really want to be different and realy want to be bold talk about the positives in this world. For example if you want to speak about Marino talk about the good he has done for autistic childern. If you want to speak about the Big Dig, talk about the good it has done for Boston and will do in the fueture for Boston. Remember, life is only as bad as you make it.
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Anonymous, at March 02, 2006 4:12 PM
yes... thank you, Somms. Best comment ever.
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Anonymous, at March 02, 2006 8:57 PM
EVIL JOHN SEZ:
anonymous is right. be more positive... about things like typing classes and spell check!
EVIL JOHN OUT!
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Anonymous, at March 03, 2006 7:04 PM
To anonymous (and evil jon) I always speel chck,. Adn fi u cant handl t, thn thatt aintt my falt.
As far as positivity goes, neither Marino or the Big Dig has anything positive about it. Not even Bill O'Reilly could spin those to the positive spectrum. Its also funny that you chose to write that comment in the one blog that was full positivity. (paste [home.comcast.net/~highway29/sasha.jpg] to know what I am talking about.) Also, there is something to be said about picking up on sarcasm. I never chose to or had ambitions to change the world.
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CleggoMyEggo, at March 04, 2006 4:50 PM
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