[HPFGU-OTChatter] work, perform, win/quit, sue, kill.... welcome to the olympics

[Terry van Ettinger]

I agree wholeheartedly with you there.  When I heard your message last night
on net-by-phone, I wanted to reply, but didn't want to bombard you with an
all-uppercase message (net-by-phone hasn't developed case distinctions yet),
and to try to use my PC at the time would have destroyed what I was doing on
my CD burner, so now I finally get to respond.  '-)  People really need to
learn to take a loss when they get it, and use it to decide what they could
do better in the future, and if a ruling does need to be contested, it ought
to be done in a sensible, calm, fair fashion.  Threatening one's opponents
or bringing up a lawsuit isn't the way to win friends and influence people.
If anything, it's a very good way to alienate people who might, having heard
both sides of a situation, have been willing to take a second look.  But
yes, Sarah's performance was just fascinating!  I called my mom and was
talking to her when they gave the marks.  And then when it came down to that
3-way tie..............I just sat there waiting for the decision...then
called back again!  That was *really* something!  Especially considering she
came out of 4th place in the short program!  I love it when they do that; I
think you and I look for a lot of the same things in olympic competition.
My favorite parts, just like you said, are the parts where the less-likely
candidate gets up there and just gives it everything they've got, and makes
the veterans just kind of step back.

Terry
----- > I just had the best time watching Sarah Hughes surprise even herself
> to win the Gold medal!  By the end of her program I was on my feet in
> my livingroom bouncing up and down and cheering like an idiot - it
> was, literally, the most beautiful program I've ever seen in women's
> singles skating, in large part because of her obvious joy throughout
> the program.  I immediately called my mom to say "yippee that was
> fun!", and then I held my breath through the rest of it trying to
> decide what I wanted to see happen.  Then after it was all over I
> called my sister and said "Yippee" again (we're all fanatics).  That
> kind of thing is the whole reason I watch the olympics.  Like
> watching Simon Aman win the ski jumping competitions - to see someone
> emerge as the best in the world is really an amazing thing, and extra
> fun when even they don't expect it.
<Snip>
So contest the ruling,
> fine, but sue the ref?  Kill the other skater?  Whatever.
>
> Some people know how to take all the fun out of things.
>
> kimberly
> Too thrilled for Sarah Hughes to care about fools who can't contest a
> ruling without throwing a tantrum.
>
>
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