Skates (was Re: corked bats)

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "abigailnus" 
<abigailnus at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy C." 
<cindysphynx at c...> wrote: 
> > And didn't Michelle Kwan get robbed of a gold medal by Tara 
> > Lipinski?  I was never happy with that result.
> 
> Yet another figure skating fan responds:
> 
> I'm sorry, but no she wasn't.  

> Abigail

I watch skating only during the Olympics, or between the Super Bowl 
and spring training, but Tara Lipinski outshone everyone on the ice 
in Salt Lake City.  She performed with joy and awe. If you want to 
keep a cumulative rankings for figure skating, as in tennis, that's 
fine, but don't cheat on the scores to give the favorites an 
undeserved medal.  If the favorite has a unusually bad night, 
the "them's the breaks".  On that night, the kid was the best in show.

Haggridd  (who feels compelled to point out that there are fourteen 
golf clubs allowed in the bag on the PGA tour, for whateve that's 
worth)