Jeff,
You are really sounding like one crotchety old man. I’m no spring chicken, 41 this year, but I can at least remember what it was like to have a heart. No I was never an athlete at the level of these kids, perhaps you were, but I was an athlete in high school and I know what it takes to excel and what it is like when you don’t. From your first article on Michele Kwan to the blabbering about people falling on ice and how you think this is a medocre olympics.  To today’s again negative tyrade about Miller. I just stop reading now after the first paragraph and move on. You are clueless! The first day you ripped Michele Kwan – do you research your subjects? Do you even listen to the announcers. They say she is probably the best figure scater, ever. She has won more titles then anyone. She is an athlete and has an ego and if she felt there was a chance for her to get a gold after so many years she should try. Come on, be realistic – she wasn’t hurting anyone, really. Hughes is young and terrific and just glad to be there – she will shine in the next four years. And what Kwan did to step down was not egotistical, it was good and right. I’m not an eternal optimist lost in a panacea of happy thoughts – I was sad when Cohen fell and amazed that she won – but again I have to listen to you blubber about mediocrity when her scores were clearly higher in all but one of the categories – she dances with the grace of a ballerina not today’s obsession with more more more and perfection. Think about what she did do – so many people would give up after her start and fall – she only got better in the “long” program – it was truly amazing and maybe a turning point. I don’t watch these things year to year – only in the olympics. I have two daughters, though and they thought she and the other skaters were amazing – in the short and the long. I saw it in their eyes.
Finally, I don’t know if you noticed Ohno’s race yesterday but wouldn’t it be nice to write about his triumph over the rigors and challenges of that sport. Oh, and Hedrick’s rookie year – and his amazing wins of three medals. Ego and infighting aside, that’s all media hype – he had a great olympics and next time it will be even better. How about this – look for good, when you look for good everyone gets a little happier. Look for bad, you score some points with the synics but in the end everyone feels a little sadder. Maybe not every article but some try and look for good – opinions are like.. well you know the rest. We pay you for yours, how about mixing it up a bit.
