I have lost so much sleep these past couple weeks from watching all of the live skating! I’ve been continually been telling all my friends at school to watch! I love seeing the sport and skaters get such great recognition.

Congratulations to Evan Lysacek on winning a gold medal for the USA! Also, to Johnny Weir for skating two clean programs–his long program in particular was one of my favorite Olympic programs.

I was really inspired by so many of the athletes…the strength of Joannie Rochette to skate to a bronze medal in her home country a few days after her mother’s death has been undoubtedly the most courageous Olympic moment. It was great to see the support and compassion that the media, audience, etc respected her with.

I thought Yu-Na Kim was flawless! It was great to see her reaction after two clean programs. Rachael and Mirai were awesome–as were Mao’s 3 triple axels (short and long combined)!! I feel like the top 7 or so performances were worthy of Olympic medals.

Seeing Shen and Zhao receive their Olympic Gold Medals was great–they have completed dozens of gold medal performances over the years, so this was a perfect way to finish a career for them. Both US teams were great! Amanda Evora learned to skate at Fairfax Ice Arena, my home rink–represent! haha

As for Ice Dance, I thought Tessa and Scott’s flamenco original dance was amazing. Congrats to Meryl and Charlie on a silver medal performance–this was another event with more than one gold medal worthy performance. Maybe I’m impartial, but I thought all three US teams skated particularly well haha I roomed with Evan Bates when he and his partner Emily won Jr Worlds, so to see them skate clean was great!

All in all, this Olympics definitely lived up to expectations and left me feeling really inspired (as you can probably tell)!!

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