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Because SKATING.
You guys. This is Sarah Meier, Swiss figure skater. In the final competition of her career, the European Championships in Switzerland, her only competition this season, she skates perfectly in the free skate and wins her first gold. I can't even. She was STUNNING. I can't even fathom the kind of mental strength it would take to go out last in your last competition in your home country and not fall (when everyone else did) and skate so well.
Watching her wait for her points was absolutely--I can't even. Then they came and she didn't realize until she saw the actual "1" on the screen that she had won. Cue jumping and crying and beaming ♥.
And then afterward there was an adorable "interview" with her and Stephane Lambiel where he's teary-eyed and hugging her with one arm and saying, "Before you went in you told me you were going to die because you were so nervous! You didn't die! You won the gold!" and she's just shaking her head and trying to articulate what I'm pretty sure is impossible to articulate. ETA: Which is here!
( and here is her program! )
Oh, I'm so happy right now. SKATING.
ETA: or rather, let's file this entry under awesome ladies/winter sports fandom, yes. That one I can claim to be in. (♥,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thesamefire.)
You guys. This is Sarah Meier, Swiss figure skater. In the final competition of her career, the European Championships in Switzerland, her only competition this season, she skates perfectly in the free skate and wins her first gold. I can't even. She was STUNNING. I can't even fathom the kind of mental strength it would take to go out last in your last competition in your home country and not fall (when everyone else did) and skate so well.
Watching her wait for her points was absolutely--I can't even. Then they came and she didn't realize until she saw the actual "1" on the screen that she had won. Cue jumping and crying and beaming ♥.
And then afterward there was an adorable "interview" with her and Stephane Lambiel where he's teary-eyed and hugging her with one arm and saying, "Before you went in you told me you were going to die because you were so nervous! You didn't die! You won the gold!" and she's just shaking her head and trying to articulate what I'm pretty sure is impossible to articulate. ETA: Which is here!
( and here is her program! )
Oh, I'm so happy right now. SKATING.
ETA: or rather, let's file this entry under awesome ladies/winter sports fandom, yes. That one I can claim to be in. (♥,
thesamefire.)
