Who Was Your Favorite 2010 Winter Olympic Athlete?

Is that avatar really you or Jenny McCarthy from a certain angle?

 

Zach Parise is a god damn American hero.

 

That is a different Apolo. I am talking about Apollo Ono the Lithuanian Luger.

 

Seriously?

 

The American men who finished 1-2 in Nordic combined. They schooled that Austrian who was trying to beat them, and they seem like good guys.

 

Hard to pick one favorite, but among the women, I liked Hannah Kearney, Mirai Nagasu, Kim Yu-Na and Maria Riesch. Of the men, Shaun White (who is so light years ahead of everyone else in his sport, he may be winning gold medals until he's 40), Evan Lysacek (spray tan and all) Johnny Weir, Ryan Miller, the entire US Nordic Combined crew, Alex Bilodeau and Steve Holcomb. Special mention to Shen and Zhao (who doesn't like a good love story?), Tessa Virtue and Scotty Moir, and Meryl Davis and Charlie White.

Also? LOVED the mascots. Seriously.

 

Evan Lysacek. He handled all of the backlash from Evgeny Plushenko with such grace.

Otherwise, Joannie Rochette. It got a bit dusty in here during her short program.

 

Scott Moir and Tessa (The Lost Deschenel Sister) Virtue for the gold, Julia Mancuso for the silver (twice) and the amazing Joannie Rochette for the bronze.

 

Pleschenko (sic) or getting all in a twist over an event where the entire basis of scoring is subjective. So, Yevgeny, you're shocked when there's controversy over a point total that's just picked out at random? Really?

The U.S. nordic combined and four-man bobsled teams, for ground-breaking gold medal performances. Note to Yevgeny: time is a tangible way to score events. If you don't want to feel cheated, switch to such an event.

The Switzerland women's curling team's vice skip, for just being her sexy self. Yowza. Note to Yevgeny: even curling has the goofy measuring stick to measure shots, which is, you guessed it, still a more tangible way to determine a winner than your event.

 

Male - Jon Montgomery

Female - Joannie Rochette

 

Male - Ryan Miller, Evan Lysacek and Apolo Anton Ohno.

Female - Julia Mancuso and Joannie Rochette.

 

Forgive hondo. He's autistic.

I would go with Shaun White with the guys. Seems really grounded for someone at the top of his sport.

Julia Mancuso and Joannie Rochette for the women. I liked how Julie just grinded her teeth over the Lindsey lovevest and went to work.