Olympic women spun, leaped, and flying cameled their way to the figure skating podium last night, but with all those plunging backs and necklines (not to mention visible nipples) all I could think was, Where does the bra go? More »
During last night’s short program, Tom Hammond noted that an American woman has made the figure skating podium every Olympics since Peggy Fleming. This year, that streak might be broken. That sort of…
Mean old figure-skater Evgeni Plushenko didn’t win the silver in Vancouver. He won the platinum.
We finally figured out why the Russian ice dancers thought they could get away with their brownface “Aboriginal Dance” routine: This year, everyone did racial drag. Americans in bindi. Germans in…
Oh last night was a corker. The girls snowboarded and Julia Mancuso continued her silver rush, but mostly men twirled around on ice and we all clapped and swooned. Now that it’s over, we’re worried….
Though Olympic fashion continues to revolve around flags and garish patriotic color, a strange undercurrent of hip infiltrated this year: jeggings-esque faux denim, a surfeit of plaid, and the…
Biden’s motorcade was in yet another accident late Sunday, this time in Vancouver. Skating champ Peggy Fleming and bobsled star Vonetta Flowers sustained “minor injuries.” From now on, let’s just…
So the Vancouver Winter Olympics start tonight, and, awful incidents aside, I am pretty fucking excited. What’s that? The Winter games suck? Can’t hold a candle to the Summer? Well, Nancy Naysayer, I…
NYT Magazine recently probed the psyche of YouTube’s falling figure skater meme, and a commenter pointed us to hobby animators’ CGI snuff films. Among a cornucopia of cyber-Schadenfreude, which…
Be Good Johnny Weir, a peculiarly thoughtful new documentary series about be-spangled Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir, premiered on the Sundance Channel last night and we gave it a watch. And you…