Many were furious at figure skating's suspicious judging yesterday. But another great competitor was shut out of a medal entirely: Will Ferrell, who did an entire Downton Abbey routine in a skintight butler costume on Tonight yesterday.
L'Equipe, a French sports magazine, published a story this weekend quoting an anonymous Russian coach who claims the Olympics are fixed and America and Russia bargained for the figure skating medals ahead of time.
[French figure skater Mae Berenice Meite performs during the gala exhibition of the Ice Skating Bompard Trophy at Bercy arena in Paris. Photo via AP.]
Stars on Ice denies it, but Johnny is so over them, anyway. He might even start a rival showcase, with Lady Gaga. It's cute how he thinks if he says her name enough, she'll pull a Tinkerbell and magically appear.
That would be impressive. GLAAD says the Lady Gaga-loving Olympian was excluded from the money-raking figure skating tour because he is "not family friendly."
Former figure skating gold medal winner and commentator Scott Hamilton gets...excited during tense triple axel, double toe-loop combinations. And now that figure skating is over, he's finally spent. Spent and satisfied. And boy does he need a smoke.
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?
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 ruins the Olympics, doesn't it?
Women's figure skating began tonight in Vancouver with NBC's live coverage of the Olympic short program. American skater Mirai Nagasu's routine went swimmingly (ha), but she ended it with a visibly bloody nose. What caused it? Inside, an in-depth investigation.
Mean old figure-skater Evgeni Plushenko didn't win the silver in Vancouver. He won the platinum.
Back in 1998, Scott Williams did an incredibly embarrassing figure skating routine set to Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' Sorry, Kurt. It will always be too soon for this.
Today at Gawker.TV, The Simpsons rewrite Black History Month, Kourtney Kardashian's eccentric birthing methods, the gross-out factor of brother/sister ice dancing teams, The Cleveland Show's catchy theme song, and Jay Leno's new promo gets a revamp featuring Radiohead's "Creep."
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 grass skirts. French cowboys, kimonos, "Hava Nagila," oh my!
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. Was it the best event?
On Monday, we brought you a video of the mistakes made during the pairs figure skating routines at the Olympics. Tonight, the men went solo, and—shocker!—they fell on their asses, too. Inside, a compilation of all the flubs.
Oh, Johnny. Dear, dear Johnny Weir. You just skated the routine of your life at the Olympics. It was fabulous, as always. Flawless, too. And even though the judges screwed you, we won't forget how great you were. Video, inside.
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 world's most ironic mustache.
Heyyyyy! Guess who just skated a fabulous, flawless and fierce-as-hell short program at the Olympics? And did so in a deep V-neck/slim black pant outfit with sequins and pink tassels, to boot? Johnny Weir did, honey! Also: Poker Face dancing.
Tonight, Russia's 50-year-long domination of Olympic pairs figure skating ended as China took home gold. The best thing about the evening's coverage, though, was the MASSIVE amount of on-ice failure. Inside, a video montage of the best of the worst.
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 roll him around in a wad of bubble wrap. [NYT]
