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Skating Moments #8
May. 7th, 2012 09:45 pmContinuing the theme of Olympic Moments with a capital M...
Silvia Fontana's Long Program at the 2006 Olympics
I'll have to be honest here, I have long had a love for Silvia Fontana. I find her sweet and charming, so sweet and charming in fact that I can overlook her wrapped free leg that I would normally find horrendous and a deal breaker. She is married to the ever so lovely John Zimmerman, and I heartily recommend to anyone who hasn't seen his ep of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy that you hunt it down. So much adorable between the two of them, I simply cannot cope.
Silvia retired before the 2006 Olympics (I want to say after 2003 worlds but I may be wrong on that.) but since the Olympics that year were held in Torino, Italy, she decided to come back. After the short, it may have been not the right decision; she was in tears in kiss and cry, barely qualified for the free and skated first that night.
And it was magic.
No, the jumps weren't all there, but what she did, she did. The crowd, knowing her, knowing her story, were behind her a million percent. And at the end? They erupted.
Not a dry eye in the house, or here.
And, just in case you thought it was just me, the text from an article written at the time that I linked in my LJ...( For Love of Country )
Silvia Fontana's Long Program at the 2006 Olympics
I'll have to be honest here, I have long had a love for Silvia Fontana. I find her sweet and charming, so sweet and charming in fact that I can overlook her wrapped free leg that I would normally find horrendous and a deal breaker. She is married to the ever so lovely John Zimmerman, and I heartily recommend to anyone who hasn't seen his ep of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy that you hunt it down. So much adorable between the two of them, I simply cannot cope.
Silvia retired before the 2006 Olympics (I want to say after 2003 worlds but I may be wrong on that.) but since the Olympics that year were held in Torino, Italy, she decided to come back. After the short, it may have been not the right decision; she was in tears in kiss and cry, barely qualified for the free and skated first that night.
And it was magic.
No, the jumps weren't all there, but what she did, she did. The crowd, knowing her, knowing her story, were behind her a million percent. And at the end? They erupted.
Not a dry eye in the house, or here.
And, just in case you thought it was just me, the text from an article written at the time that I linked in my LJ...( For Love of Country )
