Johnny Weir Screwed Over Again; Lysacek Wins Gold

Johnny Weir skated another flawless program last night and, as one NBC commentator put it, "the door was open" for a medal after Japan's Daisuke Takahashi fell pretty spectacularly on his quad and followed that with other mistakes.  The judges slammed the door in Johnny's face.  As in the short program, they scored Johnny surprisingly low and he didn't budge from 6th place despite numerous mistakes by skaters scored more highly. 

Bronzed heterosexual Evan Lysacek, wearing a black costume with snakes instead of feathers, skated a strong, beautiful program and absolutely earned his gold medal.  He nailed all of his jumps despite the weight of his hair gel.

Russian Evgeni Plushenko won the silver and Takahashi maintained his bronze medal position. 

Here are some of my thoughts jotted down as the skating took place.

US National Champion Jeremy Abbot's performance wasn't the disaster his short program was, but he missed his quad, made other mistakes and the energy seemed to drain from him.  My heart goes out to the guy.  He looked anguished.

Football coach Tony Dunghy was in the audience and Scott Hamilton called him "an unbelievable man of quality."  Really Scott?  Have you read this?

Chan of Canada skated to Les Miz and Bel Amiesque Brezina of the Czech Republic skated to An American in Paris.  So much for butching up men's figure skating.   

Japan's Nobunari Oda had to stop in mid-performance because of his boot lace.  He was allowed to re-start.  Shades of Tonya Harding.

Handsome Stephane Lambiel of Switzerland "had no triple axel" according to Scott Hamilton.  Apparently this is a bad thing.  He was the silver medalist "in Torino."  Shouldn't Americans call it Turin?  Were the 1960 Olympics in Roma?  The '72 games in Muenchen? 

Scott Hamilton calls Johnny Weir a "free spirit."  I love all the euphemisms.  Johnny got shockingly low scores, but held his head high with a crown of roses.  He was true to himself every step of the way.  Great performance. 

Once again, the picture was blatantly stolen from Joe.My.God. 

Sorry for the lack of posts yesterday.  I was busy as a beaver at work and then dashed home to interview a home health care agency.  Then it was time for the Olympics.