So I didn’t watch the minimovies today. If they’re still around, maybe I’ll watch them later. Like, maybe much later. I saw the Men’s Big Air Qualifying Rounds instead (did I capitalize that right? IDK). Then I watched the 7 “Road to Milan Cortina 2026” specials. I think I made the right choice. The minimovies can be watched at any time, the specials beg to be watched before the opening ceremony tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stuff I gleaned: It seems that Mikaela Shiffrin has won over 100 (!!!) World Cup titles in her career, an unbelievably staggering number. I had no idea. You would think this would be common knowledge, especially in her home country, but no. Ugh. Jeebus. I believe this would be the perfect time and place for a rant about the tyranny of the typical ‘Murican professional sports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Look, I’ve done that stuff before, I’m not going to do it again, and everyone who reads this has surely thought along similar lines at points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few months ago I was pleasantly surprised to see Katie Ledecky in a TV commercial. It was then that I knew that Olympics season was around the corner, because… why else would a swimmer- even the unquestioned world’s best, be in a commercial? It’s kind of sad, honestly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the winter I joined the local health club and I would spend hours in the pool, just… swimming. Not vigorously, lol. But for fun. It was glorious. What a fantastic way to spend a Sunday afternoon! Sometimes I would take aquatherapy classes. Also fun, lol. When I would leave the pool and go to my locker to change, I would pass by the locker room TV, which was there, I guess, to blare the requisite distraction to hurry everyone along. ALWAYS, without fail, it was showing a football game. I always wondered what football had to do with swimming pools. It just seemed… so odd<\/em>. So out of place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I mean this is… off of the subject at hand, I guess, but… is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I mean she was featured a bit in these segments, so…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seriously tho, it’s all very strange, isn’t it? Why is it that the world’s greatest athletes are all virtually unknown in the public in our supposedly sports- crazed culture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe it’s just an American thing. Perhaps the culture is different in other nations; I wouldn’t know. I suspect \/ hope that it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I found the segment about the Team USA Gymnastics training camp really interesting. Obviously curated but it needed to be so I suppose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to the sport culture- the skating lineup for the USA is stacked for sure. Ilia Malinin the “Quad God” is obviously on another level with his actual Vampire-on-ice routine. He almost \/ actually flies. One might say that he’s been learning from me, somehow, on some magnetic or quantum level. Honestly, he might or even could probably be; I wouldn’t put it past some of these people, especially the top level guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For real tho: his routines are literally, weirdly, the routines that I would come up with if I were to combine all of the best ideas and energies I’ve harvested from previous Olympics and skating athletes, going ALLLLLL the way back to Elvis Stojko (!!!!). I mean we are talking A LOT of stuff, tossed into an all-encompassing melting pot here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n But that would obviously be preposterous of course, so…<\/p>\n\n\n\n But again- why is the man who is by far the world’s greatest athlete in his sport- if not perhaps the greatest overall athlete in the entire world<\/em>– a virtual unknown in his own country, a country that is supposedly “sports crazed”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I mean, the mind boggles at this. It is utterly absurd. Someone like this should need no introduction to the general public before<\/em> the Olympics, let alone during<\/em> them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I maintain that sports leagues like the NFL have a place in society, and that they absolutely belong, but they have been put on too high a pedestal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well… there you go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I suppose the blogging cobwebs are falling off lol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I didn’t watch the minimovies today. If they’re still around, maybe I’ll watch them later. Like, maybe much later. I saw the Men’s Big Air Qualifying Rounds instead (did I capitalize that right? IDK). Then I watched the 7 “Road to Milan Cortina 2026” specials. I think I made the right choice. The minimovies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}