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Rgirl said:I'm still holding onto my prediction that Michelle will win the OGM, but man, it's going to be a nail biter, finger biter, hand, wrist, and arm biter.
Congratulations, Michelle, on making the Olympic team. Now go out there and show your stuff!:chorus: :chorus:
Rgirl
Rgirl, how you gonna type if you bite off all your appendages?
I don't doubt this. Sure, there are those that are jealous because their faves aren't getting the attention that MK is getting. But you see, there's more to it because I don't even have a favorite and some of this extreme behavior and "I told you so" attitude by some of Kwan's more rabid fans gets to me. So there are two groups in that sense.
Actually I think there are more than just two groups out there. See, I read a lot from Cohen extremist fans and Slutskaya extremist fans (though not as much there). To me, there are mainly two camps of extremist fans, Kwan and Cohen. I don't know why nor do I care really. In some cases I think a lot of the fans are very young and very intense. But then again I've run into some who are my age that make me roll my eyes. I do not like Cohen's skating. It leaves me cold in so many different ways. But I was happy for her when she won Nationals. I think her winning was overshadowed by the "will Kwan get the bye" in a sense and that upset some of her more extremist fans. I also think Kwan extremist fans put an asterisk next to Cohen's win because Kwan wasn't there.
If you look at figure skating fans in general, most aren't so fanatical about it. I am not a Kwaniac, Kwanatic, Cohenhead, or any other thing just because I have a favorite skater. And what's going to happen when they both retire? Will there then be the Meissnerites, Taylormades, Liangadores, Hughesettes and Czisnyatics? Or will the extremists leave figure skating fandom for good when Kwan and Cohen are gone? Almost makes ya go ...hhhhmmmmmmmm.......