What?!

What? What?!! How could I have lived so long without knowing how gorgeous figure skating could be? Irina Slutskaya's short program performance was absolutely astonishing; she was so powerful and alive. It blew me away completely! That really-young-American-girl's spins were fascinating, too - incredibly fast - but, whoa, Slutskaya. Now I'm sad that I missed all the ones before.

Seriously,though, so very gorgeous. I don't have the words for how watching that made me feel. Uplifted, maybe? Maybe. Regardless, Slutskaya needs to win. Go Russia!