Adam Rippon.

[TomSlick]

Wow - just wow!

[Roland99]

1. Poetry

Pure poetry

[TomSlick]

2. I know nothing about the technical aspects of the sport.

But that was simply beautiful. I was spellbound.

[Roland99]

4. Glad he opted out of the quad toe move. Esp after watching this next skater.

[babylonsister]

3. Why should I care? Who is he? nt

[TomSlick]

5. American male figure skater.

The one Pence and mother hate so.

[Ohiogal]

12. I hope

Everywhere Pence and Mother go they are shunned.

They have the honor and the privilege of representing our country at these Games and so far they have acted like classless dopes. I wish they'd stayed home.

[3catwoman3]

26. Small correction - they are not...

...acting like classless dopes. They ARE classless dopes

[dchill]

57. Yeah. They'd be terrible actors, too.

It's all too real.

[smirkymonkey]

59. Why on earth were they sent to represent us? Other than Fat Nixon and his family, I can't think of

anyone less appropriate to be an American ambassador abroad. It's now blowing up in our faces as his lack of graciousness and decorum are glaringly obvious to the entire world.

[Roland99]

6. Olympic figure skater. Been telling Mike Pence off, essentially.

Put his money where his mouth was with a beautiful performance.

[Ohiogal]

11. Pence

Isn't fit to carry Rippon's lunch bucket.

Our vice president disparaging one of our best Olympic athletes ... Pence is a POS for sure.

[MadDAsHell]

30. Actually, Rippon asked people to leave the politics at home. He just wanted to skate. nt

[RestoreAmerica2020]

43. Did racist, bigot fake christian applaud his performance?

[Roland99]

44. Doubt he is still there. If he is, he was not shown nor discussed

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Figure skater

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

9. First openly gay figure skater.

He’s amazing!

[MadDAsHell]

35. Uh what? Weir has been out for like 7 years. nt

[Staph]

40. But Johnny was not formally out

until after his competitive years. Adam Rippon is supposedly the first Olympic athlete who is out while competing at the Olympics.

[LisaL]

53. Did he really need to be "formally" out?

[MadDAsHell]

64. Youre right, Weird was still competing but his peak was definitely past. nt

[babylonsister]

10. Thank you all!!! nt

[Leghorn21]

18. Adam Rippon - Pences worst nightmare, as it happily turns out!!!

[hvn_nbr_2]

42. I've given up on ...

threads that don't tell me what they're talking about. I don't even ask anymore. Somebody else will post another thread that tells me what they're talking about.

[Ohiogal]

8. He was awesome!

[bluestarone]

33. yes he was AWESOME

[eissa]

13. Please help me with this

I’m one of those who only watches skating during the Olympics, so I know I don’t understand the rules, BUT....Rippon was flawless! I was spellbound during his routine. How did Chan (the Canadian skater who fell several times) earn more points than he did?

[TomSlick]

16. Yeah, I got nothing.

As I say, I don't understand the technical aspects of the sport. Despite what the announcers are telling us, it all seems pretty subjective.

Nevertheless, it was beautiful. It was inspired. It was a young man giving it everything he has.

[dsc]

17. Rippon does fewer quad jumps which are rich in points

[LisaL]

52. Fewer? I don't think he did any.

[dsc]

55. I hadn't seen his skate

He has one that he tries some times.

[LisaL]

56. I guess he decided not to, in order to get a clean routine.

So the base value without quad jumps was much lower. The other two fell, but they still got points.

[Bradical79]

45. Degree of difficulty

It was talked about at one point where doing a high difficulty technique with a botched landing gets more points than the lower difficulty techniques. Rippon and some others left out their biggest jumps for team competition.

He should have gotten at least 2nd place though due to how close his technical score was to that Russian guy. The artistic portion of the score should have easily put him up. It doesn't really matter with how the team points system had placed them, but still... c'mon.

[LisaL]

58. Because Canadian skater's routine was more difficult.

He was doing quadruple jumps (four revolutions). Even if he falls after the jump, he still gets point for doing that jump.

[iamateacher]

14. It was the most beautiful artistic routine

Fly eagle, fly....

[FloridaBlues]

15. Excellent performance, surprised he didn't go onto 1st place

[a kennedy]

19. How the hell did the Canadian skater fall twice and get 3 red squares

AND IS IN FIRST PLACE??? There is something not right in these judges. I am so pissed......Adam is 3rd, 3rd!!

[onecaliberal]

25. Agree. Especially after watching yesterday. Judging is not fair

[bluestarone]

34. i also agree

HE got robbed

[LisaL]

50. Skaters still get points for jumps even if they fall.

They just get deductions. Maybe deduction should be bigger.

[Leghorn21]

20. Now trending at #1!

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%22Adam+Rippon%22

Link to tweet

?s=20

[erpowers]

21. He Was Great

I was hoping he would have a good performance.

[tavernier]

22. I am so glad you posted this!!!

Wasn’t he amazing??
WOW.

[ellie]

23. I know!

He was magnificent!

[mcar]

24. How did they give the Russian guy higher scores?

Rippon was flawless.

[LisaM]

49. Tara and Johnny agree with you.

It was razor close but I think they underscored him on the artistic element.

[mcar]

60. I saw their report

He should have gotten way better artistic points. The Russian guy was blah.

I get why Chan, the Canadian, did better despite falling. His quads were amazing. But the Russian guy was just men.

[underpants]

51. How did the Canadian, Chan, right after him get a higher score?

Chan fell down once and touched the ice another time. I turned it off after that.

ICE skating is way to subjective and staged.

[LisaL]

54. Much higher difficulty.

Even if skater falls, they still get points for attempt. Just not as much as if the jump was clean.

[underpants]

62. Well not to my eye

Rippon's routine was much more athletic and at least as stylistic as Chan's.

[LisaM]

63. More stylistic, but the degree of difficult was much lower.

I was trying to think of a comparison - the closest I could come to was the two and three point shots in basketball. Giving the same score for two different jumps would be like allowing only two points for a shot from half court.

[DinahMoeHum]

27. Dave Zirin's take on Adam Rippon and Mike Pence

http://www.edgeofsports.com/2018-01-19-1322/index.html

[Roland99]

28. Nagasu!! WOW!!!

[Lotusflower70]

29. I absolutely love him

He is so awesome. What an amazing performance.

[Kirk Lover]

31. Just WOW. I was in the middle of cleaning my fish tanks and didn't realize he came on so I just

missed a few seconds but boy was I mesmerized right in my spot...didn't even sit down. Stood right there and watched every second. And I said right out loud...this is America. This man is America and he's AWESOME! Fuck you Pence.

If my apartment is bugged they're dragging me out in a straight jacket, I've never talked to myself so much since this prick stole the office.

[TomSlick]

32. Don't worry. I bet a lot of us were talking to ourselves.

That or holding our breath.

Live long and prosper.

[Kirk Lover]

36. Actually on second thought....when they come to wheel me out and they examine

the content of my outbursts...they'll see what I've been saying has been spot on, albeit laced with profanities.

[Kirk Lover]

37. And he's from CLARKS SUMMIT, PA...so shout out to Lackawanna County!!! Xoxoxooxo

[Ohiogal]

39. Shout out back atcha from NE Ohio!

Rippon was MAGNIFICENT

and Pence can eat shit.

[mcar]

61. My old stomping grounds!

[TomSlick]

38. Then he gives an interview.

He's articulate and intelligent. He's just proud to represent his team and the United States.

OK, now I'm allowed to be chauvinistic. He makes me proud to be an American.

[Lifelong Protester]

41. He was awesome! And I know nothing of figure-skating.

So I decided just to enjoy it. He was awe inspiring.

[Retrograde]

46. On the Retrograde scale

he lost points for being overly sequins-ed, but I thought he paid more attention to the music than the Russian and Italian - and he didn't actually fall down, which gets points in my world.

That's my problem with judged events - it often comes down to the judges' prejudices (and I say this as someone who has spent a lot of time assisting county fair judges - in the end, it comes down to "I like this one better&quot

[TomSlick]

47. I don't do sequins. As I've said above, I know next to nothing about skating.

I do know music. Rippon expressed the music and made you "feel" the music. It was all just too beautiful.

[LisaM]

48. It was his life story unfolding on the ice.

There was a lot of good skating tonight. I thoroughly enjoyed it.