The human race never seems so inspiring as when those Olympic figure skaters step out onto the ice.
Yesterday's women's freeskate and finals may have been the best ever. Skaters scored multiple best-ever in their lifetimes and Olympic world record performaces. All were charming and amazing.
South Korean Kim Yuna won the gold medal, skating one of the best free skates ever at an Olympic games and received a world record score of 150.06.
Japan's Mao Asada, became the first woman to land two, no make that three counting her short program, triple axels at the Olympics.
Canadian Joanie Rochette, winning the bronze, skated nearly flawlessly in the freeskate after completing the short program Tuesday night, with much emotion, only two days after losing her mother.
16-year-old Mirai Nagasu from the U.S. was perfectly outstanding, and placed fourth. Nagasu had the skate of her life, moving from sixth place to fourth place in the standings, missing a medal by only 12 points.
17-year-old Rachel Flatt had a few of her jumps downgraded and finished seventh overall. She was gorgeous.
All in all, it's great to take some time away from politics and watch folks do something so professional, so athletic, so graceful, and so delightful with their lives.
It's good to see the world come together for these great athletes.
I don't care who is skating, I want to see them do their best. This is the reward we got with yesterday's final round of women's figure skating--each skater skating their best ever performance.
Love and thank you to all the skaters and all the Olympic athletes for such dedication and spirit of competition and comraderie.
Yay, humans! (I don't feel like saying that very often.)