MATT550 - Even Though We All Wanted the Other Girl To Win, We Couldn't Help but Be Sad When Her Rivals Fell on Their Faces
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
Matt Whitman
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Growing up my sister was a figure skater, camera if we talked about this before or not, but |
| 0:11.6 | it was really cool to watch her go from can barely stand up on skates to is just a |
| 0:18.8 | phenomenal athlete who has amazing control of her body in the air and does elegant, beautiful |
| 0:23.8 | artistic things. |
| 0:24.8 | And so this is a big part of my life growing up was the figure skating world and my family |
| 0:30.8 | and I would watch all of the figure skating stuff to see what the elite top athletes |
| 0:36.4 | were doing. |
| 0:37.4 | And I remember every time a winter Olympics would roll around, that was a very big deal |
| 0:41.3 | for our family. |
| 0:42.3 | And we would watch all of the routines in the short program and the long program. |
| 0:47.0 | Then the doubles, the pair skate, all of that business. |
| 0:50.4 | And it's so different than rooting for other sports. |
| 0:55.7 | When things go right for the Broncos, which is rare as a football fan, I have trouble |
| 1:00.9 | staying in my seat and I'm so excited that the outcome has flipped. |
| 1:05.2 | And if my opponents screw something up, I'm more than happy to celebrate that. |
| 1:10.5 | That's great. |
| 1:11.5 | But in figure skating, it's really hard to root against anybody who's out there doing |
| 1:15.8 | this on this island by themselves, other than Tonya Harding, and that don't want down |
| 1:20.4 | when we were in this era of loving figure skating as a family. |
| 1:23.5 | She was easy to root against because of the crowbar to somebody else's knee. |
| 1:28.0 | But I remember when we'd be watching these routines and they're playing the beautiful |
| 1:31.3 | music and it's so elegant and lovely and then Scott Hamilton would be like, this is the |
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