When I watched the Olympics, as a little girl, I liked to pretend that I, too, was an Olympic athlete competing for gold.
By summer, I was a gymnast, a diver, a swimmer. And by winter, I was—of course—an ice skater. My sister and I had all three Olympic Gymnast Barbies (the blonde, the brunette, and the African-American), as well as the Olympic Stacies (whose costumes looked more like pajamas). And we’d judge each other on jumps, flips, and spins in our pool until my mom would drag us out by our raisiny fingers.
Did you ever dream of being Olympians?
Did you want to be Keri Strugg, with her incredible one-footed landing? Dominique Moceanu, with her energetic floor routine? Mia Hamm and the rest of the unstoppable US soccer team? Or Michelle Kwan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Tara Lipinski…
Question of the Day:
Who are your Olympic idols? And did you ever dream of competing in a certain Olympic sport?
I loved all of the swimmers growing up and I dreamed of one day competing!
We definitely should have hung out as kids… my sister and I spent our entire summer on the trampoline and in the pool doing performances for my mom! I look back at it now and feel sorry for my poor mom who spent hours watching our Olympic routines!
I loved watching figure skating too! I think my favorite Olypmian of all time was Donavon Bailey- he was the fastest man in the world for about 8months- and was Canadian- it was a score
Oh my gosh I had those same barbies! My favorite was Staci and she had on this pink leotard and you could make her do the bars. 🙂 WOW! I played with her a lot. When I was younger it was always gymnastics and I love shannon miller.
I was all about Michael Johnson when i was younger… I loved watching the track events and couldn’t wait for the Winter Olympics for the past few years either 🙂 Great looking veggies!
haha you are so cute in that pic! sucha goof. i was a gymnast for manyyyy years so naturally i wanted to be one of the Mag 7 :). amy chow is from my area so i got to meet her a few times at meets, remember teh black eye she got? badass! i didn’t really grow out of my olympic fever, when i started swimming and water polo in high school i was equally obsessed. never too old, i say!
I had a talent-crush on Kristi Yamaguchi. She was incredibly graceful and had a smooth flow to her skating that I will never forget. I also really liked Nancy Kerrigan – I remember being fascinated when they would show her mother (legally blind) with her nose to the screen so she could watch her daughter skate. Summer olympics, other than synchronized swimming, isn’t really my cup of tea. I’m totally a winter girl!
I always loved watching gymnastics in the summer olympics and ice skating pairs in the winter! I loved the ice skating outfits!
After watching Cool Runnings I’ve loved the bobsled competitions “feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, it’s bobsled time!!”
My idol now would be Kara Goucher, I would love to run like her! I tried gymnastics but unfortunately it wasn’t my cup of tea– running is though!!
Btw–> that mashed kabocha looks AMAZING, I think I’m going to have to try making some!
I wanted to be an Olympic gymnast so badly when I was little. Unfortunately I was so tall and uncoordinated it never was going to happen. Then there was that whole falling off the balance beam constantly thing. Oh well.
Those peaches look awesome! It has been way too long since I’ve snacked on fresh peaches.
And yes, of course, I dreamed of being an Olympian! Specifically, an Olympic Show Jumper, or maybe 3 day eventer. Hmmm….maybe I’ll talk to Ender and if he can get over being a spazz maybe we’re still in the running!