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 was a competitive rhythmic gymnast when I was younger and made it all the way to nationals. I ended injuring both my knees though and wasn’t able to continue.
A couple girls I trained with ended up going to the Olympics!
Now I love watching the figure skating and wish I could skate that beautifully!
I love to watch the Olympics, too!
I used to dream I was Daiane dos Santos, when I was little.
You know, the brazilian gymnastic 😉
I´ve never watched the Winter ones. This year´s a first!
😉
Brazilian XOXO´s,
Gabriela
I always wanted to be an Olympic gymnast….but I was never even a mediocre gymnast. My sister was an amazing gymnast though, so we had our own balance beam at the house. I used to pretend I was good and do “routines” on it when no one was around to make fun of me flailing all over the place!
I second or is it third now? that you look so pretty! As does your dinner!
But the cupcakes look the prettiest! Sorry Katie 😉
We have been watching the Olympics too. I have always enjoyed watching them. I like all sports, but favorite sports is volleyball. I find all the athletes to be inspirational.
We had a pool in our backyard growing up, and I used to make my best friend “announce me” and then I would do a gymnastics routine in the shallow end. Hehe – I’d forgotten all about that.
my parents have an entire home video of my sisters an I putting on our own olympics when we were younger. I was a pro at the balance beam (aka, the picnic table in our backyard)
I desperately wanted to go to the Olympics for swimming. I made it to the Junior Olympics when I turned 12 but before the meet actually happened I turned 13 and my time no longer qualified.
I was always a huge fan of Kristi Yamaguchi – we shared the same name, after all 🙂 Now I like to watch all the sports and – especially with the winter ones – just marvel over how intense they are. Puts my runs in perspective haha.
Oooh, I love hockey too! And I certainly had my moments pretending to be an olympian. Swimming, gymnastics, ice skating, and probably at times different competitions that I invented for myself. Of course I was the best at all the events and always won the gold!