Aw, this was so sad to watch.

I hope he didn’t cause any more permanent damage to his back during the team skates.

Edit (2/22): okay, wow, so it sounds like he needs back surgery again because one of the screws already in his spine snapped. Ouch.

There is no better way to start an Olympic games than with this man:

Evgeni Plushenko!!!

And that was a damn good program he gave us tonight, holy crap.

Have some more pics:

The fact that I was in the same city as him–for a few days, at least–makes me super happy.

(I love him sorry)

In other news (and the reason that this blog is password protected), my STAT 452 class is really starting to suck. I definitely need to rant about this—which will happen later when I have more time and am not absorbed in watching figure skating—but I just needed to mention it somewhere before my head explodes from anger.