Kimmie Meissner’s LA Times blog: “You’re asking me… what?”

Here’s the a blog entry from former World Champion Kimmie Meissner, that doesn’t hold back in giving real answers to those oh-so-old questions skaters get asked oh-so-often.

She’s got some blunt attitude, so check it out.

This blog is located at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2009/03/kimmie-meissn-1.html

Here are a few quotes from it:

Kimmie Meissner: You’re asking me … what?

3:10 PM, March 25, 2009

Editor’s note: Kimmie Meissner, winner of the 2006 World Figure Skating Championships, is the Fab Forum’s featured guest blogger today in conjunction with the 2009 world competition, taking place this week at Staples Center. She weighed in on Tuesday by recalling the moment of that 2006 victory.

As the competition begins in L.A., there will be many questions and media coverage. While I sit home wishing I was there, I started to think of all the obvious, silly questions I have been asked. So, I decided to blog about them.

So, are you going to the Olympics?

I have been asked this question since I began skating at the age of 6. Of course everyone wants to go to the Olympics! What kind of question is that?! Do we know if we are going? It’s called qualifying people. Would you ask a 6- year-old football player if they are going to the Super Bowl? More recently I’ve been asked how Beijing was. That was the summer Olympics. Figure skating is a winter sport, there is ice involved, which qualifies it for the winter games.

Is the ice slippery?

Ha ha, what? Did you really just ask that?

Do you fall? Does it hurt when you fall?

Do you really want to see the hematomas on the side of my hip? Try launching yourself a couple feet off the ground, rotating a couple times in the air and then trying to land on a 3/4-inch piece of steel on one foot, on a surface that is very, very slippery, that would be the ice. Ouch!

Do you like to skate?

As innocent as this question may seem, do you really believe that I would have spent the last 13 years of my life practicing at a cold, dark, mold-filled, Zamboni-fumed ice rink on a daily basis,

living off of rabbit food and water, as my nonexistent social life flourishes? Of course I love it! Who wouldn’t? Lol

You can read the rest of the blog at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2009/03/kimmie-meissn-1.html

~ by rochelleonice on March 28, 2009.