Evan Lysacek, Olympic Champion!

On December 30 of last year, I made the following comment:

"oooh yeah, definitely pinning everything on Evan Lysacek" - even though at the time I had huge doubts about it, because at the time, the US representatives were as yet unnamed.

Well, tonight, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the 2010 Olympic Champion of Men's Figure Skating: EVAN LYSACEK!

Yeah, I had an exciting afternoon watching the men's free skate - apart from Evan (who didn't skate for about 3 hours after the start of the session), other favourites included Denis Ten of Kazakhstan and two Japanese skaters: Daisuke Takahashi and Nobunari Oda. Both of the Japanese ran into trouble - Takahashi failed to land his first skill, a quadruple (!!!) toeloop and Oda's bootlace snapped during his program, which was unfortunate but probably could have been avoided.

ANYWAY. Evan skated a lovely, clean program for a score of 167.37, which - after an agonising wait for the other skaters to finish - proved to be enough for gold over that Russian guy, Evgeni Plushenko. I actually squealed with happiness.

I'm doubly excited because Evan tweeted at me the other day. Yes, Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek took a few seconds out of his day to profess his shared support for the San Antonio Spurs.

I showed everyone who would give me enough time to cast their eye over my laptop screen.
"Evan Lysacek tweeted at me!" I raved, "and when he wins the Olympics in a few days, I'm going to post this on my blog."

So here it is!

Congratulations, Evan!!