13 tweets about Olympic figure skating that we can all relate to
Every four years during the Summer Olympics, we all become experts in the balance beam and the butterfly stroke, and every four years during the Winter Olympics we tune into figure skating to become our own living room versions of Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski.
Half the fun of the Olympics is bonding over watching sports we totally respect but barely understand, and no sport better embodies that than figure skating. The combination of ice dancing, superhuman jumps and spins and indecipherable jargon leaves the majority of novice viewers in a state of confused awe. So to prove you’re not alone, here are 13 tweets about figure skating at the 2018 PyeongChang games that we can all relate to.
We’re all the most confused over brother-sister skating duos.
my mom to my stepdad: did you and your sister ever think about being a figure skating couple when you were young
step dad: no i used to feed her mud— lily (@lilyreign122) February 15, 2018
TFW the music is just too good not to watch the whole routine.
AUTOMATIC GOLD MEDAL GO THE FIGURE SKATING COUPLE WHO ARE DOING THEIR ROUTINE TO STAR WARS FILM SCORES
— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) February 15, 2018
The questions that keep us up at night.
Serious question: Do the women ever throw the men in figure skating?
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) February 15, 2018
For a few weeks every four years, we all pretend to understand what a salchow is.
Once every four years I finally get the 24-hour figure skating television coverage I so desperately crave.
— Abe Yospe (@Cheeseboy22) February 12, 2018
update: I’m obsessed with figure skating every four years
— Alex Hager (@alexhager1) February 12, 2018
This year’s Team USA is definitely the most fun.
I’m so obsessed with the US figure skating team ugh can I just be friends with all of them please
— Kira Kosarin (@kirakosarin) February 12, 2018
We’ve all been thinking it.
To give you some idea of how homophobic the sports world still is, it took until this year for us to have an openly gay American man compete in FIGURE SKATING.
Mad respect and huge congrats to @Adaripp.
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) February 12, 2018
Making up names for the moves is part of the fun.
Figure skating is sweet but why isn't there a move called the axel rose
— MackenzieBoyd-Clowes (@MackenskiBC) February 15, 2018
Also fun: acting like an expert because who’s going to correct you?
Does anyone else feel like a figure skating expert because of @ITonyaMovie? My roommates keep telling me to stop yelling about how hard it is to pull off a triple axel.
— Josh Marcus-Blank (@jmbtopia) February 12, 2018
(Watching figure skating)
"Yeah but she screwed up the landing after that triple jump.."
*Shoves more chips into my face*
— Cathryn (@AngryRaccoon2) February 12, 2018
Like peanut butter and jelly, or mac and cheese.
Figure skating is my favorite sport because it combines my love of cut-throat competition with my passion for sequins
— Migrant Twerker (@SortaBad) February 12, 2018
We’re united in our national obsession with the baby Nathan Chen videos.
I know that Olympic narratives are crafted for maximum emotional manipulation and it is 100 percent not gonna stop me from tearing up at the videos of Nathan Chen as a toddler skating in a tiny suit and tiny bow tie
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) February 9, 2018
Adam Rippon for king, queen and president. Put him on every single TV show please.
“This might be my first Olympics, but it’s not my first rodeo.”-@Adaripp
This is the perfect Housewives tagline. #Olympics #FigureSkating @Andy pic.twitter.com/BRZ55iZ1C5
— Joy Puder (@JoyPuder) February 12, 2018
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