Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Speaking of the two American beauties, they were at Madison Square Gardens March 1st for the Tyson American Cup

Shawn Johnson

Nastia Liukin

I was so very impressed at the smile that Shawn maintained even as she saw her lead slip away to Nastia (though Nastia is the press poster person, Shawn is the reigning artistic world champion.) I thought that a beautiful spirit (enviably beautiful 'cause I just don't got it.) The question is if the Chinese will find that spirit indomitable.

Photo sources: (in order) Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Brian Snyder; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Mike Segar; Yahoo! News/AFP/Gabriel Bouys; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Frank Franklin II; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Mike Segar ; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Brian Snyder; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Mike Segar ;Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Ruben Sprich. (The screen shots: The use of these images is not intended to defeat the owner's copyright interest, but are used under the "fair use" exception to the copyright laws for public comment on a public broadcast of an event of public importance. The use here implies no copyright interest of any sort in the images.

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