Thursday, April 15, 2010

Woah!

I was about to make a start on dinner when something, some inkling, made me go into the loungeroom just now*. I'm so glad I did because as I walked in and faced the tv, Channel 10 news was starting a short piece on former MLC gymnast turned Winter Olympics gold medallist Lydia Lassila visiting her old stomping grounds... where we also got to meet Amelia McGrath and Georgia Wheeler!

Lydia showed her gold medal to young gymnasts in training and briefly talked about her gym background leading to aerial skiing, the reporter mentioned the upcoming Pacific Rim and Commonwealth Games events, and G-Whizz and Millybeans talked about their future goals (both as smiley as eachother while doing so). Here's hoping we see the piece again on Ten's late news sometime around 10:30 (AEST) tonight!

I have a feeling we'll see superstar Lydia presenting medals at Pacific Rim, too.


You stay classy, MLC! d(^_^)b



(photo courtesy of benoitof at gymnet.org)


*Funnily enough it wasn't the GA tweet that I only just spotted after posting this. I've been incommunicado for two hours, I thought maybe I had magical precognition or something and spotted some unannounced news item...

ETA: Video, courtesy of JumpMedia.



(ETA further: I caught the segment as it replayed on Sports Tonight. Turns out a short and entusiastic soundbite from Peggy also featured, which was cut from the initial report; it also doesn't appear in the above upload)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Proof that Amelia is not sour looking! She is adorable.. AND talented. Can't wait to see her in action at Pac Rim.

Anonymous said...

I think you can cease the negation of GA Mez - it is getting quite tiresome...

Anonymous said...

I missed the piece on Lydia tonight on Channel 10 but will be watching the late news tonight for sure. What l have seen is a great article done on Lydia by ESPN and aired just prior to the Olympics.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4937079

Mez said...

It wasn't a comment on GA, Anon 7:06!

I was saying that what compelled me into the living room wasn't their tweet about the news piece; I didn't think it HAD been tweeted about at all, I thought it was some surprise news piece I luckily caught by accident. I didn't know it was advertised anywhere until AFTER I posted this entry.

Relax, I do not find fault with every single thing GA does, yeesh!

Anonymous said...

My daughter is thrilled to have two Pac Rim gymnasts at her gym. Great role models for the little ones!

Anonymous said...

Anon at 7.06PM- a bit sensitive much?

I think Mez was just saying that she hadn't seen the tweet because she wasn't on the net (or the likes) but also highlighting that the tweet was there. It was more about how she had some sort of psychic pull took her to the tv... no need to criticise geez

Anonymous said...

Amelia reminds me of a young Katerina Frketic for some reason :)

Bec