Miho's favorites

Sochi Olympics is over, and we have been really enjoying watching it since it started this month. While watching many Olympics subjects, we also enjoyed the beautiful snow mountain scenery of Sochi. My husband says it looks similar to the mountains in Austria , so beautiful. I love snow mountain. In this winter Olympics, my favorite subject is of course Figure skating . We were recording all the skating competitions as usual. I was very glad they have added " team " competition besides individual competition in figure skating, same as gymnastics,  which I have been hoping for. Also it's really great for skaters as well, because they get chance to have another medal. My husband and I really enjoyed with Team competition.  However I feel the team competition may be better to put after individual competition, because I found most of skaters who attended the team competition looked exhausted in the individual competition mentally and physically and it might ...

My favorite moments The Olympic games are over and we really enjoyed it everyday ! Here are my favorite moments in these Olympic games. Swimming * All the Phelps vs. Lotche’s races and also races in which these two participated. It was soooo thrilling to watch them compete. * Men’s 100m freestyle , This race was incredible , the fastest swimmers ( freestyle ) competition ?  Nathian Adrian was amazing and he won this aggressive race ! * The scene showing Phelps and Lotche celebrating Adrian’s win at 100m freestyle. * Men’s 200m freestyle -  Yannick Agnel of France had an inspiring race. * All the Men’s 4 X relay-  100m freestyle -  it was unbelievable Team France   Amaury Leveaux / Fabien Gilot / Clement Lefert / Yannick Agnel  beat this strong Team USA Nathan Adrian / Michael Phelps / Cullen Jones / Ryan Lochte . When the camera was panning in on Michael while he was waiting for the anchor Ryan Lochte to come ...

Here are the results of each women’s gymnastics event. Vault 1. Sandra Raluca Izbasa - ROU 15.191 2. Mc Kayla Maroney -USA 15.083 3. Maria Paseka- RUS 15.050  4  Janine Berger- GER 15.016 5  Oksana Chusovitina- GER 14.783 6  Yamilet Pena Abreu- DOM 14.516 7  Brittany Rogers- CAN 14.483 8  Elsabeth Black- CAN 0.000 Uneven bar 1. Aliya Mustafina- RUS 16.133 2. Kexin He- CHN 15.933 3. Elizabeth Tweddle- GBR 15.916 4. Jinnan Yao- CHN 15.766 5. Victoria Komova- RUS 15.666 6. Elisabeth Seitz- GER 15.266 7. Koko Tsurumi- JPN 14.966 8. Gabrielle Douglas- USA 14.900 Balance beam 1. Linlin Deng -CHN 15.600 2. Lu Sui -CHN 15.500 3 .Alexandra Raisman- USA 15.066 4.Catalina Ponor- ROU 15.066 5. Kseniia Afanaseva -RUS 14.583 6. Larisa Andreea Iordache -ROU 14.200 7. Gabrielle Douglas- USA 13.633 8. Victoria Komova -RUS 13.166 Floor Exercise 1. Alexandra Raisman USA 15.600 2. Catalina Ponor ROU 15.200 3. Aliya Mustafina RUS 1...

In day 5 of London Olympics swimming, there was the 100m free style final race.  And Nathan Adrian from USA won it !!!  Highlights: Nathan Adrian Wins Gold In 100m Free  http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/swimming/highlights-nathan-adrian-wins-gold-in-100m-free.html   “ U.S. swimmer Nathan Adrian wins the men's 100m freestyle in dramatic fashion, out-touching James Magnusant by one one-hundredth of a second to earn gold. “  And Yannick Agnel was also in the race.  After seeing the race, I thought 1 to 6 can probably beat each other at any given time, because they all are almost like tie breaker in the end.  As we can see from the result below, swimmers 1 through 6 all came in at the exact same second !!!  The difference in times were by fractions of a second.  Seems that whoever has the best touch to the wall, wins !!!  Here is the result of the race 100m Freestyle , 1. Nathan ...

Most impressive woman gymnast for me this London Olympics is Viktoria Komova from Russia.  Especially her floor exercise in all-round was perfect ! Sooooooooo artistic and magically beautiful !!!!!  And the technical part was excellent, too.  Landed all the jumps perfectly and spins as well.  We already watched it many times last night. I’m so happy to find my new favorite gymnast because I haven’t been super impressed like this since long time ,since 1980’s Moscow Olympics.   Viktoria’s movements are naturally beautifully artistic and each part flows and connects smoothly to her next movement .   I think she really has natural artistic talent of movements which are really well-balanced.   I really love to see beautiful performance, so her floor exercise was a huge hit for me.  Ray noticed that Viktoria’s music was mixture of different music including Queen’s song “ the show must goes on “...

I wasn’t watching swimming until last Olympics, maybe only one Olympics when I was a little girl, the times when Mark Spitz was winning everything, because my dad was watching it.  But in this London Olympics, we both are very into it because curious to see Phelps VS Lochte .  I didn’t know about Ryan Lochte until this Olympics, but when I checked his career he was always behind Michael Phelps every Olympics although he was on the podiums with Phelps.  People were speculating about Michael Phelps , some say he didn’t want to compete in Olympics anymore and had another new plan for his life but his mother wanted him to compete so he went to London.  In the last Olympics in Beijing he won 8 gold medals.  In London, he was out of the medals in the first day of competition and Lochte won. However, after that, Phelps seems like he brought back his focus, and he has been winning Silver or Gold since then.  Yesterday, it was shame...