Jessica Smetana
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But like,
She took two years off like in her figure skating prime, like when she was 17 to 18 years old and came back and just won the Olympics.
And she did it while not feeling as much of the pressure as a lot of the other skaters felt because she knew like she was in it for her this time.
She was like having, this is in her words, like she was having fun with it and was able to really like show her artistic and creative chops that she never really felt like she got to exercise before when she was just trying to win, win, win all the time.
So I think it's a lovely story and she seems like a wonderful person.
I would definitely do something from Lord of the Rings.
I would do something spooky.
I mean, let's go back to football.
That was exactly what I was going to say.
I would do the Isengard theme.
That would be sick.
You know about that interrogation?
It's a little slutty, but I think it works.
I read a full description of her injury from a doctor in the New York Times this morning, and it made me so nauseous.
It was horrific.
They said that this is like and this is not a surprise to anyone that follows, you know, follows what was happening.
But they said it's akin to the type of injuries you get in huge car accidents, basically.
But she had this complex fracture.
because she was going like 70 miles an hour yeah and she also got compartment syndrome which um is when you have a lot of like blood in one area and so it like chokes off the blood supply to the rest of your nerves and it said that um if you have it like really severe compartment syndrome it doesn't respond to painkillers because it's like nerve pain which like
That sounds horrible.