Figure Skating and Gymnastics in Bed

Now that the Olympic figure skating competition is over, many of us are nursing spandex and sequin hangovers. Think of this, the final figure skating blog post of the Games, as your hangover salve.

As I wrote a few days ago, 2008 Olympic champ in gymnastics, Nastia Liukin is dating men's figure skating gold medalist, Evan Lysacek are dating. They claim to spend a lot of time indoors, just hanging out and watching movies when they get the chance of it. Sure. Even if that was true, Nastia turned 20 in October so it is no longer (too) icky to imagine hers and Evan's Olympic style pillow talk.

Let's start with pillows:

Nastia: You got glitter on the pillows.

Evan: No, that's your eye glitter.

Nastia: No, that's the glitter from your costume, you know, the one with the sparkly snakes...

Evan: At least I didn't win my Olympic title in an outfit the color of Pepto Bismol.



On scoring:

Evan, breathing heavily, lays his head on Nastia's chest and looks expectantly into her eyes.

Evan: Well...

Nastia: 9.0

Evan: Wait, don't you guys have a new scoring system?

Nastia: That's only your execution mark, which then gets added to the degree of difficulty.

Evan: Where did I lose a point?

Nastia: Your rotation wasn't complete. And you didn't point your toes.

And finally, the future:

Nastia: What sport do you think our child should do?

Evan: Naturally, figure skating.

Nastia: I asked which "sport," but of course, we'll also enroll our daughter in dance class.

Evan: Well, what "sport" should she switch to once she hits puberty or grows taller than the height of the balance beam, whichever comes first? What then?