I am ready for my customary week-long post-Olympics nap, but posting and cheering about figure skating with all of you has been the best! Now, only 1,440 days until French Alps 2030. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Lara Naki Gutmann, Daniel Grassl, Matteo Rizzo, and Niccolo Macii getting major airtime during the closing ceremonies! #MilanoCortina2026

Seeing lots of posts like this, and it's leading me to believe that Alysa's victory has the potential to launch figure skating back into mainstream North American awareness. Skating is big at every Olympics, but I haven't seen a performance light up outside of FS circles like this in ages.

Going to crawl back into this moment, brb.

Goddamnit.

I propose a compromise: Team Canada and Connor Hellebuyck get gold medals, and the rest of team USA get silvers

This just in: entire nation reaches for beer, shakes head, prays. #GoCanadaGo #GoldMedalGame

Somebody check on him, this can’t be good for Scott’s heart.

Surely drinking *more* coffee will make watching this game more tolerable.

At this point I’m just yelping and waving my hands like a distressed Muppet every time we get tape on the puck.

Goal Posts coming in clutch yet again for Canada. #MilanoCortina2026

If these three were in charge of negotiating a North American free trade agreement we’d be all set.

It was us all along!

Breathe through the nose, Canada.

What I really want to know is where Scott Moir is right now and how many beers deep he is into this game.

Gooooooooooal!!

Awake, watching hockey, I gather we need to score some points here 🇨🇦

Figure skating: beauty, grace, chills! Also figure skating: Mortal Kombat exhibition programs! #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

I love it when pair teams wild out in gala programs. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Folks, you need to know that there's a Luka and Tim chaser moment to this: #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

I can't believe it's over and I'm happy to have watched. Olympic figure skating is something else. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Kaori and Riku flower crown shenanigans! My heart is going to burst, everyone, stand clear. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Now that backflips are legal, Adam and Ilia say synchro backflips need to be a thing, too! #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Queen Kaori is wrangling the group selfie FOR THE LAST TIME. 🥹

I think the ISU needs to add a GOE bullet for "Jumping in a Panda Suit". #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Mikahil Shaidorov Kung Fu Panda I am WEEPING. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Jun gets an ina bauer and Yuma gets an ina bauer and Ilia gets an ina bauer! #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Personally think you gotta earn a costume homage to Tessa Virtue and the glory of a Philip Glass soundtrack.

Kaori 😭 🥹 #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Conti & Macii giving me a PTSD flashback to every small town wedding reception I've ever been to. I'm looking over my shoulder for a herd of drunk uncles fixed on line dancing. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Carol Lane: "If we had a podcast called '10 Things I Love About Yuma,' what would be number one?" #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Yuma Kagiyama dropping a delayed sigle axel, as legends do. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Also a Gala favourite program for me. That was a gorgeous performance from Yuma. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Yuma wearing crushed velvet YES.

Adam Siao Him Fa is built for Olympic ice. He has the charisma and presence to meet the energy of that rink. Gala favourite program for me. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Junbauer....what a beautiful one to close out his Olympics. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Alison & Saulius skating to Guns n' Roses is so on brand it hurts (complimentary). #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Piper and Paul bringing out the cartwheel lift, my favourite, as a little treat. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Plushenko just jolted awake, wherever he is.

Not me getting teary at the Italian team skating a group exhibition to Nessun Dorma. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

FYI - Senbonzakura was choreographed by Satoko Miyahara ❤️ #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Peak exhibition program energy right here. These are the shenanigans I watch the Olympic gala for. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Smart & Dieck bringing the cool choreo to the Gala like the bosses they are. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Here I was about to give Grassl grief for wearing the Exhibition Standard Banana Republic costume fit and he reveals the red sequinned top. Well played, sir, well played. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

I am seated for Carolina Kostner. 👑 #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

Ultimate cultural fusion mode unlocked: explaining the Sweden-Canada curling beef to a Brit living in Japan.

The Agony in the Garden, by Eugène Delacroix, 1827, 📸 by @ElsaGarrison

This. Canada sinks an awful lot of resources into a few sports, leaves the rest to fend for themselves, then wonders why we barely edged out Australia for gold medals this Olympics. (No disrespect to our hot cousins in Australia, obviously!)

The mood On Here the day *after* the the competition ends: