Chelsea Clinton at the Olympics

I saw some footage of Chelsea Clinton at the Olympics. She looks stiff! I’m wondering if she’s really there; or if they just got one of those cardboard stand-ups? I can’t tell if she’s enjoying the Games. Every shot I see of her, she is sitting or standing very still, with a big smile on her face.

What sports does she like? Does she play any herself (no, not at the Olymics!)?

Well, she is a college student. She’s probably on drugs. All kids these days are on drugs. Didn’t you know that? Sheesh.

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Last night after Misty Hyman won the 200m butterfly, when the camera panned over to Chelsea to get a reaction shot, there was a woman with a camera right in Chelsea’s face taking her picture. I felt bad for Chelsea. I’m guessing she hasn’t been able to really enjoy herself because she spends the whole time having people staring at her and snapping pictures.

I think her roommate at Stanford is Misty Hyman, the girl who won the 200 fly.

I wsan’t going to say anything, but doesn’t “Misty Hymen” sound like a porn star name?

I hope my tax money didn’t get spent on shipping Chelsea down there to watch the Olympics.

No, I understand that she has a part-time job in one of the dining halls at Stanford, dishing out the lima beans at $3.15 an hour. She scrimped and saved for MONTHS to buy her ticket.

Maybe Chelsea and Misty are doing a porn flick later on in Australia?

She was watching the badminton game between Poul Erik Højer (defending olympic champ) and “son djong” (or something… hes the defending world champ this year) and she actully kinda let herself get into it… the game was exciting as hell (if youre a badminton fan that is… i am seeing as im danish and its the only thing were got at) anywho… she seemed to really follow the game and she cheered and stood up when the rest of the crowd did… she seemed to have an awesome time… probably because badminton doesnt get all that much of attention…

wonder what the hell she was doing there tho…

She probably went to badminton because it’s easy to get tickets for. :slight_smile:

I also think that her trip to Sydney is paid for in part by the USOC and out of the President’s travel allowance.

If she looks unhappy, it could be that she might look that way when there are cameras on her (which is frequently when she is out in public.)

She also could be suffering from some hellacious jet lag. I also don’t know if she is as much of a sports fan as her dad.

Maybe she was at the Badmiton game because it is the only sport/game where a piece of equipment is named partly after male genitalia (shuttleCOCK) Just a guess.

I heard part of the Women’s Weightlifting competition. The announcer kept saying, “She has a nice snatch.” Apparently, “snatch and jerk” is a method of lifting weights.

And on the water there was the “coxless four” race.

I always figured Chelsea had to finish a lot of her classes via correspondence or videoconferencing, because every time I turned my head, there she was on CNN on state visits in France or Greece or Kamchakta or wherever.

As for Misty Dawn Hyman, she was named for how the weather was on the morning she was born. And, yes, an excellent porn name it would be (huh huh … you said “Hyman”).

Wow, close call. She might have been named Raining Cats and Dogs Day Hyman.

Chelsea Clinton isn’t taking classes in the first term at Stanford this year. Reportedly, she is ahead of pace for graduation and only needs to attend one or two terms at Stanford to graduate (I believe Stanford uses quarters.)

I believe she took a ton of AP classes.

There’s the snatch, and the clean and jerk. Snatching is supposed to be one motion, whereas clean and jerk is two separate ones. Your combined total, I think (or is this world championships?), determines medals. I’m probably wrong about that.

Coxless fours are crew races. You also have twins and eights, the latter of which I don’t believe can be coxless, but I’m probably wrong about that as well.

I had my back to the teevee. How can you snatch the weight and put it over your head without an intermediate pause so you can push the weights up?