June 10, 2008

I Now Know The Names of Two Current Gymnasts

(That's two more than before this past weekend.)

Saturday we went to visit friends who have a new baby. They also happened to be watching gymnastics (live from the Boston University campus!) on NBC, on HD. I wonder if I'll ever get used to seeing close-ups of athletes where you can also clearly see the person in the front row idly sucking 32 ounces of Pepsi through a straw.

Anyhow, Shawn Johnson reminds me of someone (facially) but I can't place who. Near the end of the first page of results for Google Image Search for her name also happens to be, even with Moderate Safe Search on, an image of a bare backside (yet completely unrelated to the gymnast herself).

The other name I know is Nastia. She's in her teens (I presume), she's a gymnast, and her name is Nastia. Ten years from now she'll be a 20-something named Nastia who'd been a gymnast ten years ago. She'll probably be way too rich and famous to have to resort to being a stripper, yet that's a stripper name if I ever heard one.

Posted by Matt Bruce at June 10, 2008 01:22 PM
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In Russia, Nastia is a popular nickname for Anastasia.

Posted by: maribeth at June 10, 2008 04:58 PM
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