这是我看过最虐的囧尼的新闻
Figure skating's flamboyant Johnny Weir must be taken seriously
花式滑冰的华丽的尊尼威尔该被给与重视
美国的有望夺冠的囧尼并不会为是否在花式滑冰界有广泛的拥戴者而担心。
斯波坎市——在星期五的晚上，囧尼穿着他的在左肩上带有粉红色流苏的束胸粉红带黑的性感服装走进了赛后采访区，并且邀请了一位报道者去摸摸他称为“oily Lycra”的那块（身上的）布料。
说花式滑冰选手囧尼是华丽的是一点都不夸张的，就像是说Usain Bolt速度是很快的一样。
在很多个方面上，囧尼有的就是花式滑冰使劲去回避的一切东西。他是一个性别错乱的作秀者，一个用高跟鞋和短裙勾引摄像头的人。他在一场比赛中穿戴成天鹅一样，带着一只红色的手套来象征天鹅的嘴。
囧尼因热情的跳跃成为了一名非凡的运动者，但他同时也是一名当前在纪录片“冰上的明星”中一跃而起成为明星的人，其中一幕很显著的是他与一名男性朋友一起泡浴缸。
让我们这么说把：当囧尼参加美国花样滑冰锦标赛的决赛时，没有比美国国际足联的跨项目粉丝人数有更多的粉丝了。
对一个要尽力去吸引更多主流男性观众的运动来说，25岁的囧尼这个运动员的推销是他们最大的挑战。
对每一个不喜欢花样滑冰的人来说，他的运动的每一部分都是他们紧抓不放的掐了又掐的掐点。他不只是为了钱，但他是跟钱有关系德。他的服装也许对他的三次跳来说不是那么重要，但还是很重要的。
囧尼几乎要以花式滑冰选手的身份在《荣誉之刃》中成为Will Ferrell的角色了，并且还在被认真的考虑当中。但是囧尼还是非常好的，并且就像他的服装一样他在滑冰方面也是很戏剧化的。
囧尼以全球第八名成为了了一所老牌艺术学校的学生而且在星期五的短赛上以落后于世界冠军Evan Lysacek和Jeremy Abbott以第三名的成绩赢得了21世纪的一场运动。
“我为我在过去的几个月中完成的所有难题而感到非常兴奋，”他说。“我已经能够把我所有的成果都展现在冰上了，向每一个人展现我的身材，我的健康。我已经完全准备好，并且我要狂热的摆动我粉红色的流苏。”
上一年，在克利夫兰举行的全国锦标赛的欠佳的表演过后，囧尼几乎要退出了。他在比赛过程中病倒了并且缺乏关注，他不时地听到来自各方的批评。在克利夫兰过后，他陷入了深深的沮丧当中。
“上一年时我的整个世界都崩溃了，”他说。“我给自己背负起了很多东西，就像我年纪也大了起来，我完全明白。但是我绝不感到羞涩。我只是要比那些飞得像雷达那么快的人再努力一些。”
在多次的深思和来自母亲patti的鼓舞之下，囧尼决定最后一次为争取奥林匹克上的一枚奖牌而走了出来。并且在星期五的晚上，斯波坎竞技场上的粉丝，包括一群来自他全球性的粉丝俱乐部“囧尼的天使”（注：为了名称一致请宽恕译者，别打他）的成员，都跟他说他做出了正确的选择。
“当你在短短的比赛过程中有一个会站起来用各种方式来为你欢呼的的观众，他为你的每一个细节而欢呼，无论是脚部动作，旋转，或者是跳跃，”囧尼说，“有着那种冲着你来的来自场上各个地方的情感是你作为一个运动员能得到的最不可思议的东西。
“我处在一个这样独一无二的能与情感相融合的运动中。你能确确实实地跟注视着你的努力的人们相接触。这使我仅仅是想象不参加这次比赛就会觉得愧疚。”
毫无悬念，就如囧尼是一个作秀者一样囧尼同时也是一名世界水平的运动员。在他闪亮亮的外表下，他也是下个月在温哥华上的奖牌的一个威胁者。
“今年与上一年的比较，唯一的事实是我穿得闪亮亮的站在冰场上，”他说。“我在一个精神上和身体上都完完全全不一样的地方，所有的这些都将会得到回报。我真的觉得现在的我可以成功了。我可以走向奥林匹克。我可以与世界上顶尖的选手们相较量。”
在这个越来越严格的运动中，囧尼的精神很好。他对自己的稀奇古怪很高兴。他走的是“这就是我，来搞定我吧”那一挂的。
当花式滑冰使劲要变得更加主流并寻求着一些美国国家足联的粉丝的青睐时，当它使劲要把运动向“肌肉男”发展时，它不该忘记一些像囧尼这样的作秀型运动员。他真的太好了也有魅力到让人忽视不了。
“我穿粉红色，”他说。“来总结我对冰上流行服装的理解，可能这再多也是不够的。但我的运动再哪我都是没有问题的。把我的运动主流化会把它归类到它不该被归类到的地方。花式滑冰是很夸张的。这是艺术。这是很高雅的。这是极端的很运动化的东西。他有他独特的观众。
“我不看足球，所以我不明白为什么一个足球迷会看花式滑冰。你看你喜欢的东西。还有我希望如果有人来看我滑冰，他们会认同我和认同我在冰上做的一切，并且他们会继续看下去。”
囧尼穿戴流苏。那又怎么样？小孩会滑冰，并且这不就是这运动的名字？
American champion hopeful Johnny Weir is not worried about a widespread audience for figure skating.
SPOKANE — Johnny Weir walked into the post-skate interview area Friday night wearing his corseted hot pink and black costume with a pink tassel hanging off his left shoulder and invited a reporter to rub the fabric that he called, "oily Lycra."
To say that figure skater Weir is flamboyant is as understated as saying Usain Bolt is fast, or Jay Leno is done.
In many ways, Johnny Weir is everything that figure skating is trying to escape from. He is a gender-bending showman, who has vamped for cameras in high heels and short skirts. He dressed like a swan at one competition, wearing one red glove to symbolize the beak.
Weir is a remarkable athlete, with mad hops, but he also is the guy who recently starred in the documentary "Pop Star on Ice" that featured a scene with him soaking in a tub with a male friend.
Let's put it this way: There won't be much of a crossover audience with NFL fans today when Weir competes in the championship finals at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
For a sport that is trying to attract a larger mainstream male audience, selling Weir, 25, is their greatest challenge.
He is every cliché about his sport that everyone who dislikes figure skating clings to. He isn't all about the sequins, but he is about the sequins. His costumes may not be as important to him as his triple jumps, but they are important.
Weir is as close to being Will Ferrell in "Blades of Glory" as a figure skater can get and still be taken seriously. But Johnny Weir also is very good and is as dramatic on skates as he is in his costumes.
Ranked eighth in the world, Weir combined an old-school artistry and a 21st-century athleticism to finish third behind Jeremy Abbott and defending world champion Evan Lysacek in Friday's short program.
"I'm so excited with all the hard work that I've done these past few months," he said. "I was able to put that product on the ice and show everyone that I'm in shape. I'm healthy. I'm prepared, and I'm rocking my pink tassels with abandon."
Last year, after a poor performance at the national championships in Cleveland, Weir came close to quitting. He was sick at that competition and lacked focus, a criticism Weir hears often. After Cleveland, he dropped deep into depression.
"The world was absolutely falling down on me last year," he said. "I bring a lot of things on myself and, as I get older, I completely realize that. But in no way am I ashamed of it. I just have to work a little harder than someone who flies under the radar."
After much soul-searching and encouragement from his mother Patti, Weir decided to come back for one last attempt at an Olympic medal. And on Friday night, the response from the fans in Spokane Arena, including a gaggle of members of his worldwide fan club, "Johnny's Angels," told him he'd made the right choice.
"When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump," Weir said, "to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.
"I'm in such a unique wonderful sport that can combine real emotion. You can really connect with the people who are beholding what you are trying to do. It made me regret even thinking of not even trying this event."
Make no mistake about it, Weir is as much a world-class sportsman as he is a showman. For all the sparkle and spangle of his outfits, he also is a legitimate medal threat next month in Vancouver.
"Comparing this year with last year, there is no comparison other than the fact I was on the ice in a sparkly costume," he said. "I'm in a completely different place, mentally, physically, and all of those things are paying off. I'm really feeling now like I can do this. I can go to the Olympics. I can challenge the top skaters in the world."
In a sport that has become increasingly uptight, Weir is refreshing. He celebrates his outlandishness. He is real in a "this-is-who-I-am, deal-with-it" kind of way.
While figure skating tries to become more mainstream and looks for some love from the NFL-loving fans, while it tries to "masculinize" its sport, it shouldn't forget about athletic showmen like Johnny Weir. He is too good and too charismatic to be ignored.
"I wear pink," he said. "To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough. But I have no problem with where my sport is. To make my sport mainstream would be to categorize it in a way that it shouldn't be categorized. Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
"I can say I don't watch football games, so I don't understand why a football fan would have to watch figure skating. You watch what you like. And I hope that if people see my skating they can relate to me or relate to what I'm doing on the ice and they will continue to watch."
Johnny Weir wears tassels. So what? The kid can skate, and isn't that the name of the sport?
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/stevekelley/2010814635_kelley17.html
花式滑冰的华丽的尊尼威尔该被给与重视
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美国的有望夺冠的囧尼并不会为是否在花式滑冰界有广泛的拥戴者而担心。
斯波坎市——在星期五的晚上，囧尼穿着他的在左肩上带有粉红色流苏的束胸粉红带黑的性感服装走进了赛后采访区，并且邀请了一位报道者去摸摸他称为“oily Lycra”的那块（身上的）布料。
说花式滑冰选手囧尼是华丽的是一点都不夸张的，就像是说Usain Bolt速度是很快的一样。
在很多个方面上，囧尼有的就是花式滑冰使劲去回避的一切东西。他是一个性别错乱的作秀者，一个用高跟鞋和短裙勾引摄像头的人。他在一场比赛中穿戴成天鹅一样，带着一只红色的手套来象征天鹅的嘴。
囧尼因热情的跳跃成为了一名非凡的运动者，但他同时也是一名当前在纪录片“冰上的明星”中一跃而起成为明星的人，其中一幕很显著的是他与一名男性朋友一起泡浴缸。
让我们这么说把：当囧尼参加美国花样滑冰锦标赛的决赛时，没有比美国国际足联的跨项目粉丝人数有更多的粉丝了。
对一个要尽力去吸引更多主流男性观众的运动来说，25岁的囧尼这个运动员的推销是他们最大的挑战。
对每一个不喜欢花样滑冰的人来说，他的运动的每一部分都是他们紧抓不放的掐了又掐的掐点。他不只是为了钱，但他是跟钱有关系德。他的服装也许对他的三次跳来说不是那么重要，但还是很重要的。
囧尼几乎要以花式滑冰选手的身份在《荣誉之刃》中成为Will Ferrell的角色了，并且还在被认真的考虑当中。但是囧尼还是非常好的，并且就像他的服装一样他在滑冰方面也是很戏剧化的。
囧尼以全球第八名成为了了一所老牌艺术学校的学生而且在星期五的短赛上以落后于世界冠军Evan Lysacek和Jeremy Abbott以第三名的成绩赢得了21世纪的一场运动。
“我为我在过去的几个月中完成的所有难题而感到非常兴奋，”他说。“我已经能够把我所有的成果都展现在冰上了，向每一个人展现我的身材，我的健康。我已经完全准备好，并且我要狂热的摆动我粉红色的流苏。”
上一年，在克利夫兰举行的全国锦标赛的欠佳的表演过后，囧尼几乎要退出了。他在比赛过程中病倒了并且缺乏关注，他不时地听到来自各方的批评。在克利夫兰过后，他陷入了深深的沮丧当中。
“上一年时我的整个世界都崩溃了，”他说。“我给自己背负起了很多东西，就像我年纪也大了起来，我完全明白。但是我绝不感到羞涩。我只是要比那些飞得像雷达那么快的人再努力一些。”
在多次的深思和来自母亲patti的鼓舞之下，囧尼决定最后一次为争取奥林匹克上的一枚奖牌而走了出来。并且在星期五的晚上，斯波坎竞技场上的粉丝，包括一群来自他全球性的粉丝俱乐部“囧尼的天使”（注：为了名称一致请宽恕译者，别打他）的成员，都跟他说他做出了正确的选择。
“当你在短短的比赛过程中有一个会站起来用各种方式来为你欢呼的的观众，他为你的每一个细节而欢呼，无论是脚部动作，旋转，或者是跳跃，”囧尼说，“有着那种冲着你来的来自场上各个地方的情感是你作为一个运动员能得到的最不可思议的东西。
“我处在一个这样独一无二的能与情感相融合的运动中。你能确确实实地跟注视着你的努力的人们相接触。这使我仅仅是想象不参加这次比赛就会觉得愧疚。”
毫无悬念，就如囧尼是一个作秀者一样囧尼同时也是一名世界水平的运动员。在他闪亮亮的外表下，他也是下个月在温哥华上的奖牌的一个威胁者。
“今年与上一年的比较，唯一的事实是我穿得闪亮亮的站在冰场上，”他说。“我在一个精神上和身体上都完完全全不一样的地方，所有的这些都将会得到回报。我真的觉得现在的我可以成功了。我可以走向奥林匹克。我可以与世界上顶尖的选手们相较量。”
在这个越来越严格的运动中，囧尼的精神很好。他对自己的稀奇古怪很高兴。他走的是“这就是我，来搞定我吧”那一挂的。
当花式滑冰使劲要变得更加主流并寻求着一些美国国家足联的粉丝的青睐时，当它使劲要把运动向“肌肉男”发展时，它不该忘记一些像囧尼这样的作秀型运动员。他真的太好了也有魅力到让人忽视不了。
“我穿粉红色，”他说。“来总结我对冰上流行服装的理解，可能这再多也是不够的。但我的运动再哪我都是没有问题的。把我的运动主流化会把它归类到它不该被归类到的地方。花式滑冰是很夸张的。这是艺术。这是很高雅的。这是极端的很运动化的东西。他有他独特的观众。
“我不看足球，所以我不明白为什么一个足球迷会看花式滑冰。你看你喜欢的东西。还有我希望如果有人来看我滑冰，他们会认同我和认同我在冰上做的一切，并且他们会继续看下去。”
囧尼穿戴流苏。那又怎么样？小孩会滑冰，并且这不就是这运动的名字？
American champion hopeful Johnny Weir is not worried about a widespread audience for figure skating.
SPOKANE — Johnny Weir walked into the post-skate interview area Friday night wearing his corseted hot pink and black costume with a pink tassel hanging off his left shoulder and invited a reporter to rub the fabric that he called, "oily Lycra."
To say that figure skater Weir is flamboyant is as understated as saying Usain Bolt is fast, or Jay Leno is done.
In many ways, Johnny Weir is everything that figure skating is trying to escape from. He is a gender-bending showman, who has vamped for cameras in high heels and short skirts. He dressed like a swan at one competition, wearing one red glove to symbolize the beak.
Weir is a remarkable athlete, with mad hops, but he also is the guy who recently starred in the documentary "Pop Star on Ice" that featured a scene with him soaking in a tub with a male friend.
Let's put it this way: There won't be much of a crossover audience with NFL fans today when Weir competes in the championship finals at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
For a sport that is trying to attract a larger mainstream male audience, selling Weir, 25, is their greatest challenge.
He is every cliché about his sport that everyone who dislikes figure skating clings to. He isn't all about the sequins, but he is about the sequins. His costumes may not be as important to him as his triple jumps, but they are important.
Weir is as close to being Will Ferrell in "Blades of Glory" as a figure skater can get and still be taken seriously. But Johnny Weir also is very good and is as dramatic on skates as he is in his costumes.
Ranked eighth in the world, Weir combined an old-school artistry and a 21st-century athleticism to finish third behind Jeremy Abbott and defending world champion Evan Lysacek in Friday's short program.
"I'm so excited with all the hard work that I've done these past few months," he said. "I was able to put that product on the ice and show everyone that I'm in shape. I'm healthy. I'm prepared, and I'm rocking my pink tassels with abandon."
Last year, after a poor performance at the national championships in Cleveland, Weir came close to quitting. He was sick at that competition and lacked focus, a criticism Weir hears often. After Cleveland, he dropped deep into depression.
"The world was absolutely falling down on me last year," he said. "I bring a lot of things on myself and, as I get older, I completely realize that. But in no way am I ashamed of it. I just have to work a little harder than someone who flies under the radar."
After much soul-searching and encouragement from his mother Patti, Weir decided to come back for one last attempt at an Olympic medal. And on Friday night, the response from the fans in Spokane Arena, including a gaggle of members of his worldwide fan club, "Johnny's Angels," told him he'd made the right choice.
"When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump," Weir said, "to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.
"I'm in such a unique wonderful sport that can combine real emotion. You can really connect with the people who are beholding what you are trying to do. It made me regret even thinking of not even trying this event."
Make no mistake about it, Weir is as much a world-class sportsman as he is a showman. For all the sparkle and spangle of his outfits, he also is a legitimate medal threat next month in Vancouver.
"Comparing this year with last year, there is no comparison other than the fact I was on the ice in a sparkly costume," he said. "I'm in a completely different place, mentally, physically, and all of those things are paying off. I'm really feeling now like I can do this. I can go to the Olympics. I can challenge the top skaters in the world."
In a sport that has become increasingly uptight, Weir is refreshing. He celebrates his outlandishness. He is real in a "this-is-who-I-am, deal-with-it" kind of way.
While figure skating tries to become more mainstream and looks for some love from the NFL-loving fans, while it tries to "masculinize" its sport, it shouldn't forget about athletic showmen like Johnny Weir. He is too good and too charismatic to be ignored.
"I wear pink," he said. "To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough. But I have no problem with where my sport is. To make my sport mainstream would be to categorize it in a way that it shouldn't be categorized. Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
"I can say I don't watch football games, so I don't understand why a football fan would have to watch figure skating. You watch what you like. And I hope that if people see my skating they can relate to me or relate to what I'm doing on the ice and they will continue to watch."
Johnny Weir wears tassels. So what? The kid can skate, and isn't that the name of the sport?
附上原文地址：
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/stevekelley/2010814635_kelley17.html
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