Tag: Silje Norendal

I am running into problems. There are almost too many Olympics. There are so many people I wanted to post but only so much time. I mean, I feel like maybe people who have reached the Olympics probably aren’t checking this blog hoping I post them (though if you are, let me know I guess) but it still hurts my soul to not like… give recognition. Anyway, today was hard and I was going back and forth but the thing is I woke up to pictures of Silje Norendal being sent to me and her event was in the early hours of the morning and well… I think she is the most beautiful person at the Olympics. She is just gorgeous. It’s why she’s one of the athletes showing up here before that you’ll find plenty of older posts about as well. I won’t spoil the event if you haven’t seen yet and want to but you know, I will say it’s a shame that wind played such a factor. Canceling the qualifiers, shortening the number of runs. Not for Silje’s sake but in general, because everyone there, this is one of the biggest moments of their career. I feel they were cheated some by not getting the full chance to show what they can do (and I was cheated cause slopestyle is probably my favorite event and we got a shortened run from the men and women). Silje is beautiful and in some ways represents to me how far we have come with women’s athletics. There were a lot of nasty stereotypes about female athletes when I was a kid and she defies basically all of them. Then as a young adult there were other really dismissive stereotypes about attractive athletes (largely that they were garbage and were only allowed in to the top level to help ratings) and she defies those. And this doesn’t really make her a trailblazer, those women who dealt with all those comments were the trailblazers. Silje is just the norm now she is beautiful and talented and no one questions either of those things based on the other thing. And that’s really nice. Today I want to fuck Silje Norendal.

So the Winter X-Games are going on this weekend and I watched a bunch cause…. well, I really like most of the sports that happen in the Winter X-Games and I have become a fan of a few of the sports in particular.  So here is Silje Norendal who shows up here roughly once a year when she shows up at some major Snowboarding event that is actually televised.  She is one of the top at women’s Slopestyle in the world and that sort of thing always impresses me, even though she didn’t reach the podium yesterday.  It only takes one slip after all.  I am blown away by what they can do.  And in her case it helps that she is just ridiculously beautiful.  Every time she showed up on screen it was like, oh right, she is fucking amazing to look at.  Who looks like that?  In the freezing cold?  My face would be a mess.  Hers is a delight.  Today I want to fuck Silje Norendal.

In a weird bit of coincidence I was talking about Silje Norendal yesterday.  For some reason she just came up in conversation with @she-goes-to-eleven  who I was certain wouldn’t have heard of her and had not but her reaction was like mine initially which was, “Wow, that girl is beautiful”.  It was a fun little trip down memory lane but is not why Silje Norendal is here today.  No, she is here because I remembered in the back of my mind the X Games were starting soon so I said, “Oh, I should see when they start”.  Well, they started yesterday.  So I said, “Well, let’s see what’s on”.  So I turn it on and get to see the very first competitor starting her run for the Women’s Slopestyle finals.  Which means Silje Norendal was minutes away from my screen.  Now, when I started this post, I didn’t know who was going to win because it was just starting.  It just is that hard to find pictures of athletes, honestly.  It isn’t like there is nothing of her but she doesn’t exactly show up on the red carpet.  Spoilers, she didn’t make it to the podium.  I had high hopes with her final run but it just didn’t happen. I am still blown away though, she won gold the three previous years and the truth is being among the best in the world at something you do is mind blowing.  Just mind blowing.  The things she can do on a snowboard take my breath away.  Then I see her face and that has the same effect.  It’s honestly mind blowing to me the combination of talent and beauty.  So she is here.  Because she is amazing.  Today I want to fuck Silje Norendal.

While I am getting better I am still crazy tired.  And have been sleeping more than not still, despite my hopes to like, be awake all of yesterday.  So I know there were some awards things yesterday but I haven’t even looked.  What I have seen though was yesterday at one point when awake I turned on my TV and the X Games were on and it was the women’s slopestyle finals.  And there was Silje Norendal getting ready and it was like, oh right, she looks like she was grown in a lab to just be beautiful.  Which of course is ridiculous.  If she was grown in a lab it couldn’t be just to be beautiful because she won the gold in women’s slopestyle and she’s an Olympic athlete so she was clearly grown in a lab to be an amazing snowboarder.  Being gorgeous was just a side effect.  That or they wanted an amazing and beautiful snowboarder.  Scientists can be power mad like that.  It’s probably too much to invest in one person, scientists.  Or I guess she could just naturally be this gifted.  That happens too.  Anyway, I am posting her today because not only is she very pretty I am just always wowed by the things athletes can do.  I post a lot of people who are good at their job but there is something very stark about the reminder when watching a professional athlete that they are quite often the single best person on the planet at what they can do.  It’s just humbling.  Also she’s very pretty.  Today I want to fuck Silje Norendal.

I love the Olympics.  I have since I was a kid.  I don’t know why really other than by having it only happen every 4 years it felt very special.  I kind of dislike that they stagger them now, it was cool when it really was only every 4 years when I was a kid.  I guess national pride and stuff goes into it, too.  And there is the human interest element, all sports are the story of people but these are the stories of people who have worked very hard with very little acclaim.  Most are not millionaires.  And I guess also for me there is the added advantages of Olympic crushes.  I can’t say it is something I have thought of as a thing before but I am realizing back in 1992 I had a pretty solid crush on someone on the gymnastics team.  I tried google and stuff but for the life of me I can’t remember who it was.  I just know I watched a lot of gymnastics that year strictly to see someone and sigh a little bit.  Anyway, female athletes have gotten noticeably hotter over the years as the idea of women being able to compete in things other than baking contests has become more and more socially acceptable.  It makes a lot of sense really, that people who work out constantly and are in amazing shape would often be attractive.  Like the math is very basic on that one but you have no idea how different it is than the stereotype about female athletes was when I was a kid.  Anyway, that’s a lot of talking to bring us to Silje Norendal who is from Norway and is a snowboarder and a damn good one at that.  I would not know she was even a thing if not for the Olympics but now I know and well… why did I pick her?  I can’t pretend patriotism.  The answer should be so obvious though, look at that face!  I mean, just look at her!  My god!  On top of those looks she happens to be one of the best in the entire world at what she does?  How do you not find that amazingly attractive?  Think about it, someone who is better at something than 7 billion people. Don’t you just want to be around that?  I do.  And holy fuck is she pretty.  So today I want to fuck Silje Norendal.