Sasha Cohen's confidence shattered by NBC Interviewer?

After her ever so narrow first place finish in the short program, Sasha
Cohen was elated. That is, until the NBC interviewer Andrea Joyce
struck, telling Sasha "The rub has always been can you keep it together
for two programs?" Sasha suddenly looked like she had been punched in
the stomach and was going to cry. The interviewer, having broken her
spirit, ended the interview with a perfunctory (and ironic) good luck.

Little wonder that Sasha's practice was cancelled. Her coaches
probably won't let her on the ice until the very last minute,
desperately hoping to minimizing the chances that she would fall or
miss a jump. Because her now fragile confidence couldn't handle it in
a practice, which would doom her in the competition.

Chelsea Christenson...

Congratulations NBC, you've all but guaranteed that the Japanese in 3rd
(Shizuka Arakawa) or the Russian in 2nd (Irina Slutskaya) will win.

If ice skating can be bet on, bet against Sasha, thanks to Andrea
Joyce. For Sasha to win now would be a bigger miracle than even the
gold medal won by 1980 U.S. hockey team.

pb......

Ken from Chicago...