So this ice-skating couple just did an ice dance on ABC involving an American flag. Totally over the top. It was an exhibition show, though. They probably don’t do that in competition.

I happened to catch the U.S. Women’s Figure Skating Championships on TV last night. I mentioned this to my friend Dave, a big figure-skating fan, who told me they were rebroadcasting the men’s and pairs on ESPN2 today. So I watched some of that. And now I’m watching the U.S. Figure Skating Spectacular (which involved the aforementioned American flag.) So I’m all set to watch the Olympic figure skating next month.

In men’s figure skating, the U.S. champion (as of last night) is Johnny Weir, who referred to a competitor’s choreography last week as “a vodka-shot-and-a-snort-of-coke kind of thing.”

He said he would not censor himself because he was not brought up that way.

Asked if he thought of himself as a role model, he said yes, but only to children who “feel different or stifled or squashed,” because that was the kind of child he was. “No one is Jesus,” he said. “I’m not for everyone.”

He added: “I don’t make statements just to make them. I mean every single word I say regardless of if it’s offensive or mean-spirited. I’m not going to sugarcoat it in any way.”

The other two U.S. men’s Olympic competitors will be Evan Lysacek and Matt Savoie. Both are rather attractive.

Oh yeah, there are some women, too.

Actually, Sasha Cohen is quite fantastic. Matt told me that her name sounded familiar, but I told him he was probably thinking of this guy. As far as I know, he doesn’t skate.

Doesn’t she totally look like Christina Ricci, by the way?