"Just lay there like you meant it."

What's more depressing than a young woman barely missing her dreams of London Olympics glory and slamming her blonde head into the mat in front of thousands? A young woman doing that in front of her father, who is the hapless spotter watching years of waking up at 4 a.m. to drive his daughter to gymnastics practice go down the drain. On the plus side, if Nastia Liukin hadn't failed so spectacularly, they probably would have done this for another four years; now, she can quit, try her first non-diet soda, grow past 5'2" and start enjoying World of Warcraft or some other non-pain-based entertainment.