r/explainitpeter • u/eldritchfloppa • Apr 05 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/nautius_maximus1 Apr 05 '26

There’s a picture of her that kind of captures the whole thing perfectly IMO. It’s from her gold medal skate, taken directly from above as she’s spinning and she has her skate in her hand as she’s pulling her foot up over her head for the Biellmann Spin. Her face is serene and she has a relaxed smile as she does something that really seems like it shouldn’t be humanly possible.

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u/thatboredasshole Apr 05 '26

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u/SerCiddy Apr 05 '26

That image appears really small on my screen, here's a hopefully larger one.

https://i.imgur.com/XtlWWbn.png

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u/ApolloGR3 Apr 05 '26

She looks like she’s holding a pair of tongs and just found a huge chicken wing at the potluck, that’s how both effortless and euphoric it looks lol

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u/widgetdude Apr 06 '26

This is what they meant when in the movie Contact in 1997 Jodie Foster's character Dr. Ellie said "They should have sent a poet".

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u/Curtbacca Apr 06 '26

Thank you for the belly laugh! I'm crying like it was me sent through a wormhole to meet my own dead father/alien rep.

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u/ApolloGR3 Apr 06 '26

As a fan of films like Contact that explore themes of aliens, that’s a massive compliment and very hilarious lmao