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I was watching the US Olympic Gymnastics Trials the other day. American gymnast Jake Dalton made me do a double-take. Why? Because he is exactly what I always pictured the Pike triplets to grow up looking like. I mean exactly. He's like a doppelganger of three fictional characters whose looks existed solely in my mind.

Except for Jake Dalton is way more muscular (obviously. I mean, he is a gymnast.) I always pictured Adam and Jordan as kind of scrawny throughout their lives. Byron is a little pudgier, because he's a stress eater.

Not that I've spent any time thinking about this or anything.

For your pleasure, some pictures of Jake Dalton. (And it's not just him. The entire US men's team is sooo not-ugly.)

( PIctures! Under the cut! )

X-posted to my other blog

My family has always been kind of Olympic crazy. My oldest sister is a skeleton slider and made it to the Olympic trials, though she didn't make the Olympic team.

At first I was disappointed because I wanted to go watch her race in Vancouver so so so badly. Now I'm glad. This track is fucking dangerous. A Georgian luger just died in training. The best lugers and sliders in the world have been crashing and injuring themselves on this track since training began last week. Curve eleven is probably the deadliest one.

WTF Vancouver? I get it that they're dangerous sports anyway. You don't need to make them any deadlier by creating a track that will send people hurtling to their deaths at 90+ miles per hour. If my sister had made the team, I'd be a wreck right about now.