Even written in Itatian, I knew it wasn't a sucess :-(

I was a little scared when I heard Whitney was singing at the Winter Games, I mean given her last performance on BET where she couldn't even talk I was like unless she had a throat transplant there was no way she was gonna sound good: I took this off of a Canadian newspaper site, Sadly I was right... PS the picture from my first post was my first birthday July 29th 1976!! I thought it was appropriate - first post, first birthday - Get it?

Houston, abbiamo una problema!
Our tailor in Turin offers constructive criticism of Whitney's Olympic concert
Shinan Govani, National PostPublished: Tuesday, February 21, 2006
To Torino now, where the irrepressible Tu Ly -- the tip-top tailor to the Canadian Olympic athletes -- is my man on the ground!
Tu, who collaborated with HBC on all those winter-cool duds, has been in Italy of late starring in his own version of Project Runway, which consists, apparently, of flirting with speed skaters, providing fashion advice to curlers ("So, Tu, shirt tucked in or not?") and being a sort of all-purpose sartorial St. John's Ambulance for Canada's medal-seekers!
Of course, he's been having some fun, too -- and on Sunday he even went to a concert in a piazza with that pop flashback Whitney Houston! From there, he BlackBerried me the latest.
"Nowhere close to a gold medal performance, nor even a bronze contender," he pithily proclaimed.
"The Queen is back," was how Whitney was apparently introduced by the Italian host, but according to Tu, it was "a tragic event from the moment she stepped onto the outdoor stage." First off, there was the outfit: Even though there were reports that the diva would be wearing a Russian fur for her anticipated Olympic one-off, it looked to our eyewitness as more "faux synthetic" than "pelle lux." And with it, she had on a cream turtleneck and ill-fitting white nylon pants.
Asks our Tu: "Don't you just hate it when apres-ski whites don't match?"
So, about the singing. Starting off with Greatest Love of All, Whitney "coughed, sniffled and talked her way through the song." She motioned a cough attack and, struggling, asked the audience, "Why did they choose to do this outdoors? I don't sing in the cold. It makes my voice funny," and then made the international hand-gesture for "crazy."
From there, it was on to her massive '80s hit, I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me). Tu's verdict? "Flat, and far from inspiring for anyone to actually dance." Midway, he says, "Whitney introduced her brother Gary Houston to take over so she could do a 'costume change'. He looked surprised and performed a soul track, while wearing a Sean John velour track suit."
Then? Well, "Whitney reappears in a quilted zip jacket and fur military cap." An outfit that, according to our expert, was "marginally improved, but still resembles the quality of H&M." She then thanked and kissed husband Bobby Brown for "loving me and taking me here to the Winter Olympics." Cue the gospel.
Finally, the singer belted out her all-time hit, I Will Always Love You, which quickly became "her all-time low moment during the two-bit concert." Unable to reach the high notes, Tu notes, "Whitney smiled, waved and winked to the fans. Karaoke drag queens can belt it out better! She knelt and bowed her head at the finale to thin applause."
"Bobby," he wraps up, "held her hand and led Whitney backstage. The crowd roared and Ms. Houston rushed out for that quintessential encore, I'm Every Woman." see pic here http://legossip.blogspot.com/2006/02/whitney-sings.html