leafygreens
07-18-2011, 02:00 PM
I would like to not believe the romance rumours because it's squicky to me :yikes:, but if there's one thing I've learned in my time at FSU, it's that when there's smoke, there's fire. Just in this past off-season how many "crazy rumours we have no evidence for that just being perpetuated by fans" have come true? There have been several instances when hard to believe rumours have come true (but only after the initial purveyor of information was called out for spewing nonsense)? Ashley Wagner's move, Samuelson and Bates' split, Chock & Bates teaming up... not even counting this whole situation. It seems to me that pretty much every rumour about Caydee/John/Caitlin has been true thus far, which indicates we definitely have some users with inside information here. Honestly out of this whole saga, this is alleged romance is the least surprising development.
I have zero personal knowledge about this, and for all I know this could definitely be fake, but the romance angle makes more sense to me than the version of events outlined in the icenetwork article. I will say that John and Caydee seem really happy and at ease together, and dare I say look better than in each of their previous partnerships.
For me, I personally don't have any inside info, but I call it as I see it. The reason that everyone is talking romance, is because of the way they talk about each other. It's mushy and ooey-gooey. The pairing with Caydee has made John change his mind about retirement. John was so done with skating that even a national championship and 6th in the world wasn't going to keep him around. Not much else but a romance would drag him out of that kind of despair. It's hard to imagine John exceeding the success he had with Caitlin, so it's got to be something other than D/C's talent pulling them together.
Then there is another factor, which is "whatever Caydee wants, Caydee gets." She said she was not going to be apart from her family again after moving to Colorado. Come hell or highwater, she was getting whatever partner she wanted. I think that the romance happened after Caydee decided on getting a new partner, and John was just in the line of fire. Because Caydee needed something, anything, to make the partnership work. The romance is probably forced and will end shortly.
So we're supposed to believe that John had decided long before Worlds that he wanted to retire from the sport at the end of the season, his absolute breakthrough season? He breaks it off with Caitlin almost literally on the plane home from Moscow (the split was announced less than 48 hours after their return) and then goes to Dalilah who has just coached her most successful and critically-acclaimed pair ever and tells her that he wants to coach full-time now. She says, but wait! Don't quit! Certainly don't rethink your decision to dump Caitlin, but poor little Caydee Denney is here in Colorado, just skating around, totally partnerless. Give it one more week! Caydee and John team up, it's a total miracle of timing and good luck, and all of a sudden all eyes on Sochi!
Sorry, but it doesn't pass the laugh test. The Denney family juggernaut (Caydee, mom and Haven) has always been led around the country by Caydee's skating, not Haven's. The official line on this would have us believe that immediately after splitting with Jeremy, Caydee selflessly moves with her mom and Haven to Colorado so Haven can skate with a new partner. Caydee takes no tryouts the first 2 months she is in Colorado.
From what I hear, John and Caydee are romantically involved. It is a bit gross because she just turned 18 a few weeks ago, definitely after they became an item, but more than that I don't think it's a good sign for the long-term success of their skating partnership, after the romantic relationship most likely, eventually fails. I've said before that Caydee and her mom strike me as people who don't settle for mediocre results. John isn't her first partner, and with the 8-9 year age difference, he won't be her last.
Couldn't agree more.
I have zero personal knowledge about this, and for all I know this could definitely be fake, but the romance angle makes more sense to me than the version of events outlined in the icenetwork article. I will say that John and Caydee seem really happy and at ease together, and dare I say look better than in each of their previous partnerships.
For me, I personally don't have any inside info, but I call it as I see it. The reason that everyone is talking romance, is because of the way they talk about each other. It's mushy and ooey-gooey. The pairing with Caydee has made John change his mind about retirement. John was so done with skating that even a national championship and 6th in the world wasn't going to keep him around. Not much else but a romance would drag him out of that kind of despair. It's hard to imagine John exceeding the success he had with Caitlin, so it's got to be something other than D/C's talent pulling them together.
Then there is another factor, which is "whatever Caydee wants, Caydee gets." She said she was not going to be apart from her family again after moving to Colorado. Come hell or highwater, she was getting whatever partner she wanted. I think that the romance happened after Caydee decided on getting a new partner, and John was just in the line of fire. Because Caydee needed something, anything, to make the partnership work. The romance is probably forced and will end shortly.
So we're supposed to believe that John had decided long before Worlds that he wanted to retire from the sport at the end of the season, his absolute breakthrough season? He breaks it off with Caitlin almost literally on the plane home from Moscow (the split was announced less than 48 hours after their return) and then goes to Dalilah who has just coached her most successful and critically-acclaimed pair ever and tells her that he wants to coach full-time now. She says, but wait! Don't quit! Certainly don't rethink your decision to dump Caitlin, but poor little Caydee Denney is here in Colorado, just skating around, totally partnerless. Give it one more week! Caydee and John team up, it's a total miracle of timing and good luck, and all of a sudden all eyes on Sochi!
Sorry, but it doesn't pass the laugh test. The Denney family juggernaut (Caydee, mom and Haven) has always been led around the country by Caydee's skating, not Haven's. The official line on this would have us believe that immediately after splitting with Jeremy, Caydee selflessly moves with her mom and Haven to Colorado so Haven can skate with a new partner. Caydee takes no tryouts the first 2 months she is in Colorado.
From what I hear, John and Caydee are romantically involved. It is a bit gross because she just turned 18 a few weeks ago, definitely after they became an item, but more than that I don't think it's a good sign for the long-term success of their skating partnership, after the romantic relationship most likely, eventually fails. I've said before that Caydee and her mom strike me as people who don't settle for mediocre results. John isn't her first partner, and with the 8-9 year age difference, he won't be her last.
Couldn't agree more.