Recent content by Vagabond

🤔 Would anyone care to speculate as to the results in Salt Lake City if there had been Compulsory Figures before the Short Program?

Shame on her!

I only recently started reading this thread in anticipation of Nationals, and had no idea about the abuse until I read this post. I then went back in this thread and watched the first minute or two of the video, which was more than enough for me. :sick: As I have mentioned before, I am a...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/31/queen-camilla-so-angry-assault-train-when-teenager This is something that happens if one does not grow up in a royal family, but now that she belongs to one, she has a platform to open up. :respec:

According to :sekret:, Irina Slutskaya has spent many a sleepless night pondering the answer to this exact question.

Janet Lynn never went around claiming that she was robbed or spouting xenophobic conspiracy tropes. She  did used to say that she was skating for herself, that she she wanted to skate her best, and that she was pleased when she did. Slutskaya would do well to be as gracious and sporting as Lynn.

Does it really matter? She has been telling the same old story every chance she gets. She is also pro-war and pro-Putin, so it all goes hand in hand.

I think she volunteered for the cause. There is nothing in her history to suggest otherwise.

🤔 Does anyone want to predict when he will start practicing sextuple jumps?

I was wondering why Katarina Witt would post things about U.S. Junior Ice Dancing couples, and then I scrolled down. :fragile: Apparently, I am old. :slinkaway

@Fiero425 The :oksana1: emoticon is for Oksana Baiul, not Kwan. ;)

These posts bring to mind a remark by Debbie Armstrong, who earned a gold medal in giant slalom at the 1984 Winter Olympics to the effect of, "I was always the girl who finished third if one of the girls ranked above me fell." Entering the Olympics, her only World Cup top ten finish in giant...

"NYET! FUN IS NOT ALLOWED!" :angryfire

Why else? Because sometimes to expect victory is to expect too much. Doing one's best, trying new things, entertaining the spectators, and enjoying challenges are all good reasons to compete.

The purpose of the Olympics is not to go big or go home, it's to "provide a useful pathway for the creation and expansion of friendly relationships through mutual understanding." So going to the Olympics just for the experience and to have fun might be a good idea, especially since those...