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In every age a hero or sage came to our aid. 🕎

One of The National Geographic's Pictures of the Year Wow!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/11/maria-corina-machado-venezuela-nobel-peace-prize-winner-oslo-norway Maria Corina Machado had been living in hiding, apparently escaped Venezuela by boat on Tuesday, and missed the award ceremony. I wonder whether she will go back into hiding now...

It isn't. I get the same message as @Sylvia on different macines, using different browsers.

The letter says that Petrosian took part in master classes organized within the framework of a project of the Mayor of Moscow and the Summer in Moscow festival, which openly supports Russia's invasion of Ukraine and raises funds for the needs of the Russian military. It also says that Gummenik...

It's not just the judges. Athletes need to be good sportsmen and, for starters, not post derogatory remarks about coaches on social media (Gilles) or walk off in a huff when a subsequent competitor achieves a better result (Guignard).

Of course it's her right, but she would have been wise not to exercise it. As should be apparent from the discussion of :bk1: , she is giving herself a bad reputation. And even if her amateur career is over, she may want to do shows, coach, or judge, in which case her recent remarks are not...

If Jane Austen were writing Pride and Prejudice in this day and age, this is how Mr. Collins would describe Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

:eek: How dare you? 👈

Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz spoke up a lot about bloc-judging, and the media lapped it up. They were at least partly vindicated when Yuri Balkov's skullduggery was exposed, and they did go on to win a World Championship. I have no idea what any of their coaches had to say, but I do wonder...

🤔 Has @esta been reincarnated?

At least not on the ice, which is probably why she receives the PCS that she does.

Alysa Liu goes off-script. (This will be geoblocked for some.) :rofl: :rockstar:

As long as they don't do Compulsory Dances to "I'm Too Sexy," I think that I will be okay with almost any changes.

Didn't Karen Chen get to choose whether to participate in the Team Event and, if so, whether to do one program or two, because she was the highest placed woman in the previous season's World Championship? Liu didn't go to Worlds in 2021.