Recent content by yossalu

Matos was far short of the minimum score at Euros today. Grm qualified for the free so she still has a shot of hitting the necessary mark. This change hit her harder than any other skater since she continues to show her quality, including a silver medal at the Prague Ice Cup this season. She...

I love them but if they don't return this season I will look forward to more of Soucisse & Firus, who I hope will recover after that Nationals free dance disaster. I don't think they'll ever be podium threats but they're quite enjoyable. It's a pity that the World podium started to slip out of...

A parent is not always to blame for a child's crimes. Many parents will have a great set of children but one black sheep. You can do almost everything right and nature or other circumstances can sway the kid in a bad direction. We can't know if he raised him in a way that made him disrespect and...

As noted above, this is likely (hopefully) a mistake. ISU bio says: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (soundtrack) by Tan Dun Rising Sun by Kiyoshi Yoshida I'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed. I really fear that TPTB are making someone return to an old Moulin Rouge program yet again.

This is simply devastating. He was a prodigy who burst onto the skating scene with mind-blowing performances at the age of 15, a determined athlete who worked through endless injuries, a surprise World & Olympic medalist, a tireless ambassador for Olympic sports in his nation, and one of the...

NBC will be live streaming everything. It will all be available on the NBC Sports app which will give you the opportunity to watch on Android, Apple products, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung, XBOX, and probably a few other things I'm forgetting. I loved flipping between the various apparatus...

I'm happy for Östlund because at least they are looking to the future. They saw some reason there--but why does Majorov have to achieve a score equal to the European bronze medalist this year? I'll look forward to Michael Christian Martinez but this is such a silly decision.

Meanwhile Smart & Diaz, the Spanish national champions, are off of the European and Olympic teams because of this event. Compare their Golden Spin scores with those of Hurtado & Khaliavin in the short dance from judges 6 & 7 (Abasova and Gorojdanov) and judge 5 in the free (Abasova). Smart &...

Plushenko does mention the artistic aspects of the sport and emphasizes that Hanyu does not need the most quads, but he's right that quads are and should be the most important part of men's skating. Sports are about pushing the limits further and further. I miss seeing the artistry of...

I see a few major pluses in his column. First of all, he's doing the biggest tricks. The quad is the easiest thing to sell to the layman. They can position him as a figure skating Shaun White. He has this "California cool" air to him, which can appeal to the always important younger...

It's playing at the Middleburg Film Festival this weekend in case anyone in the DC/Northern Virginia area is interested in seeing it early. The Saturday screening has sold out but it looks like tickets are still available on Sunday at 4pm. https://middleburgfilm.org

The Olympic channel is now active on Dish channel 389! I don't know which packages it's in because it must be a very recent change but at the very least it's in America's Top 200 HD. You will need to add it to your guide if you use a custom one.

I recently did the same, but in the end did stay with Dish because I wasn't sure it would be worth the $240 difference. I used some of the savings to get Icenetwork even if it means missing other events that interest me on the Olympic Channel. Unfortunately, all the streaming services that...

The Olympic Channel app currently has some next day or same day replays and even some live coverage for free. I don't know if this will always be the case or if it will cover more popular sports--I highly doubt the latter will be true for skating but I think the former might be. This means...

With Dish, you just need to try and remove things online. Generally, they'll offer the discount immediately. I've only ever paid half price for HBO. Using online chat is another easy way to get promotional offers. If you ask nicely--or threaten to leave in a kindly manner--they'll generally...