fast American ladies in skating...an oxymoron?

[geod2]

I was wondering about that. Actually, I think somebody is just typing asterisks ( ******* ), then our imaginations put all sorts of horrendous things in there.

Admins weren't fooled and cleaned it up with an *additional asterisk edit".

[neptune]

Now this is interesting--an entire thread devoted to discussing fast girls. Not something you'd normally expect on FSU.

[Polymer Bob]

Now this is interesting--an entire thread devoted to discussing fast girls. Not something you'd normally expect on FSU.

Well, when I was in high school, when a girl was called "fast", that generally meant something else.

[Jenna]

Well, when I was in high school, when a girl was called "fast", that generally meant something else.

My daughter just graduated high school. From the stories I hear, it still does!

[neptune]

Quite fast but appeared slower than usual due to smoothless/ flow: Kwan, Nikodinov, Czisny

Average but gives the impression of being slow: Yamaguchi, Kerrigan, Cohen, Gao

I guess it must vary from event to event too. For instance, someone once mentioned that Kerrigan was painfully slow during her LP at '93 Nationals. In addition, one of the judges at Nagano later commented that she felt Kwan was so slow in her LP that she wanted to go out on the ice and push her.