So telling the media to go to hell is putting your mental health first no, that’s just showing out. If you’re putting your mental health first just quit talking to media - you don’t tell them off. You told her you think she should tell the media to go to hell. That’s counterproductive
Yeah at that point I kind of lost all respect for him.
Having followed his skating for a few years, I found him to be rather apologetic in person. That said, I suspect he is not good with words, and say things that came off wrong. Wouldn't be the first or the last skater to do so.
I think he wanted to come across as 'I have to move on, I can't dwell on this and I have to stay positive' and what came out was basically IDGAF about the team competition, who cares? Of course that's my interpretation, but we all know 99% of interviews in figure skating are these proper answers and I think his proper answer probably just didn't convey the meaning that was intended.
Does anybody really think Jeremy Abbott did not truly care about the team event? Everybody, including Jeremy, knew that was his best chance at an Olympic medal. The competition in the men's event was so strong that unless Jeremy skated lights out in both programs in the individual event, he was not likely to medal without help from other skaters. Ultimately, the event was not well skated, but who was to know that at the start of the event? His best chance to medal as an individual was in 2010. I think he put so much pressure on himself to do well in the team event that he crumbled. Ironically, had he really not cared at all, he probably would have skated great!
If Karen is named to the 2022 team as well, she will have been the top contributor for the 3rd spot at the previous Worlds for 2 times in a row (2017 and 2021 Worlds). [although due to rule change, it was Alysa who actually crystalized that 3rd spot, at Nebelhorn.]And yet, Karen is the one who got the US ladies the opportunity to have 3 Olympic slots.
I was just being hyperbolic, I didn't really mean she should literally SAY that.
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Yes I think the issue isn’t the bonus anymore but encouraging coaches to train the right technique and a system where kids learn the right skills and stay with then
And while were at it, how about the Pairs too ... Back to the women's thread ...
I would love to hear what some of our legendary coaches, like Frank Carroll and John Nicks, think about the current state of ladies skating. Not just US ladies, but ladies overall. For the second Olympic quad in a row, it looks like we will have 15 year old champion in her first senior season. An Olympic gold medal used to be the cap on a career, not the start. Aside from maintaining difficult jumps at older ages, there is less motivation to continue once the big prize has been won. And with the young quadsters coming up, it looks like this situation will continue. The US will have to get behind it if they want to compete.
I'm sure the older coaches wish they were making all that money from compulsory figures, but the time has changed. Quad jumps take a lot out of the skaters' bodies, including the men. The ISU needs to just bring back pro skating competitions and not have them scored under COP. That's where most of the huge stars were created and had longevity.
Yeah, I'm not sure the criticism of Zagitova (and possibly Valieva) winning the Olympics their first season on the senior circuit is really fair. Not many people around here would have been complaining had Sasha Cohen managed that feat twenty years ago (except me, the Sarah Hughes-uber, lol). Had the current age limits been in place, Oksana Baiul would have been in her first senior season when she won the Olympics, same for Tara Lipinski in 1998. Honestly, it's a pretty remarkable thing, to be able to win the Olympics your first season competing at the senior level.
And yet she still quit when she was 22! It helped that she had a rich father and started competing at 11!
It’s my Ultra-C element as well!
One season I want Karen to show up to each competition with a different program just for funsies.
It was her SP for the 2014-15 season
