It`s not an upside but one outcome of CAS taking for ever is that Russia likely will be out of ISU events for the entire 2023/24 season. I think the ISU meets in October and with no action/decision they will leave things as they are. Russia out as long as possible will keep state-sponsored doping out of skating. Athletes can go to competitons more confident the results will be based on merit.
I like your "Peanuts"-themed wordplay.
I mean... What I recall from her during the Olympics was her dogging Davis/Smolkin about not speaking English. Not someone I'd want around any athlete tbh, yes that includes Valieva. The USA should have considered sending someone else. I doubt nobody else would have agreed, Brennan is more just the unfortunately omnipresent voice within US figure skating.
If the ROC doesn't want to comply with the decisions of the CAS, whatever they might be, then perhaps it should quit the Olympic movement and disband. 
USA Today is paying her tab for this Lausanne trip, not USFS or USOPC or USADA.
ISU Council usually meets every 2-3 months - they meet again in October and usually they have a meeting in December too. They can also schedule an emergency meeting to vote to lift the ban if they want - that's how the original ban was implemented, by an emergency meeting in early March 2022. I am not holding my breath that we won't see Russia allowed back by Jr Worlds/Worlds 2024, but I certainly don't think they'll be at Euros.
I say good on her for getting USA Today to foot the tab to Lausanne in late September when the weather is, I'm sure, beautiful.
OK, USA TODAY should have considered someone else.
Do we even really know what level of hearing loss Diana Davis has? Clearly she hears well enough to be an ice dancer, and she's stated publicly in the Russian press, that her hearing loss has been played up by others but it isn't a significant challenge.
What do you mean "USA, the country" should have sent a better journalist? First, we don't know if Brennan is the only person any kind of American-based organization sent, and second, Brennan has an individual right to go and doesn't need anybody to send her. Regarding sending reporters and journalists on site to cover stories, there's no monolith "America" that just sends people in any official capacity in the country's name.
Does it make what Brennan did any better?
Diana is a big girl and was, in Beijing, a legal adult. She was fair game just like any other Russian skater in Beijing, but especially so because of who her mother is. It's hardly the fault of anyone in the media for asking her what she knows of her mother's training camp and if she didn't want to be asked those questions, then maybe she should have chosen a different career path.
They'd play the victim in any case, so I don't see that her presence makes much difference in that regard.
So what's the difference between Russian media and someone like Brennan then?
She wasn't just "asked". There was an entire story where Brennan was being an asshole to her.
I think, as a journalist, Brennan wanted Diana to answer questions that was directed to her, and not go through someone acting as her representative who could be seen as trying to feed her some “safe” responses with Diana being shielded. But her demeanor was aggressive and she made a pretty callous remark about Diana being an “American” and claiming not being able to speak English, but one could argue it was Brennan not buying that and questioning Diana’s truthfulness. At the same time, you have to wonder how much Diana knows about any of the things Brennan was questioning her about as she’s the daughter of Eteri, not her business or coaching partner, so the increasing aggression and antagonizing of Diana may not have been the wisest of journalistic moves, but Brennan probably felt she had to be that way because she wasn’t going any substabtive answer any other way.
This right here.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t think anybody here suggested any Russian journalists shouldn’t be covering the story for their own news outlets. There’s also the question of whether there’s any separation between some Russian news outlets and the government that would make that distinct from Brennan, an independent journalist working for an independent publication who doesn’t represent the state in any official capacity.
The “USA” doesn’t send anyone, private news organisations do. And her newspaper sent her to cover it. There’s nothing official about it. As everyone said.
I'm curious.
Because she wasn’t sent by the Americans but by one news organisation that’s been paying her to cover skating for 30 years. We don’t have any official press unless you count Voice of America which doesn’t broadcast domestically. Even our very-partially-funded public TV and radio network are completely independent of the government.
It is not only "implying" but taking the language of the posts, it's stating that outright. Like as if the American population or some group of people/an entity who has authority to have official capacity to represent the interests of Americans as a whole got together and decided to send somebody to represent official state interests. The second statement also states this.
Just speaking for myself, though I'm sure others are in my position, I don't really know you that well to say what your knowledge is or what your living experiences have been.
If you read the comments of the russians, Simone drinks magic pills and turns into the main character of Marvel comics. How can normal and honest russian girls compete with her?Hilarious. Usually when someone says something they don't like, they go after their medal credentials and say their a nobody. Since they can't with Vincent now their talking about lawsuits.Where was that same energy when Russians accused Simone Biles of being on PED?? Such hypocrites which is why noone believes them or takes them seriously.
Not really. P/С received gold medals because it was necessary to promote skaters with non-traditional sexual orientation. But Russian couples have a traditional sexual orientation, so they always lost. It's obvious
To be fair, it was revealed (I believe a security breach) that Biles has (had) a TUE for an ADD drug which helps her focus. Not saying this is illegal but there is a bit of messiness in the pond, as it were.
The pills help a person with ADHD focus. This is the same as giving a person with a high fever an antipyretic. The temperature simply returns to normal. And, of course, such pills do not make anyone superhuman.
Sure, but the Russians whine about it because the ADHD drugs are eligible for TUEs while their drugs are always singled out for banning by WADA. Same with asthma drugs. It's all a big witch hunt aimed against the poor, maligned Russians by the evil West.
