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NYT pictoral retrospective of Oksana, Nancy and Lu right after the competition:

I saw that earlier. It's basically as follows:

Baiul: a bunch of stuff on what happened, how she got to that point etc.

Chen: how this was the moment she decided to continue skating (yay!)

Kerrigan: we waited a very long time.
 
The skaters who have accepted their invitations to skate in the Gala as posted on X on Absolute Skating:
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Wow. I'm rather shocked they invited Petrosian. I figured after they passed on Gumennik, they'd certainly not include Petrosian but would instead invite Gubanova or Samodelkina.
 
Given Petrosian's performance and reactions at the Olympics, I hope the other skaters in the gala stage an intervention.

Alysa can tell her all about having a healthy training environment and balancing training an real life. Ilia can explain how not winning an OGM does not make you a failure as a person. And Petrokina can explain about kiling people!
 
I guess they are trying to appeal to a wide audience and couldn't justify 3 Ladies from Japan as they are also largely represented in the other categories. A shame for Mone, I enjoyed her skating a lot. I would have preferred Samodrmelkina but it seems the judges weren't a fan of hers these games either.
 
I guess they are trying to appeal to a wide audience and couldn't justify 3 Ladies from Japan as they are also largely represented in the other categories. A shame for Mone, I enjoyed her skating a lot. I would have preferred Samodrmelkina but it seems the judges weren't a fan of hers these games either.
Disagree. She earned a SB and scored over 200. The tech panel went to town on her spins & step sequence levels. She gets those up to L4 consistently and she'll make a huge leap up the standings. And I'm sure Raf will begin working on that during the off-season.
 
No Mone makes no sense.

Looks like there is an Italian National Team number so that will include Rizzo, Gutmann, etc?

And no OGM Kam/O’Shea except there is a Team USA number that will probably include them. Maybe just the OGMs or maybe the whole team?
 

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