Recent content by Andrey aka Pushkin

I'm probably not in the loop. Under what circumstances are 6-8 points easily surmountable in the free, esp. given that Japan is going to be dead last in the ice dance?

I'm sure NBC spectators would be thrilled to have this discussion on air during the FD.

I just understand more and more than once skaters finish their careers, one should just move on. Didn't know Charlie was divorcing Tanith. That's the only interesting piece of information from this thread, really. Didn't read the book, nor intend to. Gabi was my favourite half of the couple...

Bukin has a slight speech impediment mispronounsing the sound "r", but that's not uncommon. The articulation is wrong - Alexandra makes pauses at the wrong parts of the sentences, while Ivan overemphasizes everything by pronouncing every word separately. Both mistakes are common for...

I completely agree with it. Winning would have been a total nightmare. I don't think it was the plan, rather showing the trauma Israelis carry, and trying to give a channel for public support overcoming the ugly anti-Israeli media bias. Which was achieved, I think. Regarding other efforts...

Ah, cool. Can you check who sponsored the other countries Eurovision ads then? Out of curiosity. Because I understand no one cares about them. Really? Why is that surprising and/or criminal? I said in my previous post, I'm certain the Israeli Ministry of Culture is in this; I think they...

I don't know who paid for these ads, but they definitely exist. It's just since no one is bothered by their country's existence, those don't create such a buzz. I don't know, since you seem to be very certain of who paid and how much for the ads for Israel, I assumed you are getting the...

Oh, no, the voting for Israel was political and had nothing to do with music :drama: Unlike burning Israeli flags in Basel, those are just music lover appalled by whatshername's vocal abilities. When you make a country's existence and its public presence a political issue, what a shocker it...

So did Poland, France, Serbia, Armenia, Portugal, Austria and others. But it's ok, because they are not Israel. And since Jews, as we know, rule the world since 1932, it's only the Israeli campaign that brainwashed people into voting. Plus I think you vastly overestimate the budget of the...

That's incorrect. Olympic truce is not a thing in general, and dozens of other countries were not banned in similar situations. About 99% of everything published is just speculations of people who try to make sense out of situation that makes no sense. All this bothered me so much so I went to...

Lol, the real question was not why the Russians were allowed, but rather why they were disqualified in the first place - and no one had a comprehensive answer other than "they are evil", which is a non starter for a meta-national organization such as IOC. But apparently there is a legal answer...

The fact that most people have zero idea of ice-dance rules doesn't mean everyone does. Even I am capable of predicting where each couple will end up watching live (for the most part...), let alone someone who studied the rules and skated himself. So factually it's far from being the most...

"You don't agree that IOC decision to ban Russia was legal??? It means you're a puppet of Putin and support the aggression!" Ok, in that sense I can see where you're heading with the racial card. The unproportional power of US, UK and EU in all international organization can indeed be seen as...

No, it's not. No one argues that Russia started an abhorrent agression, no one argues that Russia is at fault and no one argues that Russia broke the Olympic Charter. The points are different. 1. The Olympic Charter demands end of hostilities for the period of the Olympic Games, which is not...

I personally think, IOC should be above national and international politics, because once you start questioning "why this but not the other" it will never end, and will produce some absolutely outrageous results. For political circus you have the UN, and that's where it should end. IOC must act...