Recent content by Areski

Yeah, this is ridiculous and unfair to female skaters. Can't they send some complain to their fed or olympic commitee pointing out the double standard and very harsh criteria basically not found elsewhere in the world?

Volodin

Ok, but do you seriously think that Piper's twizzles deserved base level when we saw more severe errors in execution or missing features getting little to no punishment at all? Either way I don't buy into those conspiracy theories that are gaining popularity here that the judges work in...

I like both of their programs for this season (however I clearly prefer their FD), their RD concept might seem silly but that's one of my maybe 5 RDs in senior teams that I've watched this season that is memorable, works well with the music selection & which doesn't come across as clunky. My...

I agree, it feels like ... Ice Dancing went too far and has rejected its roots in ballroom dancing.

It is one thing if the panel is tough/harsh but one can understand the calls and a different thing if one cannot see it personally. And also there were harsh callers that were indeed harsh but clearly being lenient towards some some specific skaters. But now we have less of it at least (cough...

It makes no sense whatsoever. If that's the agenda then why did he give that ridiculous call for Piper's twizzles in the RD?

I'm not sure whether that's a good program for them either. I was shocked by how plain it was, it looked like anything but an Olympic Free Dance of a team that aspires for medals.

Those TES minimums for Women for Worlds got really high, imho too high. I get they don't want to have 40+ ladies competing in the SP but it looks like an overkill to me.

Did they all watch that program of Witt?! :eek:

Their infamous Original Dance though overshadowed them completely. Just thinking about it makes me cringe. But they were fantastic skaters anyway - especially in compulsories, if not for Shabalin's knee issues they'd have achieved more I reckon.

This decision makes little sense for me, a retirement after 1 international senior season, am I right? I am very disappointed and it's obviously a big loss for American figure skating. This made me sad. I get the impression that followed Alysa as we the spying drama etc. it is not shocking like...

To which board did they move?

He's boring though, only serves cliches and always butchers names of skaters that are not from the Anglosphere.

What happened to that thread?!