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As long as they don't invite one of Dylan's buddies as the third wheel. His commentary of the Pairs LP at the GPF - in which Asher Hill joined - started off well but veered into immature, non-stop talking territory by the end. I wanted to watch Peng/Jin skate and hear their music, not hear...

That may be for the best!

I like Bradie, so this is not shade - but shouldn't we change the name of this thread given that her jumps are now often under review?

Beautiful program - but why only 6 jumping passes?

Her 4th last year was controversial and arguably should have been higher. As for her jumps, its more a matter of training with Ashley. If she devotes herself to training, she'll be competitive with not just the US field but internationally. She's held off the young girls doing triples triples...

My view is that the USFS' chances on retaining 3 spots were drastically diminished when they chose to use PCS to prop up an Olympic and World team of Bradie-Mirai-Karen. If she had been rightfully chosen for the Olympics (which she would have had she received the same Nationals' PCS inflation...

Deservedly so. Amano was certainly not drinking the USFS' kool-aid that Mirai was suddenly rotating her jumps (even at Nationals), neither were the judges here buying the argument that Bradie was better than Ashley in PCS (and never prone to underrotations or edge calls either) or that Mirai...

Let's be real. Karen in all likelihood didn't have her boot problems sorted out heading into the Olympics - that sure as heck didn't stop her from competing there.

Which is ridiculous regardless of the interpretation on who is being attacked, whether its Ashley or the judges. Before everyone gets on Ashley as the underrotation queen, when she's fit and trained (yes, she has clearly been undertrained since winning silver at Worlds in '16 but was regaining...

Perhaps you should focus on finding the source of Ashley's quotes and the context of her comments to support your argument rather than pointing to a Bustle commentary featuring an opinion that supports your own. At the end of the day, Ashley has always been strong enough to point out what many...

I am scratching my head about this too. Maybe brennele can enlighten us/provide us with a source, given how fervent s/he was on this item.

The interesting thing is that even with moving back to attempting just the 4toe, if Patrick skated cleanly in both the SP and FS - and considering his personal bests (neither of which had the 4sal) of 102.13 in the SP (Worlds 2017) and 203.99 (4CC 2016) - Patrick would have walked away with the...

Karen beat Ashley once outside of Nationals. Helsinki Worlds where the difference was 5.75 points and that's with Karen rotating 6 triples to Ashley's 4 in the FS (with the fourth being her 3z with an edge call, so essentially 3 clean triples). Not to mention Ashley's PCS has remained...

Ashley totally would have ranked well had she been sent to the Olympics and skated reasonably well. Ashley scored 64+ at Skate America with 2 underrotations in the SP. In the '16-'17 season, she scored 69+ and 70+ at Skate America and WTT respectively with 1 underrotation in the SP. Good call...

That fact is that Ashley has been nothing but gracious to the 3 who made the team and in respect of their performances. She has every right, however, to call out the judges for blatantly undermarking her on her PCS relative to the other skaters - when the others all received inflated PCS...