Recent content by bardtoob

It was a slump year for Kwan. I mean she didn't win in 1999. That was more Butyrskaya's year. She won Euros and Worlds, and came in second at the GPF to Ilia's mom. (Yeah, I wanted to say Ilia's mom instead of Malinina.) ETA: Slutskaya was really the lady of that era that was progressing the...

I'm glad you like this. https://youtu.be/kptoQhorq4Q

Each to their own. That podium turns my stomach. Basically, I would rather watch the 3rd through 7th place skaters. The 1992 Olympic Men's figure skating competition would have been better under the IJS.

In Nancy's time, the Silver medal was "the 1st loser medal", so it felt corny to consider it a trophy. Really, Michelle Kwan helped change this attitude four years later when she declared that she did not lose the gold but won the silver. (It is important to say that because every thread is...

You're not wrong. The way I look at it, that whole podium had a tragic story where everybody had messed up relationships with their coaches.

Keep in mind, and I think I missed it back then and just realized it recently, I think we witnessed on live TV Lulu telling Nancy that she should have won . . . so the cameras were all up in their business like never before.

They are going to use figure skating money to get consulting advice that they will ignore or will already know. For example: they might suggest a rank based scoring system that will make it easier for the casual audience to understand they might tell them who their audience is, which will...

This is how Zhulin takes the medication for his broken heart :grandpa:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVG_pu7AAol/

I didn't know that. Thank you.

I think the point is that Lulu perceived that the wait for Oksana was really long because she had time to make a major life decision. 😬 At least she didn't say on camera "So she's going to get out here and cry again." OTOH we should remember Lulu didn't compete at 1994 Worlds due to a stress...

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https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02FyAjmg1FjzhQgZ5hcNPaKayKJcJofVRMjZA82RPnqbvfCqSHWqdTfk4ALLXtZiaWl&id=61578980141469&post_id=61578980141469_pfbid02FyAjmg1FjzhQgZ5hcNPaKayKJcJofVRMjZA82RPnqbvfCqSHWqdTfk4ALLXtZiaWl&mibextid=Nif5oz That's not Peggy's face.

They are really starting "tha Lympics" the same weekend as the Super Bowl? Ok.