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Unless they completely fall apart (including falling), there is absolutely ZERO chance of U.S. Figure Skating sending their 3-time and reigning World Champions to the Olympics as anything other than national champions.

On the one hand, it's nice to see some money directed towards our sport. On the other, Coca-Cola is a truly horrible company. They're the world's single largest contributor to single use plastics that are clogging our oceans, killing marine life and introducing microplastics into our...

Emmanuel Savary exhibition. 😍 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wg0ZVJP35k

Maybe the teams that you mentioned have a goal of an Olympic medal.

Wasn't Hurtado the one who ended the partnership, or was it Diaz?

Russian and Japanese influence? We know that Russians like ornate costumes and Ilia's seems to both like Japanese street fashion and Japanese skaters, who are themselves given to highly ornate costumes. The pleats in the sleeves are very Issey Miyake. Or maybe he had a fever dream with Black...

Great music choice but their styling doesn't match the music. They should have leaned into grunge and gone with flannel, ripped jeans and messy hair.

Raccoons almost certainly, but it could also be an opossum.

Starr may lack the tech content to compete with the top guns but she represents U.S. Figure Skating well. She has a mature presence on the ice, is fairly consistent, doesn't give up on a program if she makes a mistake, and has lovely presentation skills.

Doesn't Jason frequently receive an edge call on his lutz, or at least a !? If so, he's better off with the flip executed well. Anyway, I look forward to seeing him develop these programs over the course of the season.

I don't think that Maia would have to file a complaint for US Figure Skating to determine that Alex's behavior is not consistent with US Figure Skating's code of conduct or the image they want their athletes to project.

That jump is a thing of beauty.

I'll add one more dimension, which is that people who are emotionally abused often lose their identity and sense of self-worth, and can develop a sort of Stockholm syndrome, in which they want to please their abuser because their sense of self becomes dependent on trying to win their abuser's...

Love her costume.

I think it's more a case of people being concerned about politics leading to an unfair result. The early promotion of their return to competition by USFS, followed by not attending Champs Camp when every other athlete on the national team was required to attend and not competing prior to the...