Recent content by Colonel Green

I was sure it wouldn't happen for them, but it did. Looking at the gap in scores, I'm not even sure that Lilah's twizzle was the difference, in the end. Only downside for Canadian ice dance is that I'd now be slightly surprised if they went to Worlds.

I was expecting it. Cizeron didn't come back to be second, and Chock/Bates ascended to the top more by outlasting everybody ahead of them than anything else. Gilles & Poirier are going to need another mistake from Fear & Gibson to stay in third after the free, based on how the judging went...

At least there’s a bit of time until the pairs event, but yeesh, abysmal luck for them.

Would it not be something of a competitive integrity issue if the IOC was directly facilitating the performance materials of only some of the competitors in an event?

Rob Brodie on Minsol:

Congratulations to Maddie on getting her second Olympic ticket. And I'm sure she's especially thrilled that her BFF Lia is going too. Solid championship debut for Minsol. I somewhat suspect that the component marks would have been higher if she was eligible for international competitions this...

Not that it was unexpected based on this season’s results, but it’s fascinating to think back to all those years of McNamara/Carpenter and the Parsons siblings dominating junior and how it’s now likely that none of them will ever make it to an Olympics.

I don't think there was a loss of fire, initially; rather the opposite. After her performance at the Olympics she probably thought/hoped that she was breaking through to the next level, but that ultimately never happened, which has to be dispiriting.

Far from inconceivable that 2/3 of the 2026 women's national podium will be ineligible to compete both at the Olympics and internationally at all.

Nadiia's first vlog of her new partnership.

Happy to see Rika find a way forward, because returning to singles was just not to be after years of trying.

They're not favourites, but they have a realistic shot, and the fed is certainly not going to write that off in advance.

I so despise rules like this.

Huh, when they were training primarily in France I assumed that country was going to be the one they competed for, even though Nadiia was obviously the more successful one of the two in prior partnerships. Glad to still have her under the flag. After we gave Laurence to France so speedily, one...

They've been in the "no more Challengers" phase of their career for a few seasons now.