Recent content by Holy Headband

OK, this is actually helpful because it suggests Mazingue was fobbed off at the fed level and not by the judge. Now that the story has blown up to this extent, if they could shift the blame onto the judge by saying she never informed them of Mazingue's report and thus wash their hands of the...

I’d say they provide a tiered service where how much respect and consideration you get from MFD and PL depends on how you place internationally and whether your federation has an accredited judge who could be folded into IAM’s power base (which… Estonia does!), not simply on basic considerations...

I've always believed his accuser because the story she told is simply all too common, but I didn't realise there was enough evidence left to get him banned from the sport so many years later. I saw some people mention a video of some sort? Since I haven't been following the story closely, could...

I'm not sure how this incident reached the ears of KSU, but if it was Skater C himself who reported it, it must have taken a lot of courage. I won't speculate about his identity, but there weren't that many junior male skaters at that camp, and Skaters A and B have a lot of fans, so...

The Olympics only happen once every four years, so it’s inevitable that skaters will be four years older at their first Olympics than they would have been at the previous Olympics. I don’t understand why this is such a big deal for some people. And Shimada has nothing left to prove in juniors...

They need to get healthy, get programs that play to their strengths (like their SPEED... where did that go???) AND are standouts in the field stylistically, and switch to a coaching team that knows how to politick. And they need to do all these things in the coming offseason because next year is...

The only person I can remember caring all that much about that injustice was Uno, who is Shimada’s training mate and friend. I don’t blame him for standing up for his friend, but I think most impartial observers realised Shimada’s national medal was a bit of a fluke and JSF’s criteria allowed...

Novel idea: how about they don’t send their #7 man to either Worlds or Euros but instead pick a younger skater who’s shown more consistency and hasn’t delivered multiple nightmare skates to ****ing BOLERO this season? But then again, I assume the French fed must have financed new cars for the...

I mean, I understand the desire to keep good traditions going. But the ISU could maybe step in and help with organisation or finding sponsors or whatever is needed. (I'm guessing what would be most helpful in this case would be to send over a few extra pairs of hands, especially if they have...

Someone on Twitter made the point that it's unimaginable that a skater with Grassl's competitive experience would simply forget to update his address through not just one but three doping tests and it's more likely that Eteri and co. instructed him to ignore the summons expecting they would be...

Deniss Vasiljevs landed 4S+2T with +1.2x GOE at some obscure Latvian event lmao

Deniss will be tackling ISU reforms after he retires from competitive skating, it seems.

I take back every uncharitable thought I've had about Sarah after her unhinged rant about how amazing Yuma is. She gets it.

I'm guessing Shmuratko will replace Nordeback and Matsuike may replace Mihara if there's enough time. And I guess Ziegler or Gutmann is in for Repond? I'm starting to lose track of who's been assigned a second GP yet.

Not Mihara and Nordeback!!! I hate it here.