Recent content by jiejie

What "years of Lindsay" are you talking about? Lindsay is 18 and in only her 2nd full season as a senior...with growth spurt in those years to boot. Amber is 24 and in her 8th or 9th senior season. Nice try though.

I'm looking at trending scores, not placements. (Hint: skating scores website is your friend) Glenn's bronze with a score of 185.39 isn't all that impressive--she had a bad SP, great FS, but got a bit lucky that Chaeyeon Kim messed up her FS. I actually like Amber, but years of following...

I think that is exactly what's going on. Team Ziegler is playing the long game and looking ahead to next season. I'm sure this decision was made after 1) looking at the Entries List for 4CC and 2) consulting with USFS. Entries: Looking at potential competitors to Ava, I see maybe 8...

Hmm. Timeline is interesting. IIRC, Vanessa Crone was teaming up with Sorensen in early 2012, then very quickly (within a few months?), that seemed to abruptly end--for reasons I'm not sure were ever explained--and he went on to Laurence. Could be just a coincidence. ETA: just to make it...

Just because she is getting a degree in California doesn't mean she established legal residency there. Almost certainly, she has never given up her New York residence status and is therefore eligible to represent the district where her NY home base is. More of an issue is trying to finish an...

He must get the minimums at least 21 days before start of Worlds. The last opportunity is Challenge Cup in the Netherlands, and that is also the likely one he will be entered into. I think there are a couple of small minor ones in Europe that might work, but Challenge is the most probable...

List of corporate sponsors of 2024 Games: https://www.paris2024.org/en/partners/ Maybe some of them can figure out how much of their revenues/net income come from Russia/Belarus, versus the rest of the world.

Bach seems pretty impervious to logic, reason and decency, so any appeal there is useless. Too much of the rest of the IOC members seem to be in thrall to him, and the recent pronouncements coming from them clearly show their preference for allowing Russian athletes back in. No joy there...

Agree, and Ziegler's jumps looked a lot more out-of-control at Nationals than earlier in the season. I would have given Seo the nod over Ziegler as well.

Even before Nationals, I assumed that Lindsay was done with junior skating and mentally moved on. She won the bronze at JW last year, and likely felt there wasn't any more upside to doing JW again. I agree with above observation that her growth might have thrown her off a little bit, and she'd...

Hmm. It would be very interesting to US national-level competitors who spend long hours in cold ice rinks and spend $50,000+ per year (most of it their own/family money, unsupported by the government), that all that effort was just a "fun hobby." I always defined "fun hobbies" as things...

We installed a good quality in-attic antenna connected to a preamplifier then to a splitter that feeds into three TV's. The equipment plus extra cabling cost us under $200 and we did the setup ourselves. We get about 40 over the air channels including all the local networks (ABC, CBS, NBC...

Yes you can get Peacock without cable or satellite service. I cut the cable cord about 6 months ago. Have Rokus on my TV's, but any streaming device will do. Signed up for Peacock Premium (the $4.99/mo level) on my desktop computer with automatic monthly charge to credit card, got login and...

I don't agree with this assessment. Assignment methodologies for the GP and JGP are fundamentally different. The JGP events are assigned to federations, not individual skaters, do not have fixed limits on number of competitors, and federations pay travel/participation expenses for their own...

Any word on what's going on with Nguyen/Smirnov partnership? Is he even in USA right now?