Recent content by jiejie

True about DR. I thought they already had an ice skating federation but I am in error, there is none. So that's unlikely. Yes, Lindsay may be heading for university and retiring for good or temporarily taking a break.

The past couple of years, I thought Lindsay just needed a major reboot, including coaching change. So much unrealized potential there. I hope she is not done with skating, but is either taking time off to heal, or take university classes, or something fruitful. I believe her mother is...

Thumbs down from me. I don't like forced pull-downs, without any option to just enter the field. Like entering the country of a skater. And the "View More" is horribly cumbersome. I want as few clicks as possible to get to where I want to be, without a bunch of photos to trip over along...

An angle I haven't seen mentioned anywhere: a foreigner with a US citizen marriage shortcut to a green card, can begin sponsorship of US immigrant visas for family members. The colloquial term is "chain migration" and while legal, it has a lot of detractors. Ice dance careers are perhaps the...

I see no Rika Kihira. ? Did she retire, or not recover enough yet? I would have thought she'd qualify as a returning skater.

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...