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    The Dance Hall 9: Bring the Bling or No Beijing 2021-2022

    I wasn't sure what to expect from the doc series, but so far I'm a bit confused by some of the editing choices. I get that they probably want to have a little of all six teams in each episode but it's a little all over the place in terms of what they're choosing to explain vs leave unsaid. Like...
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    U.S. Women [#1]: The Contenders Unmask Themselves

    IIRC Bradie was already having boot problems in Stockholm in March, so I’d guess that her problems began after Nationals.
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    Tarah Kayne details abuse allegations against sanctioned coach Sappenfield

    Horrific. My heart goes out to Tarah, I hope she’s getting the support she needs now and I’m glad Danny is standing by her.
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    U.S. Ice Dance 2021-22 season news & updates

    I remember thinking the FD rumor was a bit questionable because it was the same music C/B used for their show program for the ISU Awards which they specifically introduced as a show program iirc.
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    From Russia With Love [#39]: Into Winter 2021

    The dreadful “Je suis malade” SP Mishina/Galliamov were given for their first senior season was definitely grounds for switching coaching teams IMO.
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    A Divine Sport blog

    What an interesting interview! I was particularly surprised (and impressed) that their pairs and singles skaters share ice time.
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    Russian Ladies news & discussion

    It’s always fun seeing people who claim to like Aliona Kostornaia blaming her for “being petulant” and “wrecking her career” when the fact is she lost massive amounts of ice time and is still recovering from illness. Besides which it’s far too early to call her done, though I suspect the...
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    The Dance Hall 8: Join the Maskerade 2020-2021

    The first 3/4ths are from the movie "Atonement."
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    Who has the all-time definitive hooded costume?

    Oksana gets bonus points for the painted face and "sexy" (?) swinging around of the hooded robe before hurling it on the ice.
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    Papadakis/Cizeron news

    I hope their recovery is going well and there's no permanent damage.
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    Objectively speaking, who deserved to win the 2018 OGM?

    She had a stepout/stumbled landing on her triple loop but was otherwise clean (with an edge call on her lutz).
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    Objectively speaking, who deserved to win the 2018 OGM?

    So I went back and rescored... and I got a very surprising result ;) SP: Kaetlyn Osmond, 82.63 total (43.83 tech, 38.80 PCS) Satoko Miyahara, 79.34 total (32.54 tech, 36.80 PCS) Kaori Sakamoto, 77.80 total (43.20 tech 34.60 PCS) Alina Zagitova, 71.87 total (37.87 tech, 34.00 PCS) Evgenia...
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    Objectively speaking, who deserved to win the 2018 OGM?

    I was mostly using Patrick as an example of things not being preordained, but if you want an example of two clean programs at the Olympics netting you silver, there's always Michelle Kwan in Nagano. Who was also beat by her younger countrywoman with higher tech content. Of course, that's been...
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    Objectively speaking, who deserved to win the 2018 OGM?

    This was by far my least favorite thing about the ladies discipline that quad. If Evgenia Medvedeva entered an event, she was going to win it, period, even on the rare occasions when she made a mistake (Rostelecom 2017 springs to mind) because the judges were loading her up with so much GOE on...
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    Medvedeva leaves Orser for Tutberidze

    Call it naivete, I call it simple logic. Why would Evgenia choose to show up to test skates with no one to so much as hand her tissues if she was already planning to move back to Eteri? It's ridiculous. I'm not her fan, but sometimes it feels like people are so eager to ascribe malice to a...
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