Recent content by Marco

The feeding the ducks moves were inspiring!

I HATE illusion exits in spins. Most of them simply looked like they lost their balance and had to put the hand down. It killed all sorts of flow and control that a spin exit is supposed to show.

That's an entirely different question. But as it was, since only she was found to have been doping, factually I said it isn't other team members' fault. If we are arguing the merits of the decision to let Russia keep the bronze on the premise that the entire team or most of them were in fact...

Well the rules weren't clear enough about disqualification of the entire team and reallocation of ranking points upon the finding of just one team member doping, and that's why it has taken so long and multiple proceedings to arrive at where we are. Not everyone is / has to be happy with the...

Time to dig Zhang Hao out of retirement! :P Seriously though, Sui & Han were so beautiful. Let's not ruin this with another poor and desperate comeback attempt.

I feel bad for the athletes who didn't get their medals / recognition until this Olympics due to these above doping incidents and the resulting loss in funding / prizes / commercial opportunities / motivation to continue etc. My guess is they could have asked for a higher coaching fee if they...

Angela Nikodinov's "post transformation" short programs...

Yes. At the time I was reading the rules very closely and was convinced that she COULD do these COP elements. She was doing these features on and off in different programs but never altogether in one program (I suppose that's the challenge :p). She wasn't as flexible as Irina or Sasha and she...

Way to raise her children in competitive sports. Sportsmanship? No. Respect? No.

Michelle was 24 when she skated to Bolero... but maybe she was too injured / busy COP-element chasing to care about music and choreography. I also think Kevin Aymoz' Bolero this past season was EXCEPTIONALLY nice.

The JPN Fed should totally create a solo dance discipline and have Daisuke Takahashi, Takahiko Kozuka, Tatsuki Machida, Yuzuru Hanyu and Shoma Uno compete in the men's event. The women's discipline can have Yukina Ota, Mao Asada, Akiko Suzuki, Satoko Miyahara and Marin Honda.

Oh wow. Interesting. I do hope that this time the famous skater choreographing his/her masterpiece music for someone else works better than when Chris Dean choreographed Bolero for Michelle :P

I am surprised that USFS or SafeSport didn't tell [or didn't enter some sort of information sharing arrangement with all federations to tell] ISA that their then-current coach was being investigated for [underage] rape. I am also surpised that a then-current coach was not obliged to tell ISA...

With Shoma out of the equation, Yuna and Kao are top two, and Sota and Shun will be fighting for the third spot... this is still exciting...

I love his skating but this is probably for the best. With all these injuries and him struggling with the quad flips and loops, he is better off focusing on show skating and I strongly believe this is where he will shine even more. Maybe one way or another he feels he is overtaken by Yuma and...