Recent content by Mell

I guess Dave changed his opinion again since he just called Ilia "Russian tra*h". If any of the skaters would make a bigoted comment, they wouldn't be called "humans" by any of you but would be cancelled. We would have whole threads about how horrible they are and even their apologie wouldn't...

These boys do feel like part of Russia. If anybody interested, Andrew, Maxim and Ilia giving an interview in Russian back in the junior years. https://youtu.be/llihrI55KW8?si=5xDJZfzbkcRFR7T0

He actually sometimes has an accent and it's obvious they speak Russian at home, as his grandfather pointed out some time ago.

Isn't it like that? It's a country of immigrants. Nobody is "native", everybody comes from other cultures around the world. I personally don't see any value in the word "American". It's not even an ethnicity. My cousin lives and works there, has a wife and child from there. But he is not...

The real question is, how does HE identifies?

It makes me angry when people claim their origins are Uzbek when they literally aren't. It's like denying who he is, denying his identity. His parents only competed for Uzbekistan, just like Gubanova is competing for Georgia. His dad never left Russia, never lived in Uzbekistan, he even competed...

Um, no? It's common sense. And she is right. We are responsible for our own life. I'm also overweight, my whole life, and i know it's not other people's fault that i'm that way. It's the unhealthy eating habits and not enough workout. Simple as that. I see your kind of logic on social media all...

Ironically, the "inclusion" propaganda is killing sports where women could shine

Wth? You do know he needs the money for school and costumes and stuff? His sister is skating too, you really think his parents can afford to financially support both of them? He is literally WORKING for his money and you're here insulting him? He is doing every show that is aviable, for a...

Ilia is doing an ice show, he already said at the GPF to the Chinese fans that he won't be at 4cc. Idk about Isabeau

"I'm pretty sure" means nothing here. It's a perception. And you contribute to the problem, since girls bodies is all you talk about. Boys have bodies too. In all shapes. And from what i can see, body shaming boys is also being normalized. You constantly see comments about their size, how...

You sure it's only a girls/women thing? It's actually weird that you all focus ONLY on girls when it comes to these things, maybe because they are more willing to speak out about it.

Nice that there´s a category for everybody. Now the Malinina-Skorniakov fam can have two champions 😇

It´s almost like all these people are- humans :eek: Using technical issues to degrade somebody and as a"proof" that somebody shouldn´t be taken seriously (or whatever the narrative here is) is immature tbh. We all experience these issues in daily life, i even had some issues writing this post...

Every athlete or dancer is taking something. They all deal with injuries, pain, overworking themselves and being under pressure, especially when they know they can be replaced with a younger person at any time. I think there´s even more of all this in the ballet world than in olympic sports...