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    U.S. Women [#8]: Meet Me in St. Louis

    Trumpers picking on a young, vulnerable woman who probably has done more in life at age 27 than any of them.
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    U.S. Women [#8]: Meet Me in St. Louis

    After yesterday, I was a bit nervous and it seems like we must be more careful in our predictions. I realize that their experiences are a bit different than Ilia's and as someone posted above, they are not favorites to win and I assume they understand up front they don't have an overwhelming...
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    U.S. Men 2025-26 Discussion - Quad God and the Mere Mortals

    I think perhaps Ilia was a victim of his own huge media success? 'Quad God' really took off. Everyone from Novak Djokovic to Simone Biles were coming to see him skate. I don't think Nathan quite had that level of intensity and he competed at an Olympics to nearly an empty stadium due to YKW. I...
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    U.S. Men 2024-25 news & updates

    Nope. Very relevant to what happened today
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    U.S. Men 2024-25 news & updates

    Bump - The USFSA needs to pay Katarina Witt to give an hour long seminar at Champs Camp on skating strategically based on the performances of your closest rivals!
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    2025-26 U.S. Ice Dance News, Updates & Discussion - Backstreet Boys & Spice Girls

    hmmm. Makes you wonder if this has anything to do w/ Gabi Papadakis ...
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    2025-26 U.S. Ice Dance News, Updates & Discussion - Backstreet Boys & Spice Girls

    WOW. I was sifting through the comments. Lots of wuz robbing! One poster brought up Michelle v. Tara. LOL ------ I do want to say that I am so proud of C/B: They leveled up this season w/ the Flamenco program and by today, in the words of DB, it sung. They met the challenge of FB/C and fought...
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    U.S. Women [#8]: Meet Me in St. Louis

    But we've seen it before by others. I agree though that Angela had so much potential -> I think it was at 2000 NHK (?) where she and Sarah Hughes competed against one another and the international judges placed Angela w/ a doubled jump ahead of a clean Sarah in the SP. I hope I am not...
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    U.S. Women [#8]: Meet Me in St. Louis

    The number of US women who could shoulda woulda from 2007 to say 2021 is legion! And while she had an Olympic / World medal count, we can back up a bit to include Sasha from 2003-06, who splatted at horribly inopportune moments thus never standing atop the podium. I had never been so frustrated...
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    2026 Olympics Women 6-10 Poll

    IMO - Based on likelihood, Petrosian will be in the top 5 after the SP, and Mone will have an issue in the SP or Ami will whiff on the 3A. But, it will be close.
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    LGBTQ+ in figure skating

    Me neither, but after watching him a couple of times, I kinda figured :)
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    U.S. Women [#8]: Meet Me in St. Louis

    Actually, this type of diversion probably helps keep them distracted from the drumbeat of medalling, etc.
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    Russian Skaters Allowed to Compete as Neutrals (AIN) to Qualify for 2026 Winter Olympics

    Ironically, the tension and the drama of this Olympics will still be high quality without them.
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    2026 Olympics Men Podium Poll (mid-Jan)

    Ilia -> D-uh, but I see Yuma and Petr Gummenik who is landing a 5-quad LP on the podium. I wish I could say Adam would win a medal. Sigh!
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    2026 Olympics Dance Podium (Mid-Jan)

    I think Beaudry / Cizeron, Chock / Bates and Guignard / Fabbri for the bronze in front of a home crowd. I really don't know who will win.
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