Recent content by rupertsurvive

@VGThuy, you make it sound like barely top 10 is an insult. Look at some of the gods in the sport. Vera Casvlaska and Larissa Latynina who have many more medals than Simone. The only place Simone has more is worlds, and that is since worlds are every year today, and were every 4th year...

Thanks for pointing them out. I forget them, they definitely should be on this thread. I am not sure they would ever be World Champions though. They were never beating a perfect Brasseur & Eisler at the 93 worlds, or Shishkova & Naumov in their best year of skating at the 94 worlds. Maybe...

Those are great breakdowns. I particularly agree with your assessment on the Carruthers. I am not sure I get some fans who think they should have won in Sarajevo, especialy as the ordinals show they barely won silver, but it was great to see their career climax there, and I agree with your...

If Tiffany Chin did not have her crazy Mom in her way she probably would have been an equally or even more dominant skater than Yamaguchi, Patrick Chan, or Kwan. Such an incredible talent, I always look back on tapes of her and her rise in 83 and 84, and so sad to know she would find herself...

The pairs has been the U.S least successful discipline now with the recent U.S surge in dance. In my time following the sport, they have had some interesting teams, even if none was ever a dominant team. What do you think of some of them. Meno & Sand- I always enjoyed them, a friend of mine...

Regardless if you think Biles is the best ever or not, which is fine for those who think that, I don't see how any sane individual can deny the All Around field, especialy for women (really for men too) has sucked bigtime of late. I would say it was already weak by 2004 when Carly Patterson...

People are probably too hard on Sotnikova, but lets be real, her Russian titles were all before the time of Russian depth. Russia had only 2 girls at the 2014 Olympic since they didn't even have good enough results at the 2009 worlds to qualify 3. Heck they didn't even come close to...

I doubt they are winning worlds without major help from Sui & Han after losing their own Nationals now. I mean a clean Sui & Han probably were already beating a clean Tarasova & Mozorov anyway to begin with, but now this is even more certain and emphatic. Sui & Han will have to have a major...

To put it into perspective Alena does far more jump content than Midori Ito in her prime did, and Ito is still regarded as the best jumper of all time; and yet in the current trio she is the "artist" or the non athlete. It is just mind boggling.

I agree but it is also hilarious that a woman who does triple axels and triple-triples all over the place and does the most technically difficult short program ever by a woman and constantly skates it cleanly isn't regarded as a "jumper" or as the least athletic of the trio (Alena). We have an...

Yeah I feel bad for her. It was so close! I hope she comes back strong. She can still be proud, she skated amazing and just narrowly lost to the quad lutz/quad flipping girl who skated the absolute best she could have probably.

I feel so bad for them as they had an amazingly great competition with only 1 mistake over the two programs but their up and coming teammates are so strong that lost them the win. They really have their work cut out for them.

She is possibly the most talented overall skater in the last 40 years, besides possibly Yu Na Kim and Mao Asada. Such a shame things have not worked out better for her, but I admire her perseverance to keep going inspite of all the obstacles. Will be interesting to see how she skates at...

Maybe so but even then it was better than Murakami and Raisman's choreography which I don't even have words to describe. For that matter Biles's choreography is quite awful. Who even has good choreography today, maybe Laurie Hernandez when she competed, that is about it. And Lilia's dance...

Podkopayeva has her weaknesses for sure, but I mean if you compare Podkopayeva to gymnasts like Raisman or Murakami she is a way better All Around gymnast. Light years better bars (despite not being great herself, those other two are absolutely awful, while Lilia has 2 European titles and a...