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That would also explain why you see figures leader Isabel de Naverre skating in the penultimate group because of her 11th place in the short program.

Primetime Emmy winner Valerie Mahaffey at 71 https://www.usatoday.com/videos/entertainment/2025/06/02/valerie-mahaffey-dead-at-71/83987357007/

For anyone who has seen "The Ballad of Wallis Island" , here is the 2007 short (nominated for a BAFTA award) that served as the framework for the long form version ("The One and Only Herb McGwyer plays Wallis Island"). https://youtu.be/nxvAd01X0Cs?feature=shared

In 1984, Skate Canada sent Junior Champion Jamie Eggleton to the Olympics in Sarajevo over senior bronze medalist Gordon Forbes (who became first alternate for the second consecutive Olympics). And even more infamous than that was national bronze medalist Tracey Wainman (coach of Roman...

One of the last surviving game show hosts from the classic era (following Peter Marshall and Chuck Woolery, both of whom passed in 2024), Wink Martindale at the age of 91 (I had been a frequent viewer of his YouTube channel featuring lots of rare episodes/pilots)...

What they didn't make clear in the article is that they're adding a mixed event in compound archery, which was not normally in the Olympic programme before (all individual and team events had been in recurve archery only).

Vikki de Vries actually won Skate Canada 1982, ahead of future world champ Rosalynn Sumners https://youtu.be/2vUPMvPB4jI?feature=shared

Livia Kaiser withdrew as well https://www.swissiceskating.ch/de/news/ruecktritt-livia-kaiser-em-2025

Details on Yul Moldauer's 16 month whereabouts suspension https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/yul-moldauer-suspended-drug-tests-gymnastics

Indeed. All the pages do say: Qualification rule: The best 24 skaters after Short Program will advance to the next segment ;)

Cinephiles would note the very prominent nod to Douglas Sirk from Almovodar right down to the interior design of Martha's (Tilda's) condo and rental house.

And for those of us old enough to remember, Greg Gumbel was one of the commentators for the 1995 World Championships on NBC (the last time the station would broadcast the event until 2009). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARd8UsQj_Ag

And I had just watched Linda on (Lisa Kudrow/Ray Romano led) No Good Deed on Netflix just recently as well.

Kneecap , both the movie and the music group (playing themselves) have had quite the year. The question is whether all their momentum will take them all the way to an Academy Award Best Foreign Film nomination https://youtu.be/Bwt_jWBBtik?feature=shared

Burt the Crocodile from "Crocodile Dundee" was thought to have been well over 90 years old https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2we313k6ro