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What? :O Was this before the coaching change to Agnes? I hope they have. Agnes seems to like living in Norway. I have to admit I wondered if Risa Gomez ever considered skating for Mexico instead if she would not reach whatever goal she did under the Norwegian fed. She is the only Norwegian...

:) And at Euros as well! From my understanding they started to work together in late November, so the coach change is very fresh. She did not have much time to adjust to the change before the Championships. Looking forward to next season, given how well she did in the SP at Worlds. Two weeks...

Ok, thanks for clarifying, then it was just a misunderstanding from my side. I could not find any information about that anywhere else, so I was a little surprised. Given how confusing the whole seeded groups is for some people I understand not bother to mention it ;)

Since the start orders are based on world ranking points, her possible start order for Worlds could change during the season, either because she get new ranking points and goes higher on the list or other skaters get ranking points and goes ahead of Amber on the list. So everything she said...

Isn´t Povey ahead of Pelkonen, Isaev, Gozhva and Brezinova in the WS?

He could simply have said, we WD because of the other athletes at Nationals and we will not comment on the case anything before the investigation is done. That would not have been him admitting he is guilty.

It doesn´t really help though. You can still like it and liking Nikolaj post is a statement about support when he claims the allegations are false. I´m also afraid that people don´t understand the impact of what they are doing liking the post. This is really not helping SafeSport at all. I´m...

I wasn´t even aware that they posted this in the feed I just thought it was a story they both posted on their IG. I did only see the screenshots and did not check IG. That they posted it the feed for people to react both with likes and comments for the public makes everything much worse. As...

Yeah it´s not really surprising considering their relationship but it´s seems unwise. She could have left that sentence out. Say something about that they wait for the investigation to be done or something and that the investigation would serve justice or something.

I´m happy they WD for the sake of the other athletes, but it surely with a bad taste in the mouth reading Nikolaj claiming the allegations are false and he is going to prove it and Laurence indirectly saying she believes him in the statement. It´s like they are trying to build image to be...

I do not know the legal stuff behind this, but wouldn´t it be possible to avoid situation like this where Skate Canada can´t do anything because of possible lawsuit, if there was clear rules from ISU about temporary suspension for cases like this under investigation? Those investigations can...

It will also most likely impact the other teams at Nationals, at least in ID. Imagine having practice in the same group, warm up, skating before or after them, that must be distracting and upset them. The audience might react too. I´m sure every athlete will try to be professional but the...

I think she does, I read an article about Mias family in a Norwegian newspaper a few days ago, and it seemed Agnes is coaching both her and her 13 year old little sister Ella Celine in Stavanger. The family is really going all in now since the sisters now are in the most important years of the...

Mia Risa Gomez (NOR) is now coached by Agnes Zawadski, former US skater. Source: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00107882.htm

Oh right. Well maybe they could have given Ji Cup of China and Kurakova NHK, but done is done. It will be interesting to see who will get the spot at NHK Trophy, will they give it to someone higher on the list or to one of the US women on the list?