Recent content by Spun Silver

I am a bit fuzzy on the details but he said the judges didn't judge fairly. His skater lost. There was a brouhaha and then he and his wife both vowed to shut up to the media for a long time.

Wow, that's a lot of teams from one coach! Best wishes to Kana and Daisuke for both events!

Wow! She makes Sasha's iconic I spin look slow.

@PRlady you're gonna need a ski helmet, knee pads, and I would strongly recommend a butt pad right over your tailbone. I made one out of a little piece of a yoga mat, following Mirai Nagasu. :) I wish you well and kind of envy you. I decided to give skating a try a few years ago and took...

Polina is fantastic! I didn't know she was still training. I will always think of her as the next great thing in US skating that never was due to injuries, but she did have her shining moments at the Olympics. And she still looks like an Olympian.

Vincent better not get it!

What is Sina Visitor System?

The other thing is that the world has forced Russian athletes into a situation where they can only compete and perform there and in a handful of satellite or ally countries. I mean the Armenian championships, for gosh sake. When you back people into a corner like that, they start behaving...

No, I don't, in this case. Political threads are not always full of grief about what figure skaters are or aren't doing. Skater threads don't usually go on and on and on about skater politics. People here are very smart and should be able to realize the emotion is misplaced, IMHO. I mean, if...

A few years ago I helped organize a skating petition that was trying to put pressure on the French Fed to release some skaters whose careers it was destroying. You would think the whole skating world, apart from maybe some French skaters who depended on the Fed, would have been dying to sign and...

Irina Slutskaya sent her daughter to Svinin and Zhuk! And those two may be starting a cooperative/academy with Morozov and Gorshkov...

No, it hasn't been called a war crime, yet. The support for the Russian government has just been presumed, when there are other possible explanations, as my previous post suggested, and it's merely caused people to be placed on a list of non-humans. So far. The destruction of people's...

@Barbara Manatee You asked if I think it's moral to imagine a scenario where T/M signed the CAS appeal under duress, and suggested there's no moral difference between assuming T/M's guilt or innocence in the two actions that have led people to put them on a hit list of non-humans per Finnice's...

Getting back to T/M, YMMV, but in my moral code, it is not acceptable to propose suicidal heroism, self-sacrifice, or self-exile as the only moral choices for other people, especially those whose situation is not your own. If you, in the same circumstances, can be a hero, a saint, or someone...

Do you think T/M had a say in it? I imagine the conversation went something like this: Rusfed: "As you know, the fatherland is at war in Ukraine and the entire world has declared war on us, not only in Ukraine but in all sports. It is our sacred duty to fight back against this persecution...