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And by something bad we mean the least bad interpretation of it is grooming and providing drugs to a 13-year-old runaway, then dismembering and hiding her body when she died. There are other allegations that are much worse including that she was potentially pregnant and he murdered her, but...

C/B peaked with the Snake Charmer and Alien themes and have gone downhill. I'm still mad they said they stayed in the game because they had more "great ideas" only for these ideas to be peak underwhelming. Bullfighter and bull is the tired, overdone stuff the ISU is trying to get out of ice...

The jet lag to China is MASSIVE and a lot of US skaters avoid CoC for that reason. Ashley, Adam, Polina, Meaghan Duhamel, and others have all talked about this. Usually it results in a much messier event. They brave the jet lag to Japan for fans and earning potential, but they still mention it...

Isabeau is a gorgeous and complete skater other than her toe jumps. I think she'd have finished better here if those toe jumps were cleaned up. I don't doubt both her GOE and PCS is affected by them. I see Sarah as a prospect for the next Olympic cycle. I wouldn't be mad if she made this team...

Watching S/N and M/P this week, I definitely think S/N is the better team with a higher ceiling. They just need to get it together - and do so consistently. M/P aren't bad by any means, but I do think they look closer to their best than S/N - and have worse packaging.

@kwanfan1818 I think of the teams, they have by far the most potential. Nagy is one of the best (if not the best) young pairs guys in the US, Shin has solid jumps, and they look well matched. On top of that, they're coached by a team that coaches many top pairs teams including the arguable...

Vogue may have been released in 1990, but it's a heck of a lot less 90s than Depeche Mode. Given it was also allowed for the '80s RD category, seems the ISU agrees it's '80s. Given how many teams did it for the 80s theme it's also just an uninspired choice.

@jmtfti Still a lot more bold and creative than most of the RDs this season. Those two songs encapsulate the trend of catchy cheesy novelty songs of the '90s. I suppose Supermodel isn't cheesy, but I'm too sexy was so hilariously cheesy that even as kids made parody routines of it at the rink.

I think the problem with the '90s music is less that there's such a limited number of songs that will work and more that teams aren't getting creative enough. It feels like everyone is choosing from the same pool of pop music: boy bands, Madonna, Spice Girls, poppy hip hop, etc. Then there's...

Huh. I didn't know the US Military accepted skaters for their athlete program. I thought that was just for the military academy athletes and runners.

At least he's using Parts 1 and 2. The Warhorse is really Part 3.

I think what we should do is let them compete, let Maia show off her stuff, and hope and pray that Alex hits every rut in the ice so he embarrasses himself. Poetic justice.

@Debbie S But it still remains - no report, no consequences. They can't force them to withdraw from their Grand Prixs as those are ISU spots. Maybe they can say they won't pay for their travel, but I doubt that would be advertised. They also can't force them to end their comeback. They can...

TBH, I hope Brennan destroys him. But thinking about it, I'm not sure how much USFS can do. They've seemed much less supportive on the ShibSibs PR than they were when the comeback was announced. I've only seen them highlighting non-ShibSibs teams since. Maybe because those teams are actually...

This is a huge problem. While there's been a wider acknowledgement of it as a problem, there are plenty of terrible partners that are still out there. Sorensen and Chen were stopped not by the Fed but by SafeSport. Guillame Cizeron is still being rewarded in the French Fed (who in general seems...