News and updates à la Française, part quatre

[Peepsquick]

I just think that some personal needs and issues are not always compatible with high stake competitive sports in the long run. How do you get the time to mature, deal with life and figure things out when it is indefinitely placed on the back burner. I believe that Gabriella and Guillaume got caught in a vortex once they joined IAM and skated full time. It might have been exciting and fulfilling at first but we are not one-dimensional beings.

 

[Nmsis]

This made me think of Karine Arribert's approach, and how her skaters may not reach the pinnacle of the sport but seem to be in a vastly healthier environment than most competitors.

Karine Arribert is different.
Recently a guy she had as a student from childhood to early teens
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[kwanfan1818]

I’m willing to take the word of people I respect and who are inside the sport until proven otherwise. I don’t remember them praising IAM for the same thing. (My choice.) It’s also possible that IAM was much more supportive in the beginning, until the trade-off points of success and becoming a corporation came about. It becomes a lot easier to rationalize decisions and dismissing “trouble” — which women who don’t conform or suck it all up are often labeled — by framing it as acting for the “greater good.”

I hardly think Arribert’s perfect, based on her view that ID is “man and a woman,” even if her programs often don’t adhere to that convention.

 

[tangerine dream]

"Olympian Cizeron accuses ex-partner Papadakis of smear campaign"

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/47599103/olympian-cizeron-accuses-ex-partner-papadakis-smear-campaign

And Chock/Bates odds for the OGM just crept up a tiny bit