They shared pics on their IGs when they were in Las Vegas the same weekend of March 18th, which is the date on the marriage certificate. They also shared a pic, yesterday, on their IG, of them in a hotel elevator with rings on their ring fingers. I don't know that it's really any of the public's business what they share or the timing of those shares on their social media.
If they intend to represent USA (and in turn receive team envelope funding), I would argue it certainly is the public's business.
No, it's really not. Unless, suddenly, the USFS and USOPC are getting taxpayer dollars then what reason is there for anyone in the public to know what is the status of their personal relationship? Absolutely none whatsoever. Furthermore, they won't be able to represent the USA until Feb 13, 2023 at the earliest (the day after 4CCs concludes, btw) and they certainly won't be eligible for team envelope funding until the 2023-24 season assuming they compete at US Nationals and place high enough to receive funding as well as earn their way onto the USFS' ISP. As far as I can tell, the earliest point at which there might be some sort of public "need-to-know" would be about 11 months after they got married.
I have a counter-example. My sister's then boyfriend was a French citizen living in Canada while finishing his PhD. He had a visa to come and work in the US at a university. They got married in Canada...and he was subsequently refused entrance to the US and his visa voided. It took months and the intervention of a highly placed congressman before his visa was reinstated and he missed an entire semester at Chapel Hill. US Immigration seems to be highly suspicious of marriage when careers are involved.
Settle down. I could care less about gossip. I simply do not want these two representing USA this season and taking away international opportunities from our deserving American dance teams.
Diana is American by right of birth.
They are not that deserving if they can't beat them. I honestly don't get the dislike for Davis and Smolkin. They are not a bad team and I don't think the US teams after C&B, and H&D are all that great either. Diana is a an American and it seems that Eteri is spending quite a bit of money for her daughter to receive dance training in the United States and has done so for the past few years. I don't think anyone can argue that Diana is not entitled to represent the United States as she is an American citizen. I remember years ago when many American females were "buying" foreign (most Russian) partners to compete with when ice dance didn't have enough male partners. No one, save for Punsalon and Swallon (over Gorsha Sur) said that these partnerships were not entitled to compete for the United States.
I’m sorry. It’s so much better that you are actually passing judgment on “deserving American”
Has anyone ever seen Brenda Bottems and Bouffantrex in the same photograph?There was also the skater mom who fought Tanith Belbin’s representing the U S!
Leading to the epic emoji
I refuse to apologize for advocating for the American dance teams that have trained in the United States in the USFS system their entire lives and careers who may be directly impacted by this sudden change.
Indeed. And that doesn't mean I have to be thrilled about Davis/Smolkin suddenly representing the United States and taking opportunities away from other dancers.
From Tutberidze's wiki: "After briefly training under Natalia Linichuk, Tutberidze switched to Gennady Akkerman, her coach for the next three years. She skated with Alexei Kiliakov until he emigrated to the United States."
Yes, to this! Additionally, Diana and Gleb have been living and training in the US since at least 2019. She has spent approximately 1/3 of her life in the US (I believe Eteri returned to Russia when Diana was 3), plus whatever time she might have spent with her American family visiting through the years. I hardly think it's fair to criticize her and her mother for choosing to have her compete for Russia when so many other American skaters do the same thing - representing another country with less depth in a particular discipline, and even choose to switch back to competing for the US.
