Sasha Cohen marriage

[debo]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/...olympic-figure-skater-spends-her-sundays.html

How Sasha Cohen Spends her Sunday.

I want to visit the restaurants and stores she frequents in NYC.

 

[Sonata]

I’ve always enjoyed the Sunday routine column - interesting to see what people do on a normal day - but always found it weird that nobody seems worried about being stalked on the next Sunday after the column comes out.

 

[Nadya]

Sasha was always a true American success story, as I see it. She overcame so much but then had a terrible "failure" to reach her dreams and compete for a final Olympic medal. Now, her marriage has also failed! Hopefully she finds the right man so she can be happily marred like my wife and I.

I will always treasure the memories of the spin where she holds her leg above her head. I have not been able to do that since my days in the navy, I wish I could still achieve that position! Good luck in the future to Miss Cohen.

I can't say I agree with you. How is she a "true American success story"? Cohen is a child of privilege who grew up with money and supportive parents who made happen whatever path she wanted to pursue.

I mean, what's a true American success story anyway?

 

[Nadya]

The days of "making it work" are over! This is not the era where arranged marriages were supposed to last forever! Last I heard half of all marriages will end in divorce; a shame really, but staying and being miserable is not a way to live! Both my parents were on their 2nd; mother and stepfather! That's an aberration IMO where some women I know expect to be married multiple times! Staying for the sake of the kids should never be said again unless they're very young and the expense of having separate households would take away from their care and stability!

I am always amused with people who quote this statistics, as if it means something. It's like quoting, as we Russians say, "average temperature reading at a hospital", which would draw from both ICU and the morgue, and thus will be singularly unhelpful.

Average divorce statistics aren't really helpful because they tell you nothing about how often people like YOU get divorced.

If you are at all curious, divorce rates for white, college-educated Americans who entered marriage after 29 years of age are like 12%.

 

[BittyBug]

OT but what stuck out to me in that interview (about the 16:00 mark) is that Alexei Yagudin told Sasha years ago that his competitors were doping. This needs to be brought to the attention of the crowd who insist that “figure skaters don’t dope.”

Wow. (And it's more at like the 14:00 mark, not 16:00.)

 

[AxelAnnie]

I can't say I agree with you. How is she a "true American success story"? Cohen is a child of privilege who grew up with money and supportive parents who made happen whatever path she wanted to pursue.

I mean, what's a true American success story anyway?

Maybe that is the success in the story. Despite any privileged or advantage she did not slack off until she had made her goals.

Think of all the privileged kids who just slack along. Party to party. Drug to drug. Bad choice to bad choice.

Given American culture these days...I call Sasha a success story.

 

[Vagabond]

I can't say I agree with you. How is she a "true American success story"? Cohen is a child of privilege who grew up with money and supportive parents who made happen whatever path she wanted to pursue.

I mean, what's a true American success story anyway?

A black boy who is raised by a single mother on welfare and grows up to be President?

 

[Winnipeg]

Someone once said that success should be measured from where you came from and not just where you are. Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey

not like say Ivanka Trump, Tara Lipinski, etc/

 

[debo]

Sounds like Oprah.

 

[Justathoughtabl]

There are many measures of success. Money is it for some people. Helping others or making a difference is another measure. Or making people happy, or making the world more beautiful in some way, say, by being in the arts. I think people who are born into privilege can create success stories. It's about what you do with what you're given. I wouldn't call Ivanka a success by any of those measures. Sasha, I would say, is working to help others. I do believe she has tried to give back in some ways, hasn't she? I think Oprah is the ultimate. She has made money but also tried to help others AND entertained us along the way.

 

[Nadya]

A black boy who is raised by a single mother on welfare and grows up to be President?

Happens too rarely to be a "true American" anything.

 

[Winnipeg]

Happens too rarely to be a "true American" anything.

There is a song that was sung by Johnnie Whitaker in the 60's called "Every Little Boy Can be President of the United States." (Today the word boy would be changed to child but still).

 

[Justathoughtabl]

There's also the Jay and the Americans song (I think Mann and Weil) "Only in America," but it was meant to be sarcastic.

 

[Janbo]

Welcome to my ignore list.

Now I remember why I blocked this poster all those years ago. I don’t pay to come to this site to read fierodrivel.

 

[overedge]

Maybe that is the success in the story. Despite any privileged or advantage she did not slack off until she had made her goals.

Think of all the privileged kids who just slack along. Party to party. Drug to drug. Bad choice to bad choice.

Given American culture these days...I call Sasha a success story.

You should talk to some of the skaters who trained at her rink. At times she certainly wasn't shy about showing off her privilege and advantage.

 

[StasiyaGalustyanLove]

I can't say I agree with you. How is she a "true American success story"? Cohen is a child of privilege who grew up with money and supportive parents who made happen whatever path she wanted to pursue.

I mean, what's a true American success story anyway?

I guess I should have said she is a false American success story LOL! Isn't there a TV show with a name kind of like that one.

May be I should avoid controversy and say that at least Sasha had wonderful skating skills, no-one would argue with that!

 

[Nadya]

You should talk to some of the skaters who trained at her rink. At times she certainly wasn't shy about showing off her privilege and advantage.

TELL!

 

[RD]

Sasha freely indicates that her courtship with Tom was quick after they met at a Harvard alumni mixer (she had been invited by a girlfriend). She moved in with Tom after several weeks and they were engaged about four months later

no wonder.

No way you could possibly get to know someone well in such a short time