He needs to change the last sentence to read “We want to make the best assessment for the strongest team we feel has the best POTENTIAL for us at the Games.”
If you scroll through the likes on Liz Manley's instagram post you can see some but Tessa, Gabby, Kaitlyn Weaver, Kaetlyn Osmond, Mathieu Ostiguy, Haley Sales, Ali Schumacher and that was scrolling quickly through the list. I don't know how to search these things. What I did notice is a lot of skaters (non elite) and coaches I have know over the years likes. Some people who wouldn't typically do that. So I suspect Skate Canada membership just see something different in this situation and it doesn't sit well with them.
I didn’t say there were no reasons and neither are the skaters disagreeing with the decision.
Yes, but they'd never publicly come out and actually say it.
There have been a few instances where SC's decisions have been less than stellar, but all skating feds give themselves a back door. Unfair to the athlete? Yes. But they pick the best team in their minds. And no it hasn't happened afaik that a team has withdrawn and still been named to the team. Did a team skate less than stellar and still end up on the team? Yes.
I agree that there seems to be more to story here.
Well, I think Skate Canada also needs to address whatever problem is going on within its organization, because something seems off.
Kaitlyn Weaver indicated that there is more to the story than we (the public) know.Right, what I'm saying is that they are acting like it's "unfair" in a very emotional way without considering J/R had legitimate reasons to be picked... to me, that's ignoring it
On Twitter?
Their reaction is so fascinating to me. I've never seen the community so openly against a federation's decision like this. It makes me wonder if we aren't being told the whole story and there were behind the scenes stuff (like J/R being promised an Oly spot this summer, before they ever competed).
In the comments on Liz Manley’s Instagram post.
I don't know if there were promises made, but there definitely seems to be something going on. All the drama around James/Radford has been excessive from the very beginning, imo.
at the Federation.
It certainly got everyone's attention.
Teams that grow together from a young age and stay together are a rarity. And when it happens, it does in a way perpetuate a myth that these things happen without any input from someone. In a lot of cases, there is someone who sees the potential and guides things along. We just don't know it.So why doesn't she just say the rest of the story? Or say why she can't say it? The way this is going on just seems icky.
I don’t know.
Going to call a spade a spade here - naming James/Radford to the Olympic team is clearly a business decision by Skate Canada, likely made some time ago. Only one of MT/M or W/M was going to get the other spot, which was obvious when J/R were allowed to remain in the competitive bubble after withdrawing from the competition. The only way the narrative could possibly have been altered was for both MT/M and W/M to have skated lights out all season and soundly trounced J/R on numerous occasions. Business decisions are rarely popular among the rank and file as we're seeing from the backlash from the skating community, but the name recognition factor of the J/R pairing was just too great for Skate Canada to pass up, especially fielding an Olympic team of skaters not well known by the casual viewer.
If they know there is more to the story, maybe they know that it will come out in due time and they are just preparing people for it. A scoop without scooping, perhaps.I don’t know.
I wish someone would say it.
Liz is close to spilling the beans. Maybe she will at some point.
Perhaps. I'm just turned off by the way certain skaters stir up the public without telling the public what exactly is the problem.If they know there is more to the story, maybe they know that it will come out in due time and they are just preparing people for it. A scoop without scooping, perhaps.
This.... is not what happened.
