Recent content by barbk

I fear that the athletes may not get their medals at the Paris Olympics at this rate.

I really, really wish the ISU folks would learn how to write regulations with clarity.

USADA's response after the announcement of the "independent" prosecutor. https://www.usada.org/announcement/call-for-independent-prosecutor-wada/ The last two bullet points on the page are particularly interesting: WADA’s statements at the press conference about 10 cases on U.S. soil for which...

I'm sorta hoping there is a whole lot less about Oliva Dunne next season.

Goucher and Bryn Mawr have two of the top post-bac pre-med programs available. I don't imagine that Goucher's location has any influence on JHU's med school admission decisions, but it might well influence students in the post-bac program to either apply or not apply based on whether they like...

All Lobar has to do is beat her. It is that simple. Plenty of Olympic athletes leave without medals, and I don't consider their participation a failure. Chusovitina, like DSD, is showing that age is not the barrier many of us considered it was. I applaud her effort, whatever the result.

Oksana Chusovitina just won her national championship! https://olympics.com/en/news/48-year-old-oksana-chusovitina-wins-uzbek-national-title-holding-off-a-challenger-more-than-three-decades-younger "Chusovitina secured a score of 49.200, besting Lobar Amrillaeva’s 48.550 total. Amrillaeva was...

I don't love Davis/Smolkin's skating, but Diana is not her mom.

Until 1985, I lived just about a half mile down Bundy (in the cheaper direction) from Nicole Brown Simpson's townhome. It was both horrifying and morbidly fascinating to watch that trial unfold. I was shocked when he was aquitted, and I do wonder if current day DNA testing might have proved...

You do realize that "tradition" did not include ice dance at the Olympics, right?

There are some BS/MD programs where you automatically flow into the MD portion. I think a few of them only take 6 years or so in total, though most take the full 8. They are very, very tough admissions.

I didn't realize that Nordstrom's Trunk Club went away. I used them for my mother-of-the-bride stuff and other than the tremendously expensie glittery spike heels which did not fit and would never have worked for a wedding that was supposed to take place on a lawn, the selections were very nice...

1. Quit letting the Montreal folks pick music. 2. Quit letting Jason pick music. 3. Quit letting Isabeau have access to music with shrieky singers. ...A girl can dream, right?

I'm pretty sure I never heard much about lutz takeoff edges until Nicole Bobek's became infamous. There was much grousing in fandom back then (and, perhaps even now) that the end of figures led to this...but most of those skaters competed at least in their earlier years in figures. Personally...

People do what you pay them to do. In that era, landing at least one of every kind of triple (except the axel) without double footing was the expectation for women. So was having a strong spiral, spins that stayed stuck in one position, and footwork that moved. Falls were a HUGE negative...