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Given past history, I think it's far more likely that we'll have a new U.S. pairs champion (like McPark or CHowe) than a repeat. Unless one member of the team is Alexa Scimeca Knieram, that's seems to be how it goes for U.S. pairs.

I’m sorry for Camden and hope he’ll make a full recovery. I’m also sorry for us that we won’t get to see his skating, which at its peak was glorious. He has such a commanding sweep of the ice and great expression.

As in, whoever wins Euros goes to the Olympics?

With the way things have gone this season, I think anything could happen. The only ones who have been consistent in their performance are Conti and Macii but they'll have the pressure of competing at home. It could boost them or it could crush them. Kihara and Miura have dominated...

Of course. I didn't mean that she was tentative to show but rather that her ability to deliver is tentative as her shoulder could give out at any time.

If she's having repeated dislocations, she's going to need surgery to fix it. So yeah, I'd say she looks tentative.

They've been doing it like that for years now for TV, so that they can show the final flights live. And yeah, it's rude.

The problem with Skate America is that it's generally not a profitable event - it's a lot of work for very little return. Nationals is a different story, but USFS keeps shifting the risk to the LOC by requiring an increasingly larger guaranteed minimum payout.

It's ridiculous that Alysa Liu, the reigning World and GPF champion, is ranked 5th, behind two other U.S. women that she has consistently beaten over the past year.

LOL - should have read the whole thread before posting. :saint:

Polina Edmunds would like a word. ;)

They have camera footage of the same car in both neighborhoods around the time of each shooting. The perp and the MIT professor were both Portuguese nationals of the same age who went to school together and both were physics majors, so he certainly looks good for the MIT killing. And the perp...

The shooter was apparently a Portuguese national and a student at Brown (even though he was in his late 40's) so maybe that's the tie to the MIT professor who has killed, since he was Portuguese.

Per the timeline in the RFP, the Board was scheduled to approve the winning bid in November 2025, so yes, they should know already.

I had no idea they were returning to having the lower levels at Nationals.