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I like underdog stories and Boisson certainly fits the bill. Poor woman, the only time I heard of her before this was when another tennis player made a snarky comment about body odor and it made world headlines. The Frenchwoman handled that very well and it seems like that attitude translates...

I think he’d be very good at choreography, and I liked his technique although I was never a technique expert. I just hope he hires an actual nutritionist because his starvation diets are hopefully just his personal choice and not a method to recommend to aspiring athletes.

I went a long time ago in 2007 and loved it, but probably because I chose cities based on other interests, as Mikey suggested and just did it at night for an hour or two. I started in Frankfurt since that’s where I landed, but quickly moved to Cologne and Heidelberg and ended in Berlin...

The reason I care about what Q anon says is: 1. social media spreads the info faster to a low informed, high consuming group of people; as much as I want to believe people are smarter than believing it, it’s a significant number of people who do but for me, it’s my empathetic nature to really...

beef on weck - Buffalo, NY roast beef and its juices on a special Polish-American roll that has big flakes of sea salt and caraway seeds on it, often with horseradish on the beef as a condiment chicken french - chicken cooked in a lemon butter sauce that Italian immigrants created in Rochester...

yes, I really enjoyed Maine. The seafood is fresh and delicious whereas I agree Massachusetts inexplicably transforms their clams into fried nothings. You can only taste the breadcrumbs. I found clam chowder better in Maine compared to MA/CT/RI too.

Western NY: chicken wings beef on weck chicken french chicken riggies garbage plate white hots I don’t eat any of it, even though I’ve always lived here aside from my university years. what I do love: variety of fruits and vegetables that grow here. Farmers markets are everywhere, and I...

I just read “One Italian Summer” by Rebecca Serle. They will inevitably make a movie, and then we’ll have to deal with even more people descending upon Positano. It’s enjoyable if you like a quick, light read. The protagonist is immature and annoying, but this was one book where I actually...

She is not a surprise to me. Her wedding was…interesting.

I’ll be going to London, got cheap tickets for The Play That Goes Wrong, King Lear (at the Globe), and Jersey Boys (row 7 for 30 pounds, yay!). Have t seen any, any one have personal opinions?

Katia has always tried to “both sides”, which I think is a product of her Soviet upbringing. For example, the My Sergei book was rather critical of coach Zhuk but any of her television interviews in Russia praises him. Her social media post on this last Olympics praised the Russian figure...

The other skaters have been under extra pressure too, I’m sure. I hope the event is not a splat-fest. In my dreams I hope Wakaba skates clean and wows the world with her free skate and becomes the Yuna of 2014. But the whole event now has a cloud over it and it’s sad not be excited about...

I think CAS made the wrong decision. I also think if it were another sport it wouldn’t have been that decision….figure skating once again is dismissed as not a sport, at least subconsciously. it’s unfair to everyone. If Kamila skates great, there will always be an asterisk next to her name...

Geez….Plushy could have left out “and her coaching staff” and it would have been a fine message.

If Dave Lease is right then that points to team doctors, I imagine, and coach knowledge. Oh boy….