Recent content by Vagabond

At the 2025 World Team Trophy, Glenn finished seventh in the Short Program behind Liu, Sakamoto, Gubanova, Chiba, Gutmann, and Schizas. Scratch out Liu and one of the Japanese and add in a South Korean woman, and Glenn could quite possibly finish sixth. I think that such a scenario is much more...

Amber Glenn has become the doyenne of U.S. figure skaters. They clearly look up to her, even when they are trying to beat her.

They are going to lose World Standings points from two years ago whether or not they go this year. They don't want to regress in the World Standings, and finishing higher than fourth can help their seeding at Worlds, their prospects for two spot on next season's Grand Prix, etc.

@PRlady is a wise woman.

The ostensible The ostensible reasons for the "body of work" criteria are to avoid (1) having a Tonya Harding situation with an unsavory skater automatically earning a spot at the Olympics and (2) enabling the IOC to retain revenue from the broadcasting rights. I don't think that USFS has ever...

I totally understand why some people on FSU hate Chock & Bates: they don't recognize a masterpiece when they see it. Suck it up, haters! :P

:huh: They  were recognized. At the medal ceremony.

I still haven't watched the Free Skating, but sending either the fifth or ninth-placed finisher in the overall competition to the Olympics would send an extremely poor message as to the value of Nationals. If I were on the selection committee I would vote to send the top three and hope that...

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Even when Congress is functioning properly (which it isn't right now), it enacts legislation to naturalize citizens only in exceptional circumstances, such as for humanitarian reasons or, especially when normal pathways to citizenship have been unavailable. Congress does not expedite citizenship...

Why are you so rude? And is this how you treat people offline? While everyone here appreciates the work you put into your many astute posts on rankings, seedings, and the like, I doubt there is anyone here who likes reading things such as what I have quoted above.

A certain former U.S. Ambassador to Belize has been mentoring her for a while now. :sekret:

Her hair gives new meaning to the term "highlight reel."

That is not a proper question for this forum.

🤔 Maybe Malinin could be persuaded to do both phases of the Team Event with watered-down content and just six or seven quads across two programs.