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The little boxes would have varied unpredictably from solid red to solid green and back.

Thanks, @Sylvia . True or not, this was gossip and inappropriate.

You must have just tuned in.

🤔 Bob Prevost might have done better out there than Grassl today.

It will be interesting to see what Italy does about the Men's events. On the face of today's results, I would not use Grassl for the Free and maybe not the Short either, even if his scoring potential is higher than Rizzo's.

Niina Petrokina is not obskur! :soapbox:

:eek: European Silver Medalist, please. 🇪🇪

It adds up to emotional abuse. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/emotional-abuse As you say, he knew about her mental struggles and was nevertheless impatient. He did so to control her, and she felt fearful.

Is there any reason to believe that he apologized or talked it over with her before someone posted the video on the Internet? Or that he did so on previous occasions? Or that he is working on the ptofound personal problems the video exposed? In my experience, siblings who bully siblings do not...

Why should she fit everything around  him? It's her story, not his.

Not to diminish the bravery of Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, but black people were refusing to give up their seats at least as early as 1866. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Pleasant#Streetcar_lawsuits

One thing that Papadakis and Cizeron have in common with the Shibutanis is that someone in a position of trust (Roman Haguenauer or Naomi Shibutani, for starters) witnessed at least some of the episodes and did not intervene. Haguenauer says in the excerpt linked above that he didn't see...

How would she (or you) quantify and prove those damages? Even if there is an actionable tort here, the psychic and financial costs would be high and the probable recovery minimal. Courts are not meant to be vehicles for venting feelings, nor should they be.

Let's be honest. Alysa made it to an Olympic Team back in 2022. She did retire, but once she came back, there was every reason to think she could do it again.

My Italian is not good enough for me to be familiar with this term, which literally means "physical resentment," so I did a little 🕵️‍♂️ and found that "risentimento" can mean "repercussions," as in "risentimento di una caduta," 'repercussions of a fall.'