Recent content by Vagabond

It won't be the end of the world if Chock and Bates stay home. The U.S. will still almost certainly earn two spots for next year (The possibility of earning just one is too horrible to contemplate. :yikes: ), and the motivation to be on top form to be one of those teams that do get to go will be...

That was the replacement title I suggested to @SHARPIE , but she had other ideas. 🤷‍♂️

They do have a social life. And if they haven't learned how to handle unpleasant questions, they have relatives who can give them advice.

Yesterday, Alysa Liu rented out a large venue in Milan, negotiated worldwide broadcasting rights, invited her friends to do their Free Skating programs, and put on a show.

Yup. And in the order I would have predicted if I didn't want to psych out the skategods. :sneaky:

Thank you, Alysa Liu, for the thread title suggestion. :)

How can you possibly think that that would be appropriate?

I might start a new thread soon, even though Worlds and World Juniors are yet to come. Thread title suggestions are welcome.

And can they be prosecuted in an English court, which I noted was why the police and prosecutors might not be able to get Andrew to cooperate? Certainly not Trump, unless they want to start World War III. I might be wrong, but I don’t think that they do.

Maybe, but maybe not. It would likely depend at least in part on whether English courts would have any jurisdiction over anything and the people implicated could be brought to justice there. Also, there aren't many bigger fish to fry than the King's brother.

I disagree. I think that they are inseparable. He appears to have paid for Epstein's illicit services with illicit services of his own instead of cash.

This thread should perhaps be merged with this one, inasmuch as they cover the same ... thing.

Some of us demand nothing less than Johann Strauss the Younger. :soapbox:

If there must be a Team Event, maybe one or two teams could be composed of skaters who qualified for the individual event but whose Federations did not. This year, for example, there could have been a team composed of Reshtenko, Petrõkina, Pavlova & Sviatchenko, and Reed & Ambrulevičius. The...

....once Russia withdraws from Ukraine and shows that it will henceforth respect the Olympic truce. ☮️