Recent content by Vagabond

Which would you have preferred? An additional spot at Worlds in 2024 (or maybe 2025) for an American man who would not finish in the Top Ten, or an Olympic Gold Medal for Ilia Malinin in 2026? I don't expect an answer. I am only pointing out that this is a question that arises once you start...

The Olympics do not determine spots for other competitions. You are missing the point. Not following Nationals results leads to overthinking and second-guessing. .Following Nationals results merely leads to hypotheticals, which are not the same thing.

But perhaps USFS learned a lesson as to the potential consequences of departing from Nationals results in selecting Olympic teams.

I suspect that the scan would find her to have a very normal brain, only adding to the mystery of how she does what she does.

Thank goodness that Karen Chen is an Olympic Gold Medalist and that Kamila Valieva is not! ☺️

 Was Andrew raised wirh the expectation that he would be a working royal? Unlike his brothers, who went to Cambridge, he went to Dartmouth) (not the American Dartmouth) and could have had a lifelong career in the Navy. I don't think he was cut out to be a true working royal, and I suspect...

I realize that much of what we see on FSU comes from FS Gossips, but it appears that the loudest voices in Russian skating have not come to grips with the fallout from doping, the new age restrictions, and the invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, Alexei Urmanov trains a reigning Olympic Gold...

As I have said before, Alysa Liu just takes the cake. :fan:

Oh, Alexander Viacheslavovich, go have yourself a Valieva cocktail and stop whining. :grandpa: Alysa Liu won, and the reigning Russian National Champion finished off the podium. :summer:

Not included in Sylvia's excerpt from the translation but included in my slightly different Google translation: I'm not sure exactly, but I think that the "association" is Hungary's Skating Federation, that the "re-election" is its recognition by either the government or the ISU, and the basis...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVBw785DFeq/ She ate the lava cake! :cheer: Just once, though. She slept through breakfast every other day. :giggle: Rumors about leaving the cake out in the rain remain unconfirmed. 🎂 ☔ :unsure:

Make it so, Number One.

No Olympic Gold Medalist is ever obskur, even if his country doesn't have a thread of its own here. ;)

Melted down, maybe? :unsure:

Adeliya and Glockenspiel! :inavoid: Not quite on the same level as Tortillas and Dean, but close. :)