Recent content by Vagabond

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. ☮️

Gillis Grafström was one of Sonia Henie's coaches. Although Swedish, he was based in Germany from 1925 onward, and Henie visited him there from her home in Norway for training sessions.

I think there would have been another reason: to keep Fournier-Beaudry out of the spotlight and send a signal to skating partners and coaches to refrain from portraying those accused of rape as victims. I find the justifications advanced by some here unpersuasive.

Est-ce que c'est vous, Laurence?

I liked how Johnny, Tara, and Terry talked the whole way through Shaidurov's Free Skate. It meant that I didn't have to hear the music. :P

Susan Wynne, better known as Susie.

🕵️‍♂️ Apparently, some of Canada's best curlers were swept up in the controversy.

Looking back after the Olympics, I still wonder what on earth Skate Canada was thinking when it granted Fournier-Beaudry a release. https://results.isu.org/results/season2526/owg2026/CAT004RS.htm https://results.isu.org/results/season2526/owg2026/TEC001RS.htm On the bare results, Skate Canada...

Poles. Don't look at me like that.

🤔 Who knew curlers were so touchy?

You don't have to be American or know their personalties to find their public statements about Nikolaj Soerensen, his accuser, and their own (Fournier-Beaudry and Cizeron's) supposed victimization offensive. The fact that the accuser is herself American has nothing to do with anything. People...

Oh, let's face it. This thread jumped Lara Naki Guttman's shark after the publicationof Papadakis' book, and thank goodness for that. The timorous can lurk at Golden Skate if they prefer.

You are assuming that this cannot be topped. A week is a long time in Olympic figure skating. :watch:

@Yazmeen just put the house troll on Ignore. It won't solve every problem in life, but it will help. :)