Recent content by Vagabond

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.'

💡 Cizeron and Fournier-Beaudry need to skate to "The Way We Were" next season and dedicate their program to their former skating partners.

Cleary. But everything I recall reading previously about why she switched federations relates to the ease of getting citizenship, not the purported snub. Does anyone really believe that if it took longer to get Canadian citizenship than to get American citizenship, Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps...

If one wanted to disprove allegations of being "controlling" and "demanding," this might not be the best way to do so. :shuffle:

Glenn's PCS should, at least generally, be behind that of Nakai, Chiba, Sakamoto, and Liu. It should be behind Levito's too.

Isn’t the main reason that Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps chose to skate for Canada rather than the United States that she could obtain citizenship more quickly than he could?