Recent content by Vagabond

💡 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?

Enough said. ;)

We have three spots, and it's unlikely, albeit possible, that the two best U.S. men will score higher than 28, the maximum permitted to retain two spots.

The U.S. has three spots at Worlds, and three alternates who can subtitute for either or both Brown and Malinin.

M. Godot will make the announcement. If not this evening, he will surely make it tomorrow. :watch:

At the 2025 World Team Trophy, Glenn finished seventh in the Short Program behind Liu, Sakamoto, Gubanova, Chiba, Gutmann, and Schizas. Scratch out Liu and one of the Japanese and add in a South Korean woman, and Glenn could quite possibly finish sixth. I think that such a scenario is much more...

Amber Glenn has become the doyenne of U.S. figure skaters. They clearly look up to her, even when they are trying to beat her.

They are going to lose World Standings points from two years ago whether or not they go this year. They don't want to regress in the World Standings, and finishing higher than fourth can help their seeding at Worlds, their prospects for two spot on next season's Grand Prix, etc.

@PRlady is a wise woman.

The ostensible The ostensible reasons for the "body of work" criteria are to avoid (1) having a Tonya Harding situation with an unsavory skater automatically earning a spot at the Olympics and (2) enabling the IOC to retain revenue from the broadcasting rights. I don't think that USFS has ever...

I totally understand why some people on FSU hate Chock & Bates: they don't recognize a masterpiece when they see it. Suck it up, haters! :P