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[quote=Anonymous]No, Ashley did not cut off her parents.  That's a rumor with no basis in reality.  She thanks her mother profusely in interviews.  Go watch her interview with Jenny Kirk and Dave Lease on "The Skating Lesson."  She drops her mother's name and credits her as being "tough as nails" inside of two minutes.

Ashley changed coaches after the 2011 season.  She was still a little despondent about missing the Olympic team the season prior and thought she needed a change from her coach, Priscilla Hill.  (Ashley had a nasty problem of blowing the short.)  So, she packed her bags and headed west to California (with her younger brother in tow) to train with John Nicks.  That's not unusual.  Skaters either stay with the only coaches they've ever known (Brian Boitano, Michael Weiss) or they move across the country to train with coaches who've worked with Olympians.  (Gracie Gold moved from Illinois to California to work with Frank Carroll just a few months ago.)  It happens.  It's no big deal.

Ashley is very well liked among her follow skaters (especially the boys) and fans who really follow the sport.  She's pretty open about her feelings on Russia's treatment of gays, so that should earn her points around here.  She's a girl who can't hide what she's feeling at any given moment.  She openly admits she's "a mess."  She's honest.  She's refreshing.  No, she has no chance of being on the podium, but who cares?  I like Ashley.  She's fun.

As for Mirai, stop with the "headcase" and "lazy" nonsense.  First, no Olympic-class skater is lazy.  None.  I've skated sessions with people who are in Sochi at this very moment: Jason Brown, pairs Felicia Zhang and Nate Bartholomay.  (But not the Estonian pairs team.  Something about paperwork.   And Caydee Denney and John Coughlin just missed making the U.S. team.)  None of them is lazy, so stop it.  You sound silly.

As for Mirai being a headcase, well, she is complicated.  So what?  Figure skating is full of headcases: Jeremy Abbott, Alissa Czisny, Sasha Cohen to a certain degree.  (My coach says I'm a headcase.  She's right.  I am.)  Mirai's problem was that she refused to give 120%.  She thought 98% was enough.  (Girl has perspective, I'll give her that.)  That's why Frank Carroll walked away.  USFS has made it clear that they don't like Mirai, but she just won't go away.  Good for her!

USFS should have named both Ashley and Mirai to the team with Gracie.  All three have international senior records.  Polina Edmunds, who finished second at Nationals, does not.  If Ashley was named to the team because her record was better than Mirai's, then Mirai should have been chosen over Polina for that same reason.  But again, USFS hates Mirai, so the poor girl got dinged.  (And please, 10th at Four Continents?  No one cares about Four Continents one week before the Olympics, least of all, the skaters who aren't going to the Olympics.)[/quote]

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