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Anonymous wrote:One of the things that REALLY has helped gynastics is the rise of college gymnastics. Those meets pack houses and get a ton of eyeballs on TV. They also provide a place for sucessful gymnasts who are not elite/national team level to compete (and do so having fun and eating.)

It would be nice if skaters had that option.

Plus the new NIL rules mean olympians
are competing next to non elite level team members. Suni Lee is at Auburn.

You know what would be even bigger for college gymnastics? If Suni makes it back to the Olympics in 2024 after competing for Auburn.

Anonymous wrote:One of the things that REALLY has helped gynastics is the rise of college gymnastics. Those meets pack houses and get a ton of eyeballs on TV. They also provide a place for sucessful gymnasts who are not elite/national team level to compete (and do so having fun and eating.)

It would be nice if skaters had that option.

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Anonymous wrote:Can I just say I love that Johnny weir taught himself Russian.

Apparently his ex-husband was Russian, so he learned from a native speaker at home. Still cool though.

He learned from his Russian Coach many years before getting married

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Anonymous wrote:Can I just say I love that Johnny weir taught himself Russian.

Apparently his ex-husband was Russian, so he learned from a native speaker at home. Still cool though.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this conspiracy angle actually possible?

I’m someone who rolls my eyes at conspiracy theories, but I also skated at a high level when I was young and I don’t know about this one. Certainly Kamila was rattled and in her head before she ever started and could make mistakes because of it, but the sheer NUMBER of mistakes and falls — I don’t know that I buy it. At least two times, she had a decently solid landing, not terribly crooked or off balance, them twisted her body and had yet another fall. Absolutely looked as if it *could* have been intentional.

The behavior of the silver medalist was disgraceful at any competition, let alone an Olympic Games, and what the hell does “you knew everything” mean? I’m certain we’ll never know and this will all get swept under the rug, just as it always does.

As Adam Rippon said “what a s**t show. OMG.”

Just saw the ceremony where they were being presented with their stuffed animals. Trusova held hers with one hand flipping an obvious, pronounced bird.

What an absolute brat.

I assume she is abused by the state. The skaters have little agency over their own lives. Do you know how Russia works??

You know, if you want to argue that their training system sucks, that shipping young kids hundreds of miles away from their families to begin training in elementary school sucks, that the state funding their training and in return burdening them with totally unrealistic expectations of success sucks, etc,etc, I don’t disagree.

But the fact remains that in their system, umpteen athletes have managed to make it to the Olympics, compete, not take gold and *not* throw screaming temper tantrums and flip birds on the podium. So maybe expend less energy defending a pathetic, classless display from Trusova.

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Anonymous wrote:Can I just say I love that Johnny weir taught himself Russian.

Apparently his ex-husband was Russian, so he learned from a native speaker at home. Still cool though.

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It’s not a “made up issue,” because they’re not getting those deductions the vast majority of the time. The Eteri tax.

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Anonymous wrote:Can I interrupt the ice skating talk to say that the announcers for the biathlon events crack me up. One of them is SOOO excitable. I don't really care about biathlon (though the relay events are kid of fun) but the announcers are great.

Did you not catch him announcing Diggins in 2018? He loves the sports, the athletes and probably life in general!

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Sure, all it would take is tens of millions of dollars that I'm sure someone has lying around.

I mean, yes. Skating is expensive. Ice time is expensive. Top coaching is expensive. Ballet is expensive. Opera is expensive. High art is expensive. What do we want to do? We either accept that they will be open only to the wealthy or to the privately sponsored. Or, you find public funding to make it available to most. I'm afraid there's no easy answer.

Chen's coach thinks skating academies are the answer where knowledge is centralized and systematic, and all skaters get the benefit of the same knowledge and experience.

Which is great for the 2% who become sucessful and not for the 98% who don't.

Or you could spend those tens of millions educating and supporting hundreds of kids and lifting them out of poverty.

Or you could, for instance, close down a few military bases.

Anonymous wrote:Can I just say I love that Johnny weir taught himself Russian.

Anonymous wrote:Chen has worked on his artistry a lot. Plus, he actually did train with a ballet company.

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Anonymous wrote:Can I interrupt the ice skating talk to say that the announcers for the biathlon events crack me up. One of them is SOOO excitable. I don't really care about biathlon (though the relay events are kid of fun) but the announcers are great.

Did you not catch him announcing Diggins in 2018? He loves the sports, the athletes and probably life in general!

Anonymous wrote:Can I interrupt the ice skating talk to say that the announcers for the biathlon events crack me up. One of them is SOOO excitable. I don't really care about biathlon (though the relay events are kid of fun) but the announcers are great.

Anonymous wrote:One of the things that REALLY has helped gynastics is the rise of college gymnastics. Those meets pack houses and get a ton of eyeballs on TV. They also provide a place for sucessful gymnasts who are not elite/national team level to compete (and do so having fun and eating.)

It would be nice if skaters had that option.