In a message dated 1/5/2006 6:05:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, jenninekash@... writes:

Is there any "new" news about Totmianina?  Is she
expected to be well in time for the Olympics?  Any
chance T&M just wanted an excuse to sit out Russian
Nats for some reason?  (I am evil, too!)

Oh, and I don't care for O & S, either.  I kept
wanting to like Julia Obertas, seeing as how she was
hyped up as the second coming of Katia Gordeeva, but I
just don't like what Moskvina is doing with this team.
And Obertas has definitely not lived up to the hype
for me.

--Jennine

Hi, Jennine,

      Well, korolevakristya just told us that Totmianina is doing well. Vasiliev said that T/M are training for Euros, expect to go, and will make a decision about going on to Olys after Euros. In answer to your evil question, it`s inconceivable to me that T/M could give up their status as Russian National Champions unless Totmianina did really have a serious medical problem.

   As for O/S, it`s only human to have our favorite and least favorite athletes and frankly I started disliking Obertas at the time of the Palarmarchuk accident and she`s never given me a reason for finding her likeable since. There`s more. I find her physically very unappealing and listening to Peter Carruthers gushing about here "cuteness" rots me. What a bozo.

Also the longer it takes for O/S to shape up, the more likely it is that we`ll get to see P/T for another season,

 

Bye, bye,

Arthur