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Re: poor news on Bobek

--- In SkateFans@yahoogroups.com, vsethi@... wrote:

> Here's another AP article, this one with quotes from Jana Bobek.
>
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070802042.\
html

> Ex-skate champ Bobek posts bail, faces meth charge - washingtonpost.com
>
> "Jana Bobek said her daughter liked to party and may be in trouble
> because of the company she keeps.
>
> "'If she is in some kind of trouble, she is probably in some trouble
> because she got in with the wrong company. I do strongly believe she
> would never do anything criminal,' Jana Bobek told The Associated
> Press."

Nicole is 31 years old, well beyond her teen years and not even what I would
consider a young adult. That whole "she got in with the wrong crowd" excuse
doesn't wash with me. This isn't high school. This also isn't Champions On Ice
circa 1996 where they'd have 17-year-olds partying after the show with skaters
twice their age. When you're 31, you're old enough to know better.




Thu Jul 9, 2009 3:34 am

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Nicole Bobek, busted in a meth ring. http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-bobekcharged&prov=ap&type=lgns -- Ruthann Biel, mother, stitcher, music...
Ruthann Biel
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Jul 7, 2009
12:37 am

... and this from Phil Hersh http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2009/07/bobek-once-a-skating-star-allegedly-key-player-in-drug-ring.html Meagan...
denbydilbert2001
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Jul 7, 2009
4:27 am

I don't think anyone figured Bobek would end up being more notorious than Harding, but if she ends up in prison for leading a meth ring, then I think she has...
Suzanne Lainson
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Jul 7, 2009
5:24 am

... Heh. It seems to me that even just staying out of trouble with the police is a pretty low bar to set on the decency scale. :-P From the stories I used to...
Sandra Loosemore
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Jul 7, 2009
12:18 pm

I remember when she was National Champ they had her speaking at high schools about "just saying no." My how time flies....
bagelpuss
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Jul 7, 2009
12:58 pm

... Yeah, but young people often do crazy things. If I kept going like I did in college--boy oh boy! Instead, I am a rural mother of three military spouse who...
Mary E Tyler
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Jul 7, 2009
1:10 pm

I think the nature of the crime may have something to do with it. Getting picked up for a DUI is not a big, big story. But being a major player in a meth ring...
Suzanne Lainson
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Jul 7, 2009
3:54 pm

Suzanne, I was thinking the same thing. Distributing meth is light years above all the post whack nonsense that Tonya did. I had a relative that was selling...
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lilbatz
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Jul 7, 2009
6:47 pm

... Based on the photo that the showed of her in the article, she didn't look like she had been personally using meth. All the photos I have seen of meth users...
Suzanne Lainson
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Jul 7, 2009
7:21 pm

... It takes awhile before a meth user develops that "living on the streets" look, although it happens faster with meth than with other drugs. Jodie Sweeten,...
Jennifer Lyon
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Jul 8, 2009
3:16 am

At any rate, running a drug operation is definitely a bigger story. Also, celebrity stories circulate so much faster now that that may be another reason why...
bravesfan451
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Jul 8, 2009
3:36 am

... It's sad that Nicole got herself into this mess. Things like this also speak to what could happen to former athletes/child actors, etc who are out of the...
Virginia
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Jul 8, 2009
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... There were so many red flags with that kid early on. When she was at the Broadmoor, I think everyone was aware she wasn't getting an education. And the...
Suzanne Lainson
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Jul 8, 2009
5:17 am

... It always seemed that Nicole's mom really wanted to live off Nicole and her skating star millions they thought she might get. That has to get to a kid....
Virginia
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Jul 8, 2009
5:54 am

... That's what I suspected too. And I wondered the reason Bobek never gave it her all was a form of rebellion. And yet she was too tied into the life to...
Suzanne Lainson
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Jul 8, 2009
6:01 am

... Here's another AP article, this one with quotes from Jana Bobek. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070802042.html ...
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Jul 8, 2009
11:33 pm

... Nicole is 31 years old, well beyond her teen years and not even what I would consider a young adult. That whole "she got in with the wrong crowd" excuse...
Jennifer Lyon
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Jul 9, 2009
3:34 am

... Yeah, Nicole's had a long time to grow up and outgrow the whole "peer pressure" thing. She also doesn't seem to have been very good at finding worthy role...
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