Thank you, Alexandra, for posting this. I was surprised to see that Sokolova thinks she should have won Worlds in 2003. I was there, and, although she landed...
I probably shouldn't report that I gave a very un-ladylike snort when I read that sentence. I, too, had the privilege of being in D.C. in 2003, and although I...
... I guess I have more hope. IMO, while the figure skating world is still adjusting to the new scoring system, it alone isn't responsible for the current...
Candace Miller
millercy@...
Aug 1, 2008 4:05 pm
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Yes, indeed, Michelle Kwan was truly magical. I had the privilege of seeing her in person at three of the Worlds she won - including her first and what is...
... This isn't the first time I've read about Harding's accusation against her half brother even though I've never paid much attention to her antics. Is is...
Candace Miller
millercy@...
Aug 1, 2008 4:37 pm
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"Cupcake" has a very active imagination. IIRC, Sokolova skated pretty well for her, but I thought she definitely got a "Skating While Russian" bump in the...
... Of course. Many long-time Skatefans posters (myself included) were never involved in competitive figure skating. We're just avid figure skating fans. I...
Candace Miller
millercy@...
Aug 1, 2008 5:32 pm
186168
... There is for American libraries. Most use the Library of Congress' transliteration scheme when transliterating words or names from the Cyrillic alphabet...
Candace Miller
millercy@...
Aug 1, 2008 6:07 pm
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I'm just a skating fan too. I'm over 30 myself. Patricia Support your friendly local autistics...........I'm one of them. ... From: Candace Miller...
I was also in DC in 2003 and I can understand why Sokolova thought she should have won--her jumps were harder than Kwan's. IIRC, she had 7 triples in her LP,...
... Ain't that the truth! Her short program at Dortmund Worlds was a piece of perfection, and even ignoring the time penalty, I thought the marks were insanely...
... against ... have ... I seem to remember a scene from that awful 1994 schlochudrama about the Harding-Kerrigan "scandal" in which an older brother (step- ...
Thank you, bubbles, I haven't laughed this hard in a looong time. ... into, ... Usenet... ... Ice and received a long and angry e-mail from an outraged...
Yeah, who can tell what's fact and fiction with Tonya? Patricia Support your friendly local autistics...........I'm one of them. ... From: bagelpuss...
Well, her stories have changed so often that it's likely to be a bit of both. Trish ... From: Patricia Hefner <hefnerpatriciahefnerpatricia@...> Yeah,...
... I believe this is the article where the abuse story was first published. It's the E.M Swift article that ran in Sports Illustrated in early 1992. ...
On the big country radio station around here: The Tennessean reports that figure skater Tonya Harding has been seen coming out of a Nashville recording studio....
... Can we please drop the topic. It is particularly painful and annoying for a survivor of sexual abuse, to hear a story of such abuse disbelieved in this...
... Funny--I can lay claim to the same thing. ... She does. While I have to honestly say that I felt Chen Lu deserved the title in '96, Michelle wasn't hay by...
trudee44081@...
Aug 1, 2008 10:30 pm
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http://www.skatecanada.ca/en/news_views/news/2007_2008/august_1.cfm right fibular ankle fracture...
... I doubt she can. For the record, the first telling of that story I can recall was in the profile Ed Swift wrote about her in Sports Illustrated. I don't...
trudee44081@...
Aug 1, 2008 10:42 pm
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Be it known that I had sent my last reply before reading this: ... Let it go on the record that I don't "casually suggest" that she might have lied at all. I...
trudee44081@...
Aug 1, 2008 10:59 pm
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... I VERY vaguely recall, and we all know how bad my memory is, that Sokolova DID get jobbed one of those years. She skated very well, very cleanly, and quite...
Trudi, I also honestly felt Chen Lu, in 1996, gave the superior performance - notably higher jumps, superior speed and flow, and, at the time, IMO, a far...
... Me too. I'm sorry if people who have genuinely suffered sexual abuse find it offensive that *anyone* who claims to have been abused might be disbelieved,...
... see their own performances realistically. It never surprises me to hear that a skater who had harder jumps thinks they should have won over a skater who...
At least that's what I infer from this entry on the website. Was this posted earlier and I missed it? If so, my apologies. ...
Stephanie Smith
steph@...
Aug 2, 2008 1:56 am
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It's a culture thing. I've read enough transcriptions of interviews with Russian athletes back home to come to understand that they are free to claim pretty ...
... <snip> ... Exactly. This list is what it is, and maybe it's not the right forum for everyone, but I don't think any "newbie" is ever going to be shunned...
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