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From: Vicki Gordon



Hey Ryan u are not the only one that feels that way and it bothers me too. In
fact early this year when Emanuel was skated at the worlds', one of the sports
editor really criticized his skating and it was releiving to see that some
people did react and ask the editor to write an article to apologize about it
but it never happened. And as many of us saw Jeff's performance last week in the
free dance there were no comments about that at all. I agree that Emanuel is
unpredictable but that's one of the reason h e is so ineresting and liked by so
many people. But it's a little disturbing to read those article

Vicki


Although I agree with a great deal of what Randy Starkman said about Emanuel, I
feel that there are certain facts which he ignored and I just finished writing
an email to the sports editor.

I suspect that it's true that Emanuel's training methods have been lacking.
This is one of the reason's why many people won't give him the benefit of the
doubt as they do for other skaters. Still, it does seem that he's finally seen
the light and is training harder....I'm not sure that he's found the point which
will be enough to get him where he says he wants to be.

I also agree that he has an unfortunate way of responding to questions from the
press, although I think the reason is the opposite of that given by Randy
Starkman....if anything I suspect that Emanuel is insecure and so
overcompensates with responses. Still, he needs to be mentored so that he comes
across in a better light.

It will be interesting to see if any of our letters are published.

Hazel

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