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From: Vashty Hawkins <vhawkins@...>


>Judy wrote:
>
>>>My only hope for him is that he holds it together after landing his
>quads,
>and doesn't pop the following triple axel! And yes, the Ed Grimley
hairdo
>can go too :-).<<
>
>LOL!
>
><wipes coffee off both keyboard and monitor>
>
>Well, the higher the hair the closer to God ...

Gee...he's 20 and *needs* to express himself. My son died his hair
green, so this has to be a notch better :-)
>
>Seriously though, I hope he doesn't pop the 3A either, I'm not sure
why
>he's having so much difficulty with it this season - perhaps he has
spent
>so much time on the quad that the 3A has suffered? Or maybe its just
>losing focus after completing the quad and suffering a mental blip
...

My take is that it's mostly a mental lapse, although I've heard that
he's been having problems with the 3A in practice too.
>
>Do you think that Stojko will compete?? Judging from what I've read
on the
>web thus far, I can't imagine him competing at Nationals when he
claims to
>be only 75% - 80% healthy ...
>
I don't know what to think about Stojko. I'd guess that there's more
of a problem than he's letting on if I'm to judge by history and what
I know of team Stojko's press speak. If he doesn't skate, it will let
his Int'l competition know that he has an Achilles heal (no pun
intended), so I'd say that he'll do whatever is necessary to compete
at Canadians and hope that he'll be held up. He didn't look
particularly strong to me last year (those jump landings were awful),
but he still managed to win. Was he anymore than 75-80% healthy then?

Hazel