olympic-season Stories - Required Elements
Carroll: Judges are Political
Here's a Chicago Tribune article (by Philip Hersh) that discusses Evan Lysacek's prep following his second place showing at Cup of China. Apparently, Lysacek received an edge downgrade for his triple flip but he and coach Franch Carroll could not understand why. Additionally, Carroll has some...
Sasha Cohen Back With John Nicks
This OC Register article from yesterday points out that Sasha Cohen is back with longtime coach John Nicks as her main coach. An excerpt: She had to pull out of a recent competition because of tendonitis. The ailment, Cohen said, is the reason why in recent days she has shifted her training base...
The State of Johnny Weir
Well, the Olympic media summit continued and a product was this Phil Hersh article on Johnny Weir. In it, Weir says that he considered quitting the sport (of course) after not making last season's world championships and seeing Evan Lysacek win. First of all, I'm going to call BS on that because...
Coaching Switch of the Day: McLaughlin and Brubaker!
UPDATE: Should actually have titled this "coaching switch of the minute." or something. Wow, another coaching switch. Per Examiner.com, U.S. Pairs Champs Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker are switching coaches, from Dalilah Sappenfield to John Nicks (!) who used to coach Tai Babilonia and...
You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but You Can't Drag a Figure Skater Anywhere
In what has to be the most creeptastic quote of the week, Phil Hersh quotes the president of the French ice sports federation, Didier Gailhauguet (read about him and his credibility here), as saying the following about Brian Joubert: "...has told French figure skating star Brian Joubert in no...
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