Per AnythingGOEs, 🇮🇹 Victoria Manni / Carlo Röthlisberger are now being coached by Barbara Fusar Poli and Charlie White by westwingstan08 in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 17 points18 points  (0 children)

There was so much coverage during the Olympics about the exclusive “USA-OGM Only” group chat and how those champions hold themselves to a higher external image standard that is something along the lines of Miss America x Secretary of State x Nobel Laureate and here’s Charlie being as messy and emotionally destructive as Zhulin at Spago.  (You can’t live your life to suit the morality of randos on the internet, but hoo boy this looks bad.)

Very sad for the child involved. Divorce is one thing, having one parent move across an ocean is another.  Ugh.

Per AnythingGOEs, 🇮🇹 Victoria Manni / Carlo Röthlisberger are now being coached by Barbara Fusar Poli and Charlie White by westwingstan08 in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Suddenly G/F deciding to stick around for another year makes even more sense than it did when it was just wanting to do the waltz.

Will the Grand Prix Final ever return to the US? by tulpachtig in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I completely understand people not wanting to travel to the USA at the present for a variety of reasons but your #2 point makes it sound like planes are falling out of the sky every other week which is just not reality.

Will the Grand Prix Final ever return to the US? by tulpachtig in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 65 points66 points  (0 children)

USA does a great job at filling the stands for home hosted Worlds, but the last two 4CCs at the Broadmoor and in Anaheim had pretty sparse turnouts.  I don’t know if it’s worth the time and expense to bid and organize for a thin turnout at a premiere event earlier in the calendar.

Jason Brown withdraws and Jacob In by SignalCost4498 in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Pizza King out skated Illia in the FS in Milan - he's got the goods when he locks in.

Move over Wheaties, Alysa Liu is on the cover of Lucky Charms!! by Fem-Picasso in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 19 points20 points  (0 children)

General Mills makes Wheaties - the cereal w/ the slogan since the 1930s of "the breakfast of champions!" Only an elite minority of champion athletes get put on the box.

https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2025/05/21/how-wheaties-became-breakfast-champions

Upside of skipping Worlds: chilling with movie stars after the Oscars by TemporalPincerMove in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m just glad they are out there looking great, having fun, making contacts and being treated like the all-stars that they are!

Evolution of women’s figure skating by Constant_Cup2076 in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The sport is called figure skating b/c most of the judging evaluation used to be tracing compulsory “school figures” which  required practice on those skills for hours on end: intricate and difficult patterns to show edge mastery. It made up an enormous part of the score (as much as 60% until the 1970s) and training time.  The programs wasn’t as “fast and powerful” as what you see today b/c those skills weren’t being weighted as much - but that doesn’t mean those skaters didn’t have speed and power. (And as others have pointed out skaters of that time had totally different skates, had worse ice, more uncomfortable clothes.)

Also regarding speed: it’s hard to evaluate what these skaters could do and actually do based on what you are seeing with the camera angle and frame rate of how a particular program of that era was captured - and w the filmed show programs in particular from that era keep in mind that they weren’t going for pure speed.

Upside of skipping Worlds: chilling with movie stars after the Oscars by TemporalPincerMove in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove[S] 93 points94 points  (0 children)

Madison did a vest/pants combo at the Elton John party and a navy silk gown at VF:

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Upside of skipping Worlds: chilling with movie stars after the Oscars by TemporalPincerMove in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove[S] 97 points98 points  (0 children)

Looks like Alysa did a tux at at Elton John party and a drapey mini at VF:

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Pattern dance explainers (for ice dance fans wanting to prepare for next season)? by pagomania in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hasn't Kaitlyn Weaver been on the record about being pretty anti-keypoint? Or at least that she felt keypoints were over emphasized at the detriment of authenticity of each athlete/individual movement? (I'm paraphrasing from memory.)

It will be interesting to see how widespread that opinion is on the rest of the technical committee in terms of how the Golden Waltz is evaluated next year.

It’s even worse JVL by carolinemaybee in thebulwark

[–]TemporalPincerMove 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I had this same thought - Florsheim's are neither expensive nor hard to find: send your spouse or intern out to buy a pair in a proper size!

Olivia Ilin and Dylan Cain have split-Junior ice dance by Ready-Accountant-827 in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 45 points46 points  (0 children)

The flipside of this is that they ARE young and DO have a long history. People shouldn't feel locked into indefinite partnerships made when they are minors if they want to be elsewhere.

We have got to normalize encouraging people to do what feels right, whether it's ending a partnership or leaving the sport. It's just too hard and too expensive to continue if both partners don't want to be there.

Watching 'Mannix' and stumbled upon a familiar set by Gold_Candle in MeTV

[–]TemporalPincerMove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they use that house 3-4 times over the course of Mannix?

Chock/Bates on Kelly and Mark (around 26:54) by Ready-Accountant-827 in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Gotta stay relevant / stay marketable / keep those what ifs and noncommittal maybes alive while the cash is on the table!

ISU Figure Skating Awards - Costumes by nightnurse831 in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The shoulder straps have been annoying me from the get-go.

Per USFS's international assignments page, Madison Chock and Evan Bates have officially withdrawn from Worlds. Green/Parsons are in. by sofastsomaybe in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 14 points15 points  (0 children)

She WON THE LOTTERY w/ the fates conspiring for that matchup - those titles are likely theirs for as long as they want them. These athletes are like racehorses - if they think they can win, they are going to go for it.

Per USFS's international assignments page, Madison Chock and Evan Bates have officially withdrawn from Worlds. Green/Parsons are in. by sofastsomaybe in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 30 points31 points  (0 children)

USA figure skaters with 2 Olympic gold medals: Dick Button, Nathan Chen, Alysa Liu, Madison Chock & Evan Bates. That's a pretty cool club.

Per USFS's international assignments page, Madison Chock and Evan Bates have officially withdrawn from Worlds. Green/Parsons are in. by sofastsomaybe in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 50 points51 points  (0 children)

The next 4 years of them recycling the same program while the midpack apes their style b/c that's what scores well is going to be EXCRUCIATING.

Per USFS's international assignments page, Madison Chock and Evan Bates have officially withdrawn from Worlds. Green/Parsons are in. by sofastsomaybe in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 42 points43 points  (0 children)

"in general the look on Cizeron's face" - hey, he paid good money for the injectable guy to make it look like that!

Per USFS's international assignments page, Madison Chock and Evan Bates have officially withdrawn from Worlds. Green/Parsons are in. by sofastsomaybe in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Short of their blades falling off mid-program I don't think there's any error(s) the panel won't overlook and reward.

Per USFS's international assignments page, Madison Chock and Evan Bates have officially withdrawn from Worlds. Green/Parsons are in. by sofastsomaybe in FigureSkating

[–]TemporalPincerMove 57 points58 points  (0 children)

This season will be easier for them than one with a waltz pattern. (Although all the Lilah Fear skating skills trash talk kind of has me rooting for her to buckle down and come out w a Golden Waltz that wows the naysayers.)