Recent content by alc

I genuinely enjoyed the first few seasons when the focus was actually on teaching and learning ballroom dance. It’s completely overproduced and unwatchable now.

Raising the age limit would be window dressing for the doping problem the way IJS was window dressing for the score politicking problem. It’s hard to imagine that it would motivate Russia to keep skaters around past puberty, as opposed to finding ways to delay puberty further. It’s also hard to...

I appreciate knowing that. They did give an interview yesterday explaining why they so strongly disagree with the decision to let Valieva compete. I’m still not quite sure how much to explain to my daughter.

I’m just… I can’t. My six-year old was so entranced by the skating events and I wanted this to be fun for her. This kid has lived through a global pandemic and the backlash against Black Lives Matter (she’s half-Asian). Selfishly, I just want the Olympics to be a fun escapist fantasy like it was...

A llot of people don’t get a diagnosis until well into adulthood. Anecdotally, I think it’s pretty common to take medication for a few years after the diagnosis (regardless of age), get your life more together, and subsequently desire to be off medication entirely. The ADD never really goes...

Agree 1000%, and here’s my take on why. We (the audience) ask it perhaps partly out of curiosity, but mainly to make ourselves feel better. If “but it was worth it” is part of the equation, that gives us (the audience) permission to feel at least a little bit better about all the abuse and...

They hung Paul Hamm out to dry exactly like this too. I was the most casual of four year fans and even I was appalled by how incompetent they were. And that was before the era of social media and toxic American politics. The tweet below sums things up perfectly for me.

Much as I want this to be true… and maybe it is…there’s good old American four-year fickleness (yay fickleness) and then there’s hate. There’s a lot of racial hatred in America right now. And frankly, there’s a sizeable percentage of Americans who (proudly) will never see Simone as an actual...

I really can’t argue that. I wanted for five seconds for this to be like the public forgetting about Kim Zmeskal once Shannon Miller started winning. But yeah, not gonna happen. I’ve been ambivalent about Skinner because I can’t not respect her determination and the fact that she’s shown some...

You know, I now want to edit that because you’re right. (I won’t because it’s already written and responded to.) Simone is a special case, and this whole thing is so unprecedented… but where I had been coming from was that the media is usually fickle enough to move on to their next winner...

I’m not saying I’m rooting for this or that I am predicting it (except in a go big or go home, “how can we make 2021 even more absurd” kinda way)… but Jade winning Olympic AA gold by way of the Carey would take a lot of media pressure off Simone. The pundits can have their big Cinderella story...

That’s essentially what I said yesterday. I didn’t want his hot take immediately after the meet when it wasn’t yet clear what had happened or how much Simone wanted to disclose. Today is today. It’s his job, at the very least, to release a canned statement congratulating Russia, congratulating...

The twisties convo is in like three different threads and I’m genuinely trying to follow… So let’s say Martha makes Simone compete. What do you think happens next? Does she do fine? Wipe out? Balk? Any of the above? I can buy that the twisties in and of themselves aren’t a mental health issue...

For argument’s sake… are you saying that Martha would somehow have succeeded in getting Simone to compete today (if so, is that a good or a bad thing?)…or simply that Martha would have blackballed her forever had Simone refused to compete (undoubtedly true)?

Implying that this was “planned” feels like an unnecessary conspiracy theory, but I can definitely appreciate your point that perhaps Simone and/or those closer to the situation (including Tom) coulda/shoulda/might well have seen this coming. I don’t doubt that they knew way more than we did...