Recent content by Denn

That's a really nice pommel set he did there. 14.45 is a competitive score under the 8-elements-count rule we've had for the past year. his main deductions are a little piking here and there and just a little skew here and there.

I do think Dukhno is the real deal, too, and will be a player in the long term. I would encourage people to check out the first 3-4 posts of his instagram for a nice summary of what he can do. https://www.instagram.com/dukhno_arsenii/?hl=en :fx: I think this is one of his best. stock stuff...

Wow, USAG already gave Yul an assignment!

The men's meet was pretty rough. I could not keep watching, but that was mostly due to the terrible live commentary.

At this rate, Team Phillipines (men/women) will be Carlos Yulo, his younger brother, and 8 Filipino-Americans.

I am confused about what you all are saying about Eteri T. I thought coaches could be from any country. So if she's Georgian, why can't she be a Georgian coach with an AIN athlete? I figured that the real reason was that they had to pick one of them and they thought Daniil G. was a better...

nope. still in order, though I am not sure why Mone Chiba skated last today! You can see the rankings here, though. (Maybe it's not up to date?) https://results.isu.org/ws/ws/wswomen.htm

Rankings based on past events and a point system

I was fully prepared to hate Heated Rivalry, but it was actually way better than I expected. I still don't "like" it, but there were some touching moments.

Amazing that, with 3 of the top 4 having such troubles, if Chen (or really anyone) had done that this week, his Free Skate was so good in 2018, he might have won silver.

LMAO @ China. They must have finally figured out the American Cup is a SCAM. They dropped all three A-Team guys and are sending B-team or even C-team guys. LI Hongyan + XIE Chenyi + ZHANG Yangyu Japan's sending the big guns though. Their guys will win handily.

Olympic Pressure must be more than ever. As a (diehard) fan of Adam Siao Him Fan, they offer online trainings to prepare you for a disaster. LOL. They also prepare you for the incredible — this is a guy who once rallied from 19th to bronze at Worlds. But he did it backwards this time. What a...

This is exactly what I kept saying over and over in my mind and I texted it to multiple people while watching, too. It's the best I could come up with at the moment.

Yeah, a decent number of them now. I don't know of any gymnasts dating each other, though. But also, gymnastics doesn't have a professional league like this where players make millions. And I think that context is part of the allure of this series for some people.

I feel like the judging system for skating has NOT ruined the sport, not even a little. The old system of using ordinals and factored placings was an utter disaster -- the brainchild of either a dolt or someone diobolical, I am not sure which. The idea that skaters often had to get help from a...