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I'll be mostly interested to see bits of her performance when the bootlegs show up on YouTube

Is she still attending the NYU School for the Arts?

Lots of big names in there. I wonder if Japan will be announcing a third MAG and WAG? Same with Spain WAG

An English-language (and Chiles-biased) take from Nancy Armour: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2026/01/29/jordan-chiles-bronze-medal-cas-new-hearing/74888473007/. Essentially, it sounds like the appeals court is handing it back to CAS with the directive to review the rejected...

You develop situational languages, and I think one of the big divides that develops is public vs. private. After living in Korea, we stayed with my sister in Austria for a month before coming back to the US. We both had tourist German, but the first language out of our mouths at the store was...

This is one of those places where the facepalm react icon would be helpful

I can only speak Korean in Korean grocery stores these days. (To be clear, it's still very poor Korean then, I was never actually good at it. But it's way more existent in the proper setting.) These days French is the only second language I'll claim, and I'll only use it in a professional...

I like using the react icons. I wish we had a facepalm one

I find message boards to have much better organization for actually having a detailed discussion than any other social media form.

Uncle Tim on it: https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2022/05/2000-the-sydney-vault-debacle-and-the-apparatus-norms-hypothesis/

Wasn't there an athlete vote of no confidence against him?

I do love the stained glass style we've been seeing a bit of recently.

Chapter 15. A Wonderful Introduction "To meet talented people is a good sign of one's way to victory." Svetlana Dubova Gymnasts who had won European or world titles were invited to the Grand Prix in Rome, held in July Eight girls competed for the medals, and the top two met in a final and then...

Chapter 13. Fate A group goes to Germany for exhibitions. It includes world vault champion Yelena Piskun of Belarus, Oksana Chusovitina, 6-time 1992 Olympic champion Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus, former world all-around champion Grigori Misyutin of Ukraine, and others Lilia: We traveled by bus...

Chapter 12, part 2: The crane is a lucky charm "In several days of competition, you have done more than we have for half a year of our Ambassy's existence." Ambassador of Ukraine in Japan Lilia: I burst into tears when the anthem began to play during the award ceremony. I was proud of Ukraine...