Recent content by RAFIKI

I watched Stick It yesterday and her cameo made me go

I always found it amusing that Humphrey did VT/FX at the 2002 individual worlds in Debrecen but UB/BB in the Athens TF.

It was overused at the time but I loved Chellsie bringing it back.

Thank you. I’d either forgotten or never seen that before. Lovely vault.

Does anyone feel like giving a four year fan a figure skating primer please? I used to watch worlds and Euros in the late 90s early 00s but I’m definitely a four year fan now and couldn’t even ID the current front runners.

When her cover was featured in IG’s remember when/retro feature I knew I was old!

Probably joint “TF”/AA qualis. Same thing happened in 2000 with Russia: Khorkina, Zamo and Produnova did AA so Lobaznyuk and Kuznetsova didn’t compete at all. Amazing five person team that.

The danger with that approach is that it assumes USA gymnasts are primary and every other country is secondary. It almost reinforces the current imbalance. Unless of course American only threads go there as well and WAG is for wider scope threads.

Wow! I presume/hope the coaches knew each other or this is extra weird.

I’ve been watching WhItlock’s YT videos and Lilleshall had snow during the MAG training camp.

That is really cool and I’m always happy to celebrate milestones.

Good to know that Marco is still around. I have also angered Jeff Wood. I did podium training reports for 2007 worlds and he took issue with me pointing out Shayla Worley bending at the hips on her tkatchev catches. 🙄

I think you are right to use the names in the book but I can’t help giggling at how non-veiled they are!

Harsh!

FFS