Thursday, September 23, 2010

This and That



Mark Ballas tweeted a photo of himself with 'Mama Palin.'

Russia announced its World Team: Afanasyeva, Dementyeva Kurbatova, Mustafina, Myzdrikova, Nabieva and Semenova.

An article about Felicia and Tay's senior debut (and Gretchen Donlan and sexy Andrew Speroff.)

Nikolai Morozov's skater's have been training in Latvia due to fires in Moscow.

Kanako Murakami will not compete at Nebelhorn due to broken skates. She will compete in a Chubu regional competition on Oct.1.

Start Orders for JGP Japan.

Cassie Whitcomb's floor routine with upgraded tumbling. (It is unclear when it was filmed.)

11 comments:

  1. Mark Ballas' cuteness factor just went down like 1,000 points. Sigh.

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  2. Yeah, by all means he should have shoved her in a mud puddle and stomped on her face . Geez, get over it already. I don't like Palin myself, but the constant obsession with her is getting really old.

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  3. Shawn showed a FTDLO. Yes, into the pit (on a mat, over-rotated) and small spot from Chow. But still...does not look like someone who is not going to at least make a serious attempt to be in the mix. think all the hayterz who gauranteed that she would never do a double double (same ones who promised the Oly Amanar would never get credit, when it got counted 3 times!) may need to start backin up from the ledge!

    Hamm-Johnson 2012! Screw hope and change! I want re-runs!

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  4. No upgraded tumbling for Whitcomb, that's what she's been competing all season.

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  5. I guess, I should have seen it coming,but I'm really sad we wont see Pavs at Worlds. Imagine a show down between her and Alicia in vault EF... pretty sweet.

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  6. Cassie floor filmed in February. For some reason, MLT puts it up now, but cool to watch either way I suppose.

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  7. does MLT have a pit under a set of bars or at the end of a vault? or is it hard landings all the time. lol

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  8. i'm guessing "broken skates" is the equivalent of "my dog ate my homework" ;-)

    jk...i know skates can be a serious pain in the ass, but i couldn't help but joke, and offer some conjecture.

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  9. Anon- while watching that floor exercise all I could think about was that those sting mats were probably just there for the video cameras. I kind of love how CGA only has 2 sting mats so they had to grab some level 8's to move them for Cassie's FX.

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  10. That's no level 8 - that's Amelia Hundley moving the mats!

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  11. Palin looks like the pelicans follow her around.

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