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But with an Olympic gold medal in her pocket and a lucrative pro career beckoning, Sasha may not care what the USFSA encourages.orchid said:No doubt about it, the USFSA will encourage Sasha to attend the World Championship.
But with an Olympic gold medal in her pocket and a lucrative pro career beckoning, Sasha may not care what the USFSA encourages.orchid said:No doubt about it, the USFSA will encourage Sasha to attend the World Championship.
Mathman said:But with an Olympic gold medal in her pocket and a lucrative pro career beckoning, Sasha may not care what the USFSA encourages.
STL_Blues_fan said:I don't believe that Sasha would skip Worlds out of "fear". If she wins the Olympic medal and decides to stay home it will be from a great sence of relief that all the hard work has paid off. Well, I can't speak for Sasha, but I don't think you are in a possition to say that she is "afraid to loose it". Is Sasha wins that gold (and I am rooting for Irina) it will not be a fluke. Tara winning that gold was not a fluke either. Sarah is debatable. And btw, Sarah did come back to 2003 Worlds.
Sasha goes into the Olympics as a 2-time World Silver Medalist and reigning U.S. Nats Champ, so a Gold Medal would not be a fluke. Tara, like you said, was not a fluke either -- she entered Nagano as the reigning World Champ and 1997 U.S. Nats Champ. Sarah, I would say, WAS a fluke, because she never did as well before or since.STL_Blues_fan said:. Is Sasha wins that gold (and I am rooting for Irina) it will not be a fluke. Tara winning that gold was not a fluke either. Sarah is debatable. And btw, Sarah did come back to 2003 Worlds.
SkateFan4Life said:OK, I've readjusted my thinking on this......I think Sasha should stay in the eligible ranks at least to compete at the Worlds this year. The US needs her presence to assure (hopefully) a three-woman World team in 2007, and to also avoid being shut out of the medals at Worlds this year. The US women have always been strong, and there have been just a handful of years in recent memory in which at least one American woman hasn't medaled at Worlds. The last time that happened was in 1994. Tonya Harding was kicked off the team, Nancy Kerrigan skipped Worlds, and that left Michelle Kwan to pretty much carry the bag for th
e U
S. She was only 13 at the time, and she skated very well to finish eighth to assure the US a 2-woman World Team for 1995.
orchid said:Surely, she will want to leave somewhat a positive legacy, and not walk away as Tara did.
Joesitz said:It's nobody's business but Sasha.
I think she would like to have a Worlds gold medal but it would be anticlimatic after the Olympics. Let Sasha decide what to do. She may even go for 2010.
Joe
euterpe said:Why would Sasha "do the right thing"? Tara and Sarah didn't. In fact, at SLC< Sarah announced she was going to go to Worlds and "represent my country", but she was too tired from the whirl of parties and celebrations and informed the USFS less than two weeks before Worlds that she wasn't going. Think she was running scared of being beaten? You'd better believe she was!
Ogre Mage said:I think that barring injury, Sasha will skate at Worlds 2006, regardless of where she places in Turin. Like Joesitz says, she wants a World Title and you have to believe the USFSA will be encouraging her to go so they can secure 3 spots for next year. Especially given that Irina probably will NOT go to Worlds this year, it would be a golden opportunity for Sasha.