Alissa Czisny injured during FS on Jan 12

[hjm2013]

Agree. I love her skating. So talented. And such a sweetheart.

[Icey]

A hip dislocation after having surgery for a torn labrum seems pretty bad to me. I don't think it matters whether the dislocation was simple or complex. The fact that a simple UR caused the dislocation indicates to me that Alissa's hip joint is too fragile for competitive skating.

Do we know that it is the same hip as the one that was torn?

[Blades of Passion]

Just saw the beginning of the FS and it looked good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtsR8JZMJw

Very sad that we may not get to see more of this. It looked great.

[Kalina]

Do we know that it is the same hip as the one that was torn?

It's the same hip.

[Icey]

I sent Alissa a message through her official web site:

http://figureskatersonline.com/aliss.../site/contact/

[Skater Boy]

and just like that, she is Gone With the Wind.

you were a little late too the show - already been said and done but agreed :(

[cinnamon]

Just saw the beginning of the FS and it looked good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtsR8JZMJw

Thank you for posting it. It really looks good. We hope to see it again soon when she will be back.
Alissa and Yuka are perfect match, so elegant.

[Mathman]

I sent Alissa a message through her official web site:

http://figureskatersonline.com/aliss.../site/contact/

Me, too. Thanks for the link.

[Layfan]

Just saw the beginning of the FS and it looked good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtsR8JZMJw

Argh!!!!! She looked good. This is so sad.

But I agree with Mathman, she can hold her head up high with what's she done with her career. Hope this isn't it for her. If it is she'll be beloved in the tour skating world, for sure.

[Pepe Nero]

you were a little late too the show - already been said and done but agreed :(

Not really worth bragging about. Yuki's first response to MasterB had it about right, I'd say.

[macy]

well you can tell that entrance to the flip was the one that went wrong. it's respectful to alissa and her coaches for them to have cut it off.

[leafygreens]

I don't think it's "disrespectful" if anyone wanted to show the full video. The first video uploaded was so small and grainy you couldn't see anything, even when she fell.

[Tonichelle]

It was the right of the video owners to edit or take them down. Let's respect that.

[R.D.]

We hope that this sad injury does not mark the end of Alissa's competitive career. But if it does, she can hold her head high. Here is the club of U.S. ladies since 1950 who won two or more national championships.

Tenley Albright, Carol Heiss, Peggy Fleming, Janet Lynn, Dorothy Hamill, Linda Fratiane, Rosalyn Sumners, Jill Trenary, Debi Thomas, Michelle Kwan, Alissa Czisny.

Wow, that's actually quite some company there. But more striking is who's NOT on that list...

ETA: I guess, in a sort of twisted way, better for it to happen here "behind the scenes" than on live national TV (imagine if it occurred during nationals!). Can't even seem to find a video of what happened for goodness sake.

[Olympia]

Agreed, R.D. That time when Totmianina fell out of a lift and hit the ice in one of the GP competitions, they replayed that tape endlessly through the season.