Best wishes to Brooklee!
GF2445, can you find any videos of Brooklee Han from 4CC? or from nationals?
GF2445, can you find any videos of Brooklee Han from 4CC? or from nationals?
Well done Brooklee. 22nd place currently. If she can put together a strong free, she can move up.
I love her program tomSecret. If you love music by Jay Chou, you will love her program.
She's not doing a warhorse so God Bless Her for that. I've never heard any music by Jay Chou that I know of, and discovering great new music is a goodly thing. I wish her much success.
Congratulations to Brooklee.
I sincerely hope she can acknowledge the Australian-born and Australian-trained skaters who do not have the same opportunities as those overseas and who have worked hard to represent their country but didn't get the chance she did. I hope Brooklee can put something back by speaking out in support of figure skating in the country she has represented.
It is soul destroying for Aussie skaters who have been slogging it out here to see the spot at Sochi go to someone who wasn't born here, has never lived here and has never trained here. And it is hard for the nation to cheer for an athlete who has no real connection to the country other than the passport of a parent.
I don't wish Brooklee any ill or want to diminish her achievements, she is a talented skater and I am sure a nice person and she qualified for the spot fair and square.
But I do hope she can use her profile to give something back to Australian skating, which has given so much to her.
Excuse me, but Brooklee EARNED the olympic spot, not any of the other Australian skater. If it was not for Brooklee, Australia would not HAVE a lady at Sochi. If Australians cant be bothered to cheer for Brooklee, that's their problem. Many skaters from many countries move to train in different parts of the world. It's unreasonable to hold Brooklee to a standard that no one else has to adhere to.Congratulations to Brooklee.
I sincerely hope she can acknowledge the Australian-born and Australian-trained skaters who do not have the same opportunities as those overseas and who have worked hard to represent their country but didn't get the chance she did. I hope Brooklee can put something back by speaking out in support of figure skating in the country she has represented.
It is soul destroying for Aussie skaters who have been slogging it out here to see the spot at Sochi go to someone who wasn't born here, has never lived here and has never trained here. And it is hard for the nation to cheer for an athlete who has no real connection to the country other than the passport of a parent.
I don't wish Brooklee any ill or want to diminish her achievements, she is a talented skater and I am sure a nice person and she qualified for the spot fair and square.
But I do hope she can use her profile to give something back to Australian skating, which has given so much to her.
Many skaters from many countries move to train in different parts of the world. It's unreasonable to hold Brooklee to a standard that no one else has to adhere to.
I'd like to take issue with two points: firstly that I am making trouble and second that it's time to move on.
This is a valid issue for discussion and one that should be debated. It's not about Chantelle but about the message we are sending to all Australian skaters and the future of home-grown talent. What hope is there for Australian skaters if they are treated with contempt by selectors who would prefer to parachute in any opportunistic foreign skater who isn't good enough for their own country? Australia needs to decide whether or not it is committed to its own athletes.HTML:
I am not arguing that Brooklee's selection was unearned or illegal. But surely it was obviously neither "fair" nor "right" in the broader sense of the words or in the spirit of the Olympics. I understand that Brooklee was using whatever means she could to further her own skating career and I guess all elite athletes need a touch of selfishness. But that doesn't make it right.
Personally I would rather Australia sent no ladies skater to Sochi than someone who has no connection with the country and is Australian on paper only. The funds would have been better used bolstering our chances for an Australian to go to the next games, whoever that might be.
We have watched Dani and Greg and Brendan grow up and train here. They've been an example and inspiration to young skaters. They have struggled with insufficient ice, limited coaching resources and lack of international competition. Yet they made it to Sochi and we can be rightly proud of them.
Yet we continue to value our own skaters less than someone from overseas who has never had to face these difficulties, even when it causes bitterness and division in the local skating community.
I'd like to take issue with two points: firstly that I am making trouble and second that it's time to move on.
This is a valid issue for discussion and one that should be debated. It's not about Chantelle but about the message we are sending to all Australian skaters and the future of home-grown talent. What hope is there for Australian skaters if they are treated with contempt by selectors who would prefer to parachute in any opportunistic foreign skater who isn't good enough for their own country? Australia needs to decide whether or not it is committed to its own athletes.
I am not arguing that Brooklee's selection was unearned or illegal. But surely it was obviously neither "fair" nor "right" in the broader sense of the words or in the spirit of the Olympics. I understand that Brooklee was using whatever means she could to further her own skating career and I guess all elite athletes need a touch of selfishness. But that doesn't make it right.
Personally I would rather Australia sent no ladies skater to Sochi than someone who has no connection with the country and is Australian on paper only. The funds would have been better used bolstering our chances for an Australian to go to the next games, whoever that might be.
We have watched Dani and Greg and Brendan grow up and train here. They've been an example and inspiration to young skaters. They have struggled with insufficient ice, limited coaching resources and lack of international competition. Yet they made it to Sochi and we can be rightly proud of them.
Yet we continue to value our own skaters less than someone from overseas who has never had to face these difficulties, even when it causes bitterness and division in the local skating community.
I'm really frustrated that Australia's national broadcaster for the Olympics has not released a replay of the Ladies' Free Skate yet!! I want to see what happened in the FS but I can't and the IOC is doing a great job at blocking everything!