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Lucy25 said:I guess it depends on who is doing the remembering. The general public, if they remember her at all, will remember a very pretty and flexible skater who could not put it together when it counted. Sorry, but we live in a very competitive society and unfortunately people are known more for their losses than their successes. If people call Michelle Kwan a choker, they will call Sasha a choker x 100. The general public would have voted her off the island a long time ago.
Skating fans will remember Sasha for her line, technique and beautiful spins and spirals. They will feel badly that she never (at least up to now) could win the big ones.
I personally would never call Sasha an artist. Her presentation on the ice is amazing, but an artist is someone like Sandu, Browning, and Kwan (in her earlier years) who choose unique music and tried to interpret it for the audience. An artist (to me) does not continually incorporate the same moves into very overused music. An artist creates. Just my opinion.
IMO she is an artist if there ever was one. It seemed to me like Kwan had one expression on her face through the program all the way through the K&C unless she got a 6 and then she flailed her arms in those silly adolescent waves. Look at OJ Simpson. There are sports jocks who said there will never be a "running back, quarterback or whatever the tight end he was" was the best, there will never be anybody greater than OJ' yet he made himself famous w/ Hertz commercials running through the airport even before he did or did not do the deed he is most famous for so in that respect, it's a nonissue, one reason because she is so DARN PRETTY and that opens so many doors. She also interviews well without embarassing herself a la Weir. Poor little Texan, not so fortunate in that regard, and Yamaguchi, well she was guilty of being too Japanese at the very wrong time in USA economic history. Tanish Belbin, on the other hand, that girl could be a respected stateswoman some day. So, it's just such a non-issue what she will be famous for.
A little off topic but while I'm at it, I think Kimmie Meissner is going to have to think seriously about dropping Kimmie in favor of Kim if she wants to really grow up. Sorry but I look at everything.