I am going to say what is said about Brandon
we should all worry about Alyssa being ok, before we worry about petitions.
She may be lucky, but Covid can be rough even on young healthy people. The sad thing is she may not be in shape to go to the Olympics.
If she is healthy, yes send her. But there needs to be some kind of readiness check. Both for USFS but for her health as well.
I don't want to see gasping Alyssa having a disappointing Olympics.
They are vaccinated and was wearing a mask constantly, so the exposure shouldn't be too heavy and the vaccine should prevent serious infection. My fear is how this will spread. Colorado has a LOT of skaters here. There's no telling how far this will spread. I would test everyone right now.I am going to say what is said about Brandon
we should all worry about Alyssa being ok, before we worry about petitions.
She may be lucky, but Covid can be rough even on young healthy people. The sad thing is she may not be in shape to go to the Olympics.
If she is healthy, yes send her. But there needs to be some kind of readiness check. Both for USFS but for her health as well.
I don't want to see gasping Alyssa having a disappointing Olympics.
I was going to say about her health yesterday but I figure maybe the camera angle or something. She looks a bit more flush even when she said she feels great afterward.Yes, she has the BOW and unless Lindsay has THE skate it's very unlikely anyone can knock Alysa off the team with Amber's placement and Gracie's lack of mins.
And I guess this explains the lack of sharp movements and just general off-ness last night. Even if you don't feel that sick, having COVID can certainly affect movement and energy while skating.
Drew is also Vincent's coach... and no, they were not doing daily tests initially.I was going to say about her health yesterday but I figure maybe the camera angle or something. She looks a bit more flush even when she said she feels great afterward.
So they are doing daily test for skaters and athletes? It seems odd she only found out right before the practice (now)
Also does anyone know if Drew is okay? As he is her coach and also in close distance for Karen yesterday…
For all the atheletes
sorry i was unclear, by "it" i meant her current coaching situation. Gracie is the only one whose current coaching situation seems to be really working. well mariah with adam is steady I guess, but if she wasn't retiring I'd say adam has to take her somewhere else w/ him because Raf has lost interest in her. But I will give Adam and Mariah huge credit for recognizing the first set of programs were too much adam and not enough Mariah and recalibrating. It must have taken some humility on Adam's part to admit thatGracie changed coaches over 3 years ago.
That’s not particularly recent..
She is night and day between here and Cranberrysorry i was unclear, by "it" i meant her current coaching situation. Gracie is the only one whose current coaching situation seems to be really working. well mariah with adam is steady I guess, but if she wasn't retiring I'd say adam has to take her somewhere else w/ him because Raf has lost interest in her. But I will give Adam and Mariah huge credit for recognizing the first set of programs were too much adam and not enough Mariah and recalibrating. It must have taken some humility on Adam's part to admit that
As I said in another thread, if the Olympics go forward (and they are determined to have them go on) it won’t be the best athletes who medal. It will be the athletes who are best at somehow avoiding an invisible virus.I'm so sad. And I'm worried for all the skaters (and not just the American skaters). I fear we are going to get dreaded announcements of positive tests in the coming weeks. It's sad all around.
Alysa will go to the olympics if she is healthy. even if Lindsay hits it out of the park tonight, there is no scenario they will not take Alysa. she's already earned her spot.Of course Alysa will petition to go to the Olympics. She is the top US Women's skater. It may not mean that she will go, but it makes a lot of sense for Alysa to petition anyway.
My thoughts:
1. I agree with the person up thread who questioned why Gabby Izzo’s score was so close to Gracie’s, given the jump combo that each landed. This is a legit question; I’d love the thoughts of someone who can say if there were other elements that balanced out that difference.