OT but what an interesting crystal ball back from 2006... And people already mentioning Caroline, too!
i posted by accident in plushthread, in fsu news they say lambiel will compete in nebelhorn without posting a source:think: Mid summer surprises??(i m afraid to be happy..)
I think their competitive career is over. As I understand it, Albena and Maxim are getting into choreo - they've been working on Brian Joubert's new LP.Dance
Denkova & Staviski (if they are coming back)
Maksim is also listed as a coach of Pechalat and Bourzat.I think their competitive career is over. As I understand it, Albena and Maxim are getting into choreo - they've been working on Brian Joubert's new LP.
we stayed in same hotel in milan for golden skates and i found him a decent person to speak to, anyway, no matter what he did, their skating in show was amazing and thats the real thing we should look.An accident or a bad moment can happen to anyone.Just the idea of Maxim Staviiski returning for the Olympics makes me want to gag.
Why the insistence that athletes be role models?
Exactly. Why should they set examples. I think their examples are in their sport and clean living. If the kids can't pick that ups, well......Why the insistence that athletes be role models? That's a question that has always puzzled me. Athletes are supposed to be good at their sport. They should be a decent role model for how to compete and train, and of sportsmanship, (which would include not using performance enhancing drugs) but I fail to see why they should be expected to provide a moral example to the young in areas having little to do with their sport, like speeding or drinking or running around on their partners.
That kind of moral example, to me, should be the province of people making moral claims, like the clergy, for example, or politicians who run on a family values platform. (And many of them don't seem to do so well on this.) Or the kids' parents
Shouldn't an adult do right in life anyway?I think if you know that children are looking up to you for whatever reason, you should try to do right.
In fact, you should try to do right whether children are looking up to you or not.
I love this board, it has so much wisdom to share
we stayed in same hotel in milan for golden skates and i found him a decent person to speak to, anyway, no matter what he did, their skating in show was amazing and thats the real thing we should look.An accident or a bad moment can happen to anyone.
i know the story.
I m not sure I can explain. I have the same "judging" about anyone who gets behind the wheel drunk and him, he is no exception, he was as idiot as anyone else. But him being a known skater doesnt make his crime bigger than the others. Just as guilty as the rest. There is a court to convict him not me. I just met the skater.
I m sorry if I made you think wrong. My comment was made concerning role models.
Staviiski is certainly NOT a role model.
And he didn't just drive drunk, he KILLED a man. The only reason his jail sentence was dismissed in Bulgaria was BECAUSE he was a star athlete. If he had killed a man while driving drunk in the US, he would almost certainly have gotten jail time.