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Social media/media roundup thread!

Mrs. P

Uno, Dos, twizzle!
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There's going to be so many fun photos, tweets and other posts, I think it's good if we have such a thread

Loved this twitter conversation between Michelle Kwan and Lolo Jones:

US Olympic TeamVerified account
‏@USOlympic
Last stop on the road to Sochi #GoTeamUSA #TeamUSAPrep with @lolojones pic.twitter.com/3UXfuZ9oDv
3:29 AM - 29 Jan 2014

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‏@MichelleWKwan
.@USOlympic @lolojones Love the Olympics garb! Good luck @lolojones - I'll be cheering for you!

Lolo Jones
‏@lolojones
@MichelleWKwan !!! I remember watching u and I would pretend figure skate in my living room.This is awesome! Michelle Kwan tweeting me!
7:32 AM - 29 Jan 2014

So now we know that Lolo Jones is a Michelle Kwan fan girl. :yes:

Mark Ladwig posted this cool photo of the line for Zhang/Bartholomay public skate session:

Mark Ladwig
‏@LadwigMark
11:08 line @EllentonIce 2 see @felicia_zhang & @NateBartholomay practice @ 1:10pm. @USFigureSkating #RoadToSochi pic.twitter.com/UKJz79ICNE
8:13 AM - 29 Jan 2014

https://twitter.com/LadwigMark/status/428561521527234560/photo/1
 

Mrs. P

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Love this story on Polina Edmunds from the local Bay Area NBC affiliate!

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...-Gold-and-As-in-Sochi-Olympics-242446401.html

“I definitely still have to do schoolwork,” Polina told NBC Bay Area last week. “I don’t know exactly how it’s going to work yet, but I’m probably going to be taking a lot of work with me and checking online when I’m there.”

Polina’s teachers want her to keep up with her studies, but they also realize that traveling to Russia – the birth country of her mother, who also doubles as her skating coach – is a teachable moment in itself.

“I want her to find someone who speaks Spanish, an athlete, a coach or whoever and interview them,” said Leslie Zambo, Polina’s Spanish teacher. “I want her to come up with the questions and talk to the class about her experiences. Her classmates would just love it.”

I love that Polina's very low-key attitude toward all this. She has a very cool and collected demeanor that I appreciate. It's a interesting complement to Jason Brown's infectious enthusiasm!
 

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Thanks for starting this thread, Mrs. P. :)

At the risk of being Debbie Downer, I really wanted to share the following tweet.
As excited as we all are for the Olympians, also deserving of our support are many fine athletes who will not have the opportunity to compete in Sochi .

Jeremy Ten
‏@j3r3bear
So much goes into preparing you for when you make an Olympic team. But nothing prepares you for what happens when you don't. #SadButTrue
3:25 PM - 30 Jan 2014
https://twitter.com/j3r3bear/statuses/429032556026003456
 

Mrs. P

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Thanks for starting this thread, Mrs. P. :)

At the risk of being Debbie Downer, I really wanted to share the following tweet.
As excited as we all are for the Olympians, also deserving of our support are many fine athletes who will not have the opportunity to compete in Sochi .

Jeremy Ten
‏@j3r3bear
So much goes into preparing you for when you make an Olympic team. But nothing prepares you for what happens when you don't. #SadButTrue
3:25 PM - 30 Jan 2014
https://twitter.com/j3r3bear/statuses/429032556026003456

Aw, (((Jeremy Ten))))


Anyway, here's a fun column from Washington Post writer Robert Samuels. I laughed so much reading it! I think we could all relate to his figure skating watching adventures. He's also blogging during Sochi, so worth noting here.

I'll post a thread on the Edge for more discussion too: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...dfafae-8819-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html
 

desertskates

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Ashley seems to be laying low, and training hard.
Ashley Wagner ‏@AshWagner2010 21h
It's the final countdown...squeezing in two more days of practice and then it is on to #Sochi2014! #TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/2iDLhyuW6E

Eh, that didn't link the way I thought it would, sorry.
 

sisinka

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From Russia with love…final preparation and propaganda before the Games…

Elena Ilinykh's interview from February:
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Ilinykh & Pantene:
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Ilinykh from Elle Magazine:
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“There are two super couples in ice dance – American and Canadian. They are our main rivals. But we are already coming close to their level.“

Bobrova from Elle Magazine:
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“American and Canadian couple is unrivalled now. They are leaders and we are trying to reach their level.“

Althought Kovtun is not at the Olympics, he was also mentioned in Elle Magazine:
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Sinitsina & Zhiganshin interview:
http://www.sport-express.ru/olympic14/figureskating/reviews/40461/
http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/sho...ovskaya-s-interview-with-Sinitsina-Zhiganshin - translation
 

Mrs. P

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Loved this video of yesterday's celebration for Polina Edmunds at her school, Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, Calif.

The celebration features Olympians Brandi Chastain and Kerri Walsh. http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/san-jose-olympians-brandi-chastain-and-kerri-walsh/vCPpfN/

Really inspiring, so cool that Polina had such a nice sendoff!

Phil Hersh also has a story about Patrick Chan practicing in Sochi this morning, one of the first top competitors to do so: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...han-gets-early-jump-20140201,0,1072998.column
 

Matilda

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ETA. This was meant as a reply to apgold re Tara and Johnny's joint twitter account.

I heard this sometimes happens when you start a twitter account--one of twitter's glitches, presumably. Their Instagram account seems to be working fine though: http://instagram.com/taraandjohnny

Tara and Johnny clearly have a great dynamic :biggrin:

Of course they also post on their personal accounts. They offered a view from their broadcast position at the rink yesterday: http://instagram.com/p/j4REhGBhQH/

The arena is gigantic. I like the blue interior :)
 

LRK

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I diidn't know where exactly to post this, so...

Brian has arrived in Sochi:

LMDJ‏@MaisonDeJoubert·
Men's figure skater #BrianJoubert of France arrives at Sochi International Airp=>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...01.38255.100002622038241&type=1&stream_ref=10 (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

ETA - Also, Plushy:

Plushenko News_Eng‏@PlushenkoNews·
(homevideos) Evgeni Plushenko arrived in Sochi - part1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N65aVxq-hpQ part2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umPbsC4qtdU

ETA 2 - Perhaps the interview in the first vid?:

http://translate.google.com/transla...p://www.team-russia2014.ru/article/14787.html

ETA 3 - Interview with Kevin:

http://translate.google.com/transla...&ie=UTF-8&u=http://itar-tass.com/sport/935095
 

Matilda

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Looks like quite a few US skaters are stopping in Germany on their way to Sochi: http://instagram.com/p/j_b2qnzXCk/

I'm guessing that since Jeremy is already in Sochi, he will skate the SP for the team competition?

Also Tara and Johnny's joint twitter is up and running again:

Tara and Johnny ‏@TaraandJohnny 19h

Hey guys! Sorry for the delay! Twitter thought we were fake, but we're all natural! Please enjoy. ❤️T&J
 

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Very nice reminiscence about Alexei Mishin's kindness and Olympic spirit -- from Coach Tom Zakrajsek's Facebook page. Long-ish, but worth reading.

(Tom Z will be in Sochi as a coach of Paul Bonifacio Parkinson of Team Italy.)​

Looks like quite a few US skaters are stopping in Germany on their way to Sochi: http://instagram.com/p/j_b2qnzXCk/ ...

As an aside: all Team USA athletes (from all sports, not limited to figure skating) are passing through Munich for team processing.
 

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Respect to Matt Lauer :bow:, who stood next to Castelli/Shnapir on the Today show this morning -- and who still managed to interview them without asking about their heights and their difference in height, LOL. (It was a nice interview discussing the team event, the support they are receiving from Rhode Island (in Marissa's case) and the Boston area, Simon's roots in Russia, etc.)

OTOH, Lauer said [I'm paraphrasing], "Everyone thinks the glamour sport of the Winter Games is figure skating, but I think it is women's hockey." :eek:hwell: Not surprisingly, he said so as he was interviewing some Team USA women's hockey players. (He went on to say how competitive women's hockey is and how exciting to watch.)

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Cross-posting from one of the umpteen team event threads:

‏@USFigureSkating
TEAM EVENT in 140 CHAR: 10 nations, points based on placement in each segment, 5 make free skate, 3 earn medals. Teams can make 2 exchanges.
1:28 AM - 4 Feb 2014
https://twitter.com/USFigureSkating/status/430633848993378304
 

ciocio

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I'm waiting for the NBC fluff with Plushenko presented as Russian Villain. :popcorn: It's his 4th and last Olympic fluff, it'd better be the best of them!:thumbsup::agree:
 

LRK

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Respect to Matt Lauer :bow:, who stood next to Castelli/Shnapir on the Today show this morning -- and who still managed to interview them without asking about their heights and their difference in height, LOL.

Agreed - it's always nice when interviewers stay clear of the blindingly obvious. (My "favourite" being when the athlete is in tears, distraught and looks like their life has lost all meaning and the journalist asks: "So, things didn't go very well for you today. How do you feel?" and shoves mike into athlete's face.) Also, how tedious must that get to answer time and time again? I know that when I'm asked the same question or hear the same joke about my quirks for the fifty-eleventh time, it gets really tedious. And the poor athletes must always be cheerful about it at all times - else they are nasty, unpleasant, Bad People. Ooops! That was a bit of a rant, wasn't it? :slink:
 
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