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- Jul 11, 2003
You have to realize that when I first read this news I had to go through several pages of comments.in this thread first and the two posters I mentioned albeit Non Fans of Kwan whose posts seemed to think that it is just an excuse to get out of the GPs. At the time since MK has always been mysterious, I let the idea of 'getting out of the GPs' as a possibility. I was in shock at the news. Another poster whose posts are all over this thread with tidbits of gloom and doom based soley on an admitted personal distaste for Michelle and with a certain glee incorporated into his opinions, one has to just let them ride for their insensitivities to an injured skater.antmanb said:I don't agree with your opening paragraph for one reason - if she wanted to skip the GP she would simply tell the world she was skipping the GP to save herself for the natioanls and Olys...sure there'd be a collective groan from most people but that's what she'd do. Alleging that someone is faking an injury is pretty mean spirited stuff and even if she doesn't skate in CoC isn't CoC a month before the December invitational? That's still a months' worth of healing time so i don't think that's a bad thing.
the rest of it though i agree with - what she needed this season was international feedback and exposure and with this injury she's stopped from doing that. Desperately scarbbling for good things though - TT will be out on the GP with er skaters andsee everyone else's programs so she'll know what needs to happen technically from a CoP perspective with Kwan's programs for them to be competitive. When she goes to tweak the progam she can impart her wisdom.
Ant
However, once caught up, I realized that she is also out of the Campbells, and that fact told me that the injury was real, and that she is hurting not only physically but emotionally also. I cancelled out all posts that intimate the injury is not real but a move to get out of the GPs. Michelle would never go against a contract.
I believe I mentioned all this in a subsequent thread, and I am still concerned, when she returns that she needs feedback from the international scene before Torino. Hopefully we will see this.
Joe