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Now imagine being a Valieva fan...
Skaters that you feel would be great in the future and have never reach their full potential
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Yes, and as a big fan of his you should have known/understood that he was ill at Vancouver. I actually prefer the Abbott that isn't a big Olympic medalist and continues to entertain and push the limits of edgework and choreography.
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Eman definitely belongs on this list. So much talent and he had amazing programs and costumes. He's another skater who i thought would eventually become world champion.
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My username on here was supposed to be Liam4Eman but I thought it sounded too gay and fangurly, lol. Yes, after that Nationals where he created a stir I thought he would challenge Plushenko and possibly be a World champion someday. I still have trauma thinking about his career because he was THAT GOOD. Then again, I was a huge fan of Bobek too.... I'm masochistic with my fandom.
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Why the attitude, Rabbit? I was a big fan of his SKATING, how the hell should I have known he was ill there? I wasn't some psycho fan following every detail of his life. And why couldn't Abbott be both "a big Olympic medalist and continue to entertain and push the limits of edgework and choreography"? You make it seem like it's one or the other, which surprises me since you seem to be knowledgable about the skating world. So, chill.
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Oh lord, if we are going to include skaters who possibly/probably lost out due to injury or illness, even the biggest and best and most highly decorated may end up on the list...
I do like Jeremy Abbott, but I am rather glad I got into the sport after his time, by the sound of things he was hard on the nerves of his fans.
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Another Chouinard fan here. I have a grainy video of her pro comp program "The Sweater" on my pc that I watch when I need a smile.
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Maybe you can pass this through a translator.... It says it all... and also talks about Fiona.
The title " It took me time to forgive myself"
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Josée Chouinard - Il m’a fallu du temps pour me pardonner | Sports | Radio-Canada.ca
« Je me souviens d’un Bye bye où quelqu’un prenait sa douche et tombait. Puis, on réalisait que c’était moi. »
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He worked on my kid's program last year to Exogenesis, and Jeremy's comment was "This music still gives me nightmares." Very cool dude.
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There are so many. Emanual Sandu had it all great jobs, wonderful lines, superior spins and interesting choreography but he could never pull it together. then there was Kevin Reynolds and Mira Leung - all three from the Joanne McLeod school and doomed for disaster I guess but I thought all had potential to go far. Who could forget Tiffany Chin, Stephen Gogolov, Nam Nguyen, Jeremy Abbott, Naomi Nari Nam (spelling?); Angela Nikodinov, Jenny Kirk, Tracey Wainman, Viktoria Volchkova, Kavaguti and Smirnov; Krylova and Oksianikov whose injuries destroyed them or Randy and tai who had disaster strike strike them, Sydne Vogel, Kamilla Valieva (appears she is done); Anna Pogolorya, Kostornaia - I don't think she won a world medal, Josie Chouinard who has an up and come daughter now.
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Thank you for bringing up Stephen Gogolev. I still hope he'll make it somehow to the top after being so amazing as a kid. Honestly, I think he should go back to Brian Orser, especially now when so many of TCC skaters are suddenly gone or half-gone.
As for Alena Kostornaya - difficult to think of anyone else so talented, so widely admired, who was so close to having it all and yet never even made it to Worlds, no matter medalling there. But she's newly married now and eyeing a different discipline so all the best to her and her husband in both private and skating life! Hope she can still make it and even if not - be happy anyway!
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Yep fingers crossed for Gogo I fear he may be a bit like Nam though Nam after winning Juniors did get fifth at seniors but struggled with that height much like Gogo. and ironically much like Roman - is this a Canadian issue?
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Eva-Lotta Kiibus Estonia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d24S0ofpezU
and this epic FS in Finlandia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NE-GleIRCM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8jmr_LexeI&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9FJdkJgtd8
Unfortunately she struggling with injuries third year in the row and also growing issues. I really hope she will survive all the issues and dont quit yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d24S0ofpezU
and this epic FS in Finlandia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NE-GleIRCM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8jmr_LexeI&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9FJdkJgtd8
Unfortunately she struggling with injuries third year in the row and also growing issues. I really hope she will survive all the issues and dont quit yet
Sasha Cohen, while she did have a great career she struggled to be clean and could have had more victories than she did if she skated clean.
Mikhail Kolyada had the technical and artistic goods that he should have been competing with Hanyu and Chen for the top spot but he struggled to put it all together in competition.
Mikhail Kolyada had the technical and artistic goods that he should have been competing with Hanyu and Chen for the top spot but he struggled to put it all together in competition.
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Yes to both of these, wonderful when they were on, but so often something went off.... Sasha's Olympic freeskate was both heartbreaking and beautiful.
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