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skatingguy said:
You find out that Marina Zueva has been training to be speed skater in the Olympics for the past few years explaining her limited coaching during this period.


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I had a similar cackle when I heard that name.

And on that note, same event, first Canadian medal by 35 year old La Baie, QC, Valérie Maltais in the 3000m (speed skating) behind the surprising and dominant performance from Lolobrigida, the local favourite.
 
....you dream your neighbour asks if you have spare skates and a competition dress that would fit her two-year-old granddaughter, who you know goes to a Baby Blades playgroup at your local rink, because the toddler has suddenly been called up by Skate Canada as a last-minute alternate for the Olympics. When you express surprise because she's underage, her grandmother explains that the whole Canadian women's hockey team has caught norovirus from the Finns and Canada's top women figure skaters are all being pressed into service as hockey players, so the IOC has waived the age eligibility rules and younger skaters are being summoned. She says Mike Slipchuk had happened to be at our rink and had watched the playgroup. Noting that little Cara was the only toddler who could do the Wriggleworm backwards as well as forwards, he had made a note of her as a promising newcomer.

So you say one of your life-sized dolls may have a skating dress that would fit, that you'll ask @Ic3Rabbit to recommend boots and blades for her......and then you wake up and decide that a sandwich of chunky almond butter on cheese bread had been perhaps not the wisest choice for a bedtime snack.
 
Diana Delafield said:
....you dream your neighbour asks if you have spare skates and a competition dress that would fit her two-year-old granddaughter, who you know goes to a Baby Blades playgroup at your local rink, because the toddler has suddenly been called up by Skate Canada as a last-minute alternate for the Olympics. When you express surprise because she's underage, her grandmother explains that the whole Canadian women's hockey team has caught norovirus from the Finns and Canada's top women figure skaters are all being pressed into service as hockey players, so the IOC has waived the age eligibility rules and younger skaters are being summoned. She says Mike Slipchuk had happened to be at our rink and had watched the playgroup. Noting that little Cara was the only toddler who could do the Wriggleworm backwards as well as forwards, he had made a note of her as a promising newcomer.

So you say one of your life-sized dolls may have a skating dress that would fit, that you'll ask @Ic3Rabbit to recommend boots and blades for her......and then you wake up and decide that a sandwich of chunky almond butter on cheese bread had been perhaps not the wisest choice for a bedtime snack.
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Craziest dream I have ever read on here.

You win.
PS. Stay away from cheese bread
 
Just an update on something I posted here a couple of weeks ago.

CaroLiza_fan said:
...when you go to the dentist's, and get told that you have to come back in 2 weeks and are given an appointment. And when you get home, the first thing you do, before you even take your coat off, is to check the Coloured Time Schedule for the Olympics to see if you are going to miss any skating. :eek:

By sheer luck, it's one of the days between competitions. :cheer: :clap: :rock: :party2: :points: :hb:

But then you look at the actual times of the competitions, and realise that they all in the evenings and that you will be not be able to watch LIVE. And, hence, you will be catching up the following day. So, it will interfere with your viewing after all. :mad:

And there I was thinking that it was good to have a European Olympics again, as it would mean the competitions would be during the daytime...

CaroLiza_fan
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Diana Delafield said:
You mean you didn't then change the appointment? :wonder: I would have phoned back and said "Sorry, I checked my calendar when I got home and I can't make that time/day. How about...." after figuring out when wouldn't interfere with my Olympics-watching :coffee::popcorn:
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To be honest, the dentist sounded like it shouldn't be left too long, so I wanted to get it done as soon as possible.

You see, when I was a kid, I had braces. And a couple of teeth had to be taken out to make space for the others to be straightened. And then a bridge tooth was put in to fill in the gap when the other teeth got into the correct position. Well, one of the wings of the bridge has now come loose, and it needs re-attached.

But, as it turned out, I'm currently dosed rotten with the cold. So, I have now changed the appointment. To 2 days after the Closing Ceremony! :biggrin:

It's not nice being sick, but it all worked out perfectly in the end.

CaroLiza_fan
 
...when you see the announcement of Cyprus' Olympic team (two Alpine Skiers), and the first think you think is "oh, the girl has the same name as one of my skating kids who I haven't seen since before the pandemic".

And then you start getting this niggling feeling that this skier might actually be your skating kid.

And that feeling grows over the next couple of weeks. And you finally check last night.

It is her!!! :jaw:

I have another kid at the Olympics and I didn't even know it! :drama:

CaroLiza_fan
 
When the 4-year or new figure skating fans on social media are surprised and annoyed and disappointed that figure skating disappears so quickly from Peacock and your only thought is, "It's been this way for at least four years now; I'm used to it." It doesn't mean I don't wish it was different, but I am accustomed to it. It is what it is and I make plans and find workarounds instead.

I don't tell my real-life friends the livestream schedules for events, though, because watching a full stream if you're a newbie is a lot and I know they won't have or want to take that much time. So the subject of Peacock replays never comes up. I talk about what happened and show them selected programs instead.
 
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