Imposter Syndrome

Wonder if they ever have it?
They'll have six World Championships
and an Olympic gold medal when they're
done, and that's assuming they won't follow-up
the Olympics with Worlds in 2022.

I suspect Charlie White knows he and Meryl weren't the best skaters and never defeated Virtue Moir on the ice, but bought into the idea that perceived off-ice merit was a valid element in competitive outcomes. Hard work, sacrifice, good sportsmanship, waiting their turn.

Papadakis & Cizeron at the moment look like figure skating didn't think long term. The most any competitor can hope for is a Grand Prix title when P&C routinely come down with an injury during the series. Otherwise, the top spot is locked in and the sport has left itself no exit strategy.

Missed this until now:

Ilyushechkina Bilodeau:



We'll see. They look good together. Glad she's still an enthusiastic Canadian.

I did some surfing to see what fresh sham was out there, almost forgetting speculation as to why the whole sham process may have been revived (pregnancy). Tessa's social media output is so stylized

it could be pregnancy or just aesthetic.

In Pyeongchang, Scott's personal aesthetic was almost on par with an instagram model's - his crow's feet, which once extended across his cheekbones, were then just faint lines at the corners of his eyeballs. I guessed they felt they had to leave nothing to chance after the way "fat" had been weaponized in the 2014 narrative against VM. Only in figure skating would a supernaturally beautiful pair like VM be made to feel on the defensive in the beauty stakes. I'm not a fan of the hyper polished, erase everything standard and especially not a fan of a body and self-positivity message coupled with extreme filtering.

Ok.

Well, SHE's presenting as excited.

But the medium is still the message and I'm not a fan of this medium.