Re: Trophee Lalique - Much improved!!

>Subject: Trophee Lalique - Much improved!!
>From: "Trish O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Date: 11/30/2003 7:19 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Since I was so disgusted with the ABC team at Skate Canada, I wanted to take
>a minute to say "Thanks! Trophee Lalique was much better!"  Susie and Terry
>managed to acknowledge that other skaters manage to do things well.  Susie
>even managed a very oblique comment that danced right up to the edge of
>suggesting that there was something Sasha could improve upon - I hope she
>doesn't get in trouble for it <g>.  Peter, you still gush over Sasha, but
>I'll forgive you this time because you were also very nice to Arakawa and
>Sebesteyn.
>
>I guess the real test will be the GP Final in two weeks when Dick and Peggy
>are back in the booth.  I hope we don't go back the the
>"Coronation-of-Little-Miss-Fabulous-whom-other-skaters-are-not-worthy-to-be-
>sharing-ice-with-and-should-be-relegated-to-licking-her-blades-clean."  We
>shall see...
>
>Trish

Yes, Susie said, with some prompting from Terry, that Sasha's problems are not
one of focus, but actually of technique... that Sasha was so flexible that her
flexibility was not strong and contained and therefore she loses the technique
(in other areas) when she's over eager.

This is clearly something Dick and Peggy would never have said.  They attribute
all Sasha's mistakes to some elusive "lack of focus."

Debo