HartofDixie

In her Today Show interviewed she mentioned a competition she’s getting ready for and she just had 4CC unless she thinks Mirai will skip Worlds and she’ll go to that. Sucks that Ross is choosing not to go but the 2nd alternate was a big slap in the face and he probably wants his last skates to be Nationals.

It's 2 hours but worth it! This and That: 2018 U.S. Nationals

Ashley will make an appearance tomorrow on The Today Show. Will be curious to see if she says anything negative though I'm sure her people have told her to keep it positive. The Shib Sibs are favorites to make to make the podium in dance but they are not going as the national champs and are dance teams are in a virtual tie. There is always the team medal.

http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/22011755/gymnast-maggie-nichols-says-was-first-alert-usa-gymnastics-abuse-larry-nassar

From Jackie Wong: http://www.rockerskating.com/news/2018/1/8/opining-on-2018-us-championships-part-1-making-sense-of-criteria

He medalled in both his GP events this season (he beat Nathan in the free at one of them) has placed top 10 at 2016 worlds, 2016 National champion...

Correct link: https://www.ifsmagazine.com/canada-invites-global-audience-nationals/ Frank decided to end things with Gracie after the 2017 Nationals but told the media before he told her! Her live tweets this weekend were epic and worth reading thru.

My prediction is that the singles will split the team event though I think our ice dance teams are more deserving of being part of that medal. Nate & Bradie for short, Adam & Mirai for free. I think they will want the Shibs in but with H&D winning I’m not sure.

Link to the free live stream of Canadian nationals. Hopefully less drama! https://www.ifsmagazine.com/canada-invites-global-audience-nationals/

I wonder if Ashley not getting named to the team affected his performance. I wish they waited until Sunday night/Monday morning to announce the entire team.

If Mariah didn’t have that fall on her last jump I think she would have stayed ahead of Ashley and got the pewter medal. I think that conspiracy theory of Ashley falling out favor after Skate America might be true!

Gracie was live tweeting during the men's event. This one was my favorite! https://mobile.twitter.com/GraceEGold/status/949134677696159745

Men’s live feed

You tube channel 1TVDance posted the ladies short videos. Youtube channel FSlive1 did livestream it but i'll need to paste the link as it may not be public.

PCS were a bit low for some skaters and Bradie is the new Gracie.

He just performed with Stars on Ice Legends in Lake Placid. But then you have someone like Yulia Lipnitskaya who had her Olympic skate during the team event. By the time the ladies competed nerves/pressure got to her.

If you don't have NBCSN or the Olympic channel follow the results here: http://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2018/26192/results.html Practice session videos

Not sure what happened with Kwan and Frank but wasn’t their a rumor that he kicked her out over money? Goebel got married as did Cohen - not sure if she’s with 60 minutes but I believe she’s writing. Evan works for Vera Wang and they are a couple/married? I think Emily got married this year.

Michelle is starting to get her triples back.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/how-watch-us-figure-skating-national-championships

US & Canadian Nationals preview: http://www.rockerskating.com/news/2017/12/26/2018-us-and-canadian-championships-entries-and-schedule

Russian and Japanese nationals are going on right now. YT channel 1tvdance has all the Russian Skates.

Unreal https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amp/mckayla-maroney-says-usa-gymnastics-tried-silence-her-abuse-story-n831416

Named to the Olympic team

Michelle is jumping ?