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[Reality-TV-Fanatics] The three-time national champion’s Olympic career could be over
January 07, 2018

[Reality-TV-Fanatics] The three-time national champion’s Olympic career could be over

 

  She was furious and IMO rightly so.
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Ashley Wagner fails to make U.S. figure-skating team in early start to Olympic drama

The three-time national champion's Olympic career could be over

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Women's figure skating holds marquee status at the Winter Olympics for its athleticism, artistry and beauty – and occasionally, for the drama that extends beyond the ice.
By those measures, the Games scheduled to being next month in South Korea got an early start at this weekend's U.S. Figure Staking Championships.
Ashley Wagner, a three-time national champion and 2014 Olympian, was supposed to be one of the most endearing, most familiar female athletes representing the United States at the PyeongChang Games. Instead, she will not be there, giving way to a new wave of talent with no well-established star.
Wagner, 26, stood a few feet away and a few feet below the podium Friday night at the conclusion of the women's singles competition at the sport's national championships, a noticeable distance between her and the winners of the three medals. The image could also linger as the uncomfortable end of an era in American figure skating. Hours after Bradie Tennell, 19, completed an unexpected run to her first national championship, a committee of U.S. Figure Skating officials announced that Tennell, nationals silver medalist Miari Nagasu and bronze medalist Karen Chen will comprise the U.S. Olympic women's figure skating team.
The 13-member committee's decision came despite a selection process adjusted in recent years to allow deference to skaters such as Wagner with international track records. Four years ago, the Olympic selection committee chose Wagner, who finished off the podium at the national championships, over Nagasu, a 2010 Olympian who finished on it. This time, Tennell and Nagasu left them little choice for two of the three spots, and Wagner did not provide as strong an overall season as she did then.
"The discussion between Karen and Ashley was pretty academic," U.S. Figure Skating President Sam Auxier said. "Karen was fourth last year" at the world championships. "Ashley was seventh. And then third versus fourth at this year's U.S. championships. It was a very straightforward, clear criteria for selecting Karen as the third member of the team."
Those criteria to which Auxier referred are relatively new. U.S.. Figure Skating officially changed the rules for Olympic selection a year ago, outlining the use of a skater's recent body of work (including, his or her results in most recent world and U.S. championships) as opposed to simply choosing the top three finishers at the national championships, as had been done in the past and is still the method used in many other sports.
This year, the criteria couldn't save the native of Alexandria, Virginia. She needed a strong performance at nationals to cement an Olympic spot after a season curtailed by injury, but entered Friday night's free skate, the more heavily weighted portion of two-part figure-skating competitions, in fifth place. She skated as if undaunted by the pressure, unaffected by having only a month of training for her program performed to music from the movie "La La Land."
She wasn't perfect, but she was initially pleased with her performance, enough to hide her face in her hands in the immediate aftermath, overcome with emotion. When her free-skate score of 130.25 appeared, the spunky veteran shook her head in pointed disagreement. She had not erred much. Her passion was palpable. She thought she deserved better.
When it was all over, Wagner told reporters she was "absolutely furious," a word she repeated over and over.
"For me to put out two programs that I did at this competition as solid as I skated and to get those scores," said Wagner, whose third-place finish in the free skate improved her overall standing only slightly, to fourth. "I am furious."
Wagner's program was not designed to score as many points based on technique or athleticism as Tennell's or Nagasu's, but she has never been known as one of America's best jumpers. Instead, Wagner's trademark is her skating quality, her performative skills, her transitions – in other words, the little artistic elements measured as "component scores." For a "La La Land" program that looked strong in all those ways, Wagner earned a component score of 68.00 for her free skate. Tennell, a strong technical skater who lacks Wagner's polish and maturity in the more subtle aspects of her skates, earned 69.71.
"I understand her disappointment and reaction," Auxier said. "As an ISU judge, frankly I agreed with the judging. I think when she reviews what she did, her mistake in the short program was very costly. Missing a level in the free skate on a spin at the end, those points made the difference."
Whether the points should have come, whatever the reason they didn't, Wagner's Olympic dream – and probably Olympic career – is over. The three-time national champion and 2014 Olympian was supposed to be one of the most familiar American woman representing the United States in South Korea. In her place will be Tennell, 19; Chen, 18; and Nagasu, a relative veteran at 24 and perhaps the most compelling tale of all of trio.
Throughout this week, Nagasu was asked over and over about what happened four years ago, when the committee chose Wagner despite a disappointing nationals that season. Between then and now, the organization clarified its position, outlining clear criteria for Olympic selection that weighted the last year and a half of results in tiers. Asked whether she thought the committee should simplify its selection process and select the top three finishers at the U.S. championships in an Olympic year, Nagasu paused before smiling.
This time, she rendered the selection procedures irrelevant to her case. Nagasu, the second American woman to land a triple axel in international competition, is as technically advanced as anyone that could have represented the United States in South Korea. She is as experienced as anyone. She will be the only Olympic veteran on the women's team.
"It's hard for me. I'm ecstatic for myself because this was my goal and my dream," Nagasu said. "But at the same time, a part of me really feels for [Wagner] because she is an amazing skater and one of our strongest competitors."
Whether fairly or not, whether she was ready or not, Wagner's Olympic career likely came to an inglorious end Friday night, when she stood just outside the podium, smiling in the face of deep disappointment, then railing against it, faced with the frustrating reality of her near Olympic miss.


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[BigBrother_Survivor] The three-time national champion’s Olympic career could be over
January 07, 2018

[BigBrother_Survivor] The three-time national champion’s Olympic career could be over

 

  She was furious and IMO rightly so.
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Ashley Wagner fails to make U.S. figure-skating team in early start to Olym...

After finishing just off the podium at the U.S. championships, the three-time national champion's Olympic career...

Ashley Wagner fails to make U.S. figure-skating team in early start to Olympic drama

The three-time national champion's Olympic career could be over

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Women's figure skating holds marquee status at the Winter Olympics for its athleticism, artistry and beauty – and occasionally, for the drama that extends beyond the ice.
By those measures, the Games scheduled to being next month in South Korea got an early start at this weekend's U.S. Figure Staking Championships.
Ashley Wagner, a three-time national champion and 2014 Olympian, was supposed to be one of the most endearing, most familiar female athletes representing the United States at the PyeongChang Games. Instead, she will not be there, giving way to a new wave of talent with no well-established star.
Wagner, 26, stood a few feet away and a few feet below the podium Friday night at the conclusion of the women's singles competition at the sport's national championships, a noticeable distance between her and the winners of the three medals. The image could also linger as the uncomfortable end of an era in American figure skating. Hours after Bradie Tennell, 19, completed an unexpected run to her first national championship, a committee of U.S. Figure Skating officials announced that Tennell, nationals silver medalist Miari Nagasu and bronze medalist Karen Chen will comprise the U.S. Olympic women's figure skating team.
The 13-member committee's decision came despite a selection process adjusted in recent years to allow deference to skaters such as Wagner with international track records. Four years ago, the Olympic selection committee chose Wagner, who finished off the podium at the national championships, over Nagasu, a 2010 Olympian who finished on it. This time, Tennell and Nagasu left them little choice for two of the three spots, and Wagner did not provide as strong an overall season as she did then.
"The discussion between Karen and Ashley was pretty academic," U.S. Figure Skating President Sam Auxier said. "Karen was fourth last year" at the world championships. "Ashley was seventh. And then third versus fourth at this year's U.S. championships. It was a very straightforward, clear criteria for selecting Karen as the third member of the team."
Those criteria to which Auxier referred are relatively new. U.S.. Figure Skating officially changed the rules for Olympic selection a year ago, outlining the use of a skater's recent body of work (including, his or her results in most recent world and U.S. championships) as opposed to simply choosing the top three finishers at the national championships, as had been done in the past and is still the method used in many other sports.
This year, the criteria couldn't save the native of Alexandria, Virginia. She needed a strong performance at nationals to cement an Olympic spot after a season curtailed by injury, but entered Friday night's free skate, the more heavily weighted portion of two-part figure-skating competitions, in fifth place. She skated as if undaunted by the pressure, unaffected by having only a month of training for her program performed to music from the movie "La La Land."
She wasn't perfect, but she was initially pleased with her performance, enough to hide her face in her hands in the immediate aftermath, overcome with emotion. When her free-skate score of 130.25 appeared, the spunky veteran shook her head in pointed disagreement. She had not erred much. Her passion was palpable. She thought she deserved better.
When it was all over, Wagner told reporters she was "absolutely furious," a word she repeated over and over.
"For me to put out two programs that I did at this competition as solid as I skated and to get those scores," said Wagner, whose third-place finish in the free skate improved her overall standing only slightly, to fourth. "I am furious."
Wagner's program was not designed to score as many points based on technique or athleticism as Tennell's or Nagasu's, but she has never been known as one of America's best jumpers. Instead, Wagner's trademark is her skating quality, her performative skills, her transitions – in other words, the little artistic elements measured as "component scores." For a "La La Land" program that looked strong in all those ways, Wagner earned a component score of 68.00 for her free skate. Tennell, a strong technical skater who lacks Wagner's polish and maturity in the more subtle aspects of her skates, earned 69.71.
"I understand her disappointment and reaction," Auxier said. "As an ISU judge, frankly I agreed with the judging. I think when she reviews what she did, her mistake in the short program was very costly. Missing a level in the free skate on a spin at the end, those points made the difference."
Whether the points should have come, whatever the reason they didn't, Wagner's Olympic dream – and probably Olympic career – is over. The three-time national champion and 2014 Olympian was supposed to be one of the most familiar American woman representing the United States in South Korea. In her place will be Tennell, 19; Chen, 18; and Nagasu, a relative veteran at 24 and perhaps the most compelling tale of all of trio.
Throughout this week, Nagasu was asked over and over about what happened four years ago, when the committee chose Wagner despite a disappointing nationals that season. Between then and now, the organization clarified its position, outlining clear criteria for Olympic selection that weighted the last year and a half of results in tiers. Asked whether she thought the committee should simplify its selection process and select the top three finishers at the U.S. championships in an Olympic year, Nagasu paused before smiling.
This time, she rendered the selection procedures irrelevant to her case. Nagasu, the second American woman to land a triple axel in international competition, is as technically advanced as anyone that could have represented the United States in South Korea. She is as experienced as anyone. She will be the only Olympic veteran on the women's team.
"It's hard for me. I'm ecstatic for myself because this was my goal and my dream," Nagasu said. "But at the same time, a part of me really feels for [Wagner] because she is an amazing skater and one of our strongest competitors."
Whether fairly or not, whether she was ready or not, Wagner's Olympic career likely came to an inglorious end Friday night, when she stood just outside the podium, smiling in the face of deep disappointment, then railing against it, faced with the frustrating reality of her near Olympic miss.


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Re: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] U.S. Figure Skating Ratings Leap Up Over 2017, ’20/20′ Hits High, CBS Tops Night
January 07, 2018

Re: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] U.S. Figure Skating Ratings Leap Up Over 2017, ’20/20′ Hits High, CBS Tops Night

 

I have been going to all the figure skating events this week.  Even though I was sad Ashley doesn't get to go.   The other three deserve to go.    I hope you all get to watch the men's long.   It was fantastic and very sad at the same time.  

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  I was hoping Ashley Wagner was going to get to go. 
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U.S. Figure Skating Ratings Leap Up Over 2017, '20/20′ Hits High, CBS Tops Night

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As big winner Bradie Tennell and fourth placer Ashley Wagner will tell you, there were more than a few surprises last night in San Jose at the U.S. Figure Skating Championship (0.8/3). Just over a month before Winter Olympic Games hit the ice, Friday's victor Tennell, Mirai Nagasu and Karen Chen will all be going to PyeongChang, South Korea to represent America.

On an almost full night where CBS came out on top again, another surprise was how NBC's coverage of the skating competition jumped up over its 2017 results among adults 18-49. Clearly without an Olympics directly down the road, compared to the January 22, 2017 airing of the event, last night's Championship was up 100% over that Saturday primetime broadcast – a potential good sign for NBC coming off the demo lows of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
The other direct result of the three-hour skating show was that the scriptedless Comcast owned net was tied with ABC and FOX for second place in the key demo for Friday. Up 33% in the demo from its last original of December 15, Hawaii Five-O (1.2/5) topped the night among the 18-49s and, with 9.9 million watching, in viewers. With an even MacGyver (0.9/4) and Blue Bloods (1.0/4) up 11% from its last new show, the House of Moonves pulled in a 1.0 overall for its 11th Friday win in the demo this season. With an end of week audience of 9.2 million, CBS also claimed its 12th Friday win in total viewers this current season.
Fox had just one original last night with Hell's Kitchen (0.9/4), which was up a tenth from its last original of mid-December. The CW also had a solo newbie on Friday with the return of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (0/2.1), which was the same as its last original. Back on the still Murdoch owned network, the Gordon Ramsay cooking competition matched MacGyver and the debut of ABC's Child Support (0.9/4) in the 8 PM slot, to provide the Disney owned net it best result in 14 weeks in the time period.
In fact, as show after show returned from its winter break, ABC had a good night with Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (0.7/3) rising 17% among adults 18-49s over its December 22 airing. Of course, the real good news for the net was how well the much-promoted Gypsy Rose Blanchard interview did for 20/20 (0.8/3). Like the figure skating on NBC, the news mag was up 100% over last week in the 18-49 demo to hit a season high. Add to that a 120% rise in the 25-54 new demo and 83% in viewers (4.2 million) from its December 29 show and you have a very happy House of Mouse going into the weekend.
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[Reality-TV-Fanatics] Sunday TV - January 07, 2018
January 07, 2018

[Reality-TV-Fanatics] Sunday TV - January 07, 2018

 

NEW:
 
8:00 AM DISNEY XD marvel's avengers: secret wars: the eye of agamotto, part one (#416)
8:30 AM DISNEY XD marvel's avengers: secret wars: the eye of agamotto, part two (#417)
10:00 AM NICK JR regal academy: the frog villain (#207)
1:05 PM CBS nfl special: afc wild card game: buffalo at jacksonville
[special presentation]
4:00 PM E! e! special: e! countdown to the red carpet - the 2018 golden globes
[two-hour special presentation]
4:40 PM FOX nfl special: nfc wild card game: carolina at new orleans
[special presentation]
6:00 PM E! e! special: e! live from the red carpet - the 2018 golden globe awards
[two-hour special presentation]
  TLC sister wives: countdown to the new season 
[two-hour special presentation]
  OXYGEN snapped: valerie pape (#2206)
7:00 PM CBS 60 minutes: tba
  NICK dude perfect show, the: dog show, wrestling (#213)
  OXYGEN final appeal: patty prewitt (#101-120)
[two-hour series premiere]
  NBC nbc special: 2018 golden globe arrivals special
[one-hour special presentation]
7:30 PM NICK school of rock: kool thing (#311)
8:00 PM ABC america's funniest home videos: episode 2809 (#2809)
  HGTV beachfront bargain hunt: episode 1707 (#1707)
[returns from hiatus - new time slot]
  COOKING best thing i ever ate, the: bay area (#713)
  GAC flea market flip: the circle of junk (#1104)
  TRAVEL food paradise: saucy (#706)
  FOOD guy's grocery games: clash of the classics (#1505)
  NBC nbc special: the 75th annual golden globe awards
[three-hour special presentation]
  BRAVO real housewives of atlanta, the: a mad tea party (#1008)
  FOX simpsons, the: haw-haw land (SI-2903)
[29th season winter premiere]
  TLC sister wives: meri moving? (#801-120)
[two-hour 8th season premiere]
  CBS wisdom of the crowd: root directory (#WOC112)
[1s season winter premiere]
8:30 PM HGTV beachfront bargain hunt: room for everyone in galveston, texas (#1611)
  FOX ghosted: snatcher (GHO-109)
[1st season winter premiere]
  CBSAA star trek: discovery: despite yourself (#110)
[1st season winter premiere]
9:00 PM DISCOVERY alaska: the last frontier: hunting on land and sea
  HMC aurora teagarden mystery, an: last scene alive (#1007)
[two-hour special presentation]
  HGTV bahamas life: treasure cay stole their heart (#106)
[series premiere]
  DIY building alaska: keeping morale up (#801)
[8th season premiere]
  ID evil lives here: the monster i married (#302)
[3rd season premiere]
  FOX family guy: boy (dog) meets girl (dog) (FG-1509)
[15th season winter premiere]
  E! keeping up with the kardashians: mother's keeper (#1413)
  CBS ncis: los angeles: under pressure (#LA911)
[9th season winter premiere]
  ANIMAL PLANET north woods law: out of control (#1001)
[10th season premiere]
  SHOWTIME shameless: the fugees (#809)
  ABC shark tank: episode 915 (#915)
  BRAVO to rome for love: ciao bella! (#101)
[series premiere]
  TRAVEL travel special: best in snow
  FOOD worst cooks in america: can it really be this bad? (#1201)
[12th season premiere]
9:30 PM CBSAA after trek: despite yourself (#110)
[1st season winter premiere]
  HGTV bahamas life: grand bahama grandma (#109)
  FOX last man on earth, the: karl (LME-409)
10:00 PM DIY building alaska: progress is messy (#802)
  SHOWTIME chi, the: pilot (#101)
[series premiere]
  COOKING food: fact or fiction?: the shape of things (#311)
  HGTV island life: mom and son move to key west (#1102)
[11th season premiere]
  ANIMAL PLANET lone star law: tba (#301)
[3rd season premiere]
  CBS madam secretary: mitya (#MS411)
[4th season winter premiere]
  ID on the case with paula zahn: stacy's story (#1606)
  E! revenge body with khloé kardashian: web of lies & mommy issues (#201)
[2nd season premiere]
  ABC shark tank: episode 916 (#916)
  TRAVEL travel special: best in ice
  TLC unexpected: baby bumps (#108)
[1st season finale]
10:30 PM HGTV island life: ocean breeze on topsail island (#1103)
11:00 PM E! e! special: e! after party - the 2018 golden globe awards
[one-hour special presentation]
  NGC startalk: stephen colbert (#413)
  BRAVO watch what happens live with andy cohen: tyra banks and nene leakes (#15001)
[15th season premiere]
11:30 PM ADULT SWIM robot chicken: scoot to the gute (#903)
 
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