Am also Canadian: from context I’ve figured it’s a food delivery app Americans love. Like Uber Eats, Skip the Dishes, Foodora, or whatever.

I think the rotations used in jumping can screw up bone development (this is according to an article I read last winter olympics). Supposedly its more of a problem in women’s skating than mens.

Yes. Figure skating needs age minimums. So Liu and her prepubescent Russian peers can do triple and in some cases quad jumps. That means they can jump. It ignores the fact that because they are CHILDREN they cannot interpret music, or give a skating program emotional depth. They are jumping beans on ice.

Puberty is the problem. It helps male skaters, but for female skaters, they wind up with a body that doesn’t rotate as fast, with a different center of gravity. So, the message that puberty and physics is sending to girls, is:

Many young athletes quit or burn out. Nobody cares about the child’s well being. We have laws for a reason. Kids shouldn’t compete with adults. They should not be pushed so hard at a young age. Sadly, nobody cares. 

One thing you’re ignoring here is the physical toll on these young girls developing bodies.

Yes. As others have mentioned, the type of training required at this level can do a lot of permanent physical and mental harm.

I’m really disappointed by this article, and surprised because I can’t recall reading something by Dvora that wasn’t good. As others have mentioned, you don’t mention the MAJOR issues of mental development and physical/sexual abuse of very young athletes. And your tone is so dismissive in some parts: “And it’s also a…

Yes, they need minimums because it’s already way too easy to exploit kids as performers/athletes. Giving asshole parents and national sports organizations free rein to create little gold-medal machines with tiny windows of success and then tossing them aside just creates incentives for the worst actors.

I’d say that the older skaters are still generally more skilled than the young girls who are doing quads. There is more to skating than the jumps and spins even if those elements are the most spectacular and most easily understood by a general audience.

You talk a lot about the physical aspects of age, but neglect anything about mental developmental.

“Does Figure Skating Really Need Age Minimums?”

Anyone that covets a Cerises Speedy (or, horror of horrors, one of those white and rainbow monogram monstrosities) doesn’t get to call anyone or anything else “basic.”

“Even during her lifetime, Wilder had to apologize for a line in Little House on the Prairie that said Kansas had “no people, only Indians.” More recent editions of the book now read “no settlers, only Indians.””

Non-obvious hot take: this guy was OLD to be taking up serial murder as a hobby.

The scary thing is there are a number of unsolved gay murders in Toronto from the late 70s. McArthur worked right downtown during that period. As the experts are saying, no serial killer starts in his 60s.

The Toronto Police Chief also blamed the gay community for not cooperating with police enough and that’s why they didn’t solve this case sooner. Such a load of garbage. The only reason there was any attention on this was because the gay community was vocal and persistent in the face of losing their own. So glad this…

I feel like this sort of argument can be made of any historical fashion, though. Also, it doesn’t take into account that the ‘settler’ style dress and skirt are also staples of many traditional Native American tribes’ clothing.

Wait, you trash the baguette but covet the cherry bag?!!! That shit is playboy bunny, ‘going out top’, chunky highlights basic AF.

“A casual flex to say that she’s on a texting basis with Lorde and Grande, but that’s neither here nor there. Halsey makes a good point here...”