Larsen’s Mom’s response to the injury on twitter was... quite touching actually.

It was a bad call indeed, and the more I ponder it this afternoon, aasotm, the more I think the problem is not the choice of theme by itself, but the fact that they chose to skate it in this particular setting(I went on about this a bit more in the reply above). Navka and an actor on a reality show? Baaaad decision…

Just that because of the pro-am format, whatever they ended up doing was going to look a bit silly, and no doubt it was a poor choice of theme for that reason. It was not, however, deserving of the kind of reaction it’s gotten from Keith Olbermann et al. And I think it would be entirely possible, especially in a…

Thanks for the explanation, Samer; there’s been a lot of knee-jerking over this, and it’s nice to see that someone did some research on what was actually going on! “Jarring” rather than “tasteless” is probably a fair description of the routine, part of the problem being that Andrey Burkovskiy is not actually an…