annfoxlee wrote:

I had the same reaction to the news that Evan was going to do SOI instead of competing.  Whhaaa? The self-proclaimed hardest working skater alive isn't going?  Hmph.

Olympic champions usually don't go to worlds in the olympic year. None of the olympic champions went to Calgary in 2006. There is nothing wrong with Evan taking whatever opportunities he gets. Yes, he is probabéy the most hardworking male competitor of the current field, he earned most of his international achievements fair and square, he deserves some time for himself now, after devoting his entire youth to this sport.

  

~Brigi

"Keeper of Johnny's Mickey Mouse shirt & his way of caressing the ice"
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