I was scratching my head for 10 sec trying to remember who Kiyori is LOL. Regarding Shcherbakova, look, we all thought she wont last long since juniors, but 3 years in, she's still here and now 3 times russian champ. If she can do that, then she can managed to pull herself for the next 10 months. Yes, she's shy, polite, naturally pale, not as impulsive as Kostornaia, not as powerful as Trusova, but she has a great mental fortitude. In men's, i think Nathan will come on top. Crossing fingers Kolyada wont crush under pressure.

If you watch Anna's interviews, she's the one who is outspoken with a clear understanding of what she wants from the sport. She may be expressive and sensitive to the music on the ice, but she has a strong character and mentality. Plus, she's one of the only ones who has the passion for the sport, and as she's actually happy when she's skating as she feels free to show her emotions...

Did Meagan listen at least one interview of Anna before making statements about her motivation to keep continuing to skate?! Anna seems to me the most intelligent and mature skater for the last few years. She looks ill? Maybe this year. Does other girls from eteri group look ill you say? is gracie gold healthy mentally and physically? Is Daleman healthy? absolutely not. And there are plenty of them that had lost their health and meanwhile had nothing achived in sports.

The World According to Meaghan: If you’re not doing weekly 6 minute warm - ups in costumes with taped run throughs submitted to judges and technical specialists then you’re NOT doing drag. ❄️ 💅🏻

So Meagan Duhamel can't enjoy Shcherbakova's skating because of the way her body is? Well too bad, I couldn't enjoy Duhamel's skating because I couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman but I wasn't openly badmouthing her. Perhaps she should concentrate on herself instead of body shaming teenagers.

You know what's really unhealthy and sad? When you are a retired athlete and push your own vision about how others should act and look on active athletes. Seriously, WTF she is saying about Anna? She shamed her not only for her body but also for her personality! If someone doesn't jump like crazy to celebrate victory it doesn't mean they lacks "energy" or doesn't enjoy the moment. And ofc It doesn't mean they are "tortured". Anna has calm personality and artistic style of skating, she is happy the way she is. Idk maybe it's a cultural thing and everyone in Canada is extroverted and loud, but in Russia we have a good saying: "happiness prefers quietness"

Anna only looks vulnerable and kinda weak because of her fragile appearance. This girl is really strong in reality, a true fan of skating and has pretty wise thoughts. Just watch some of her interviews ;)

Anna skated beautifully, captivated an empty arena, bearing her Russian soul. It’s seemingly something which some fail to comprehend and I guess to even to truly admire. Bravo Anna:)

You clearly underestimate Sherbakova and who she's as a person. Yes, she looks subtle, but has an 'iron will'. She was the first to jump quad in Eteri's group, then broke her leg, then returned. Yes, she skated ill in RusNats, but it wasn't her coaches who pushed her, it was she, herself, who insisted to compete there. She has an undying passion for skating and despite puberty problems that affect her skating and may result in problems next year, if she manages to avoid serious injury, she'll continue skating post Olympics and gonna be competitive.

I would love to have that technology again from Japanese Nationals where they see where they jump and spin and how fast they are.

I think I can't enjoy Meghan Duhamel in the first place. It's not about saying she supports someone more, it's literally attacking a person (like "I wish XY to win" vs. "I wish AB to lose" for completely irrational, stupid reasons she gave). Such a disgrace to herself she made. Absolutely disrespectful, hating attitude. Which is not a suprise as she did similarly foul comments before about Alina Zagitova. And her "let Trusova work with foreign specialists" is like "Nah, he can possibly spendsome money on my friends" (which is funny as Kostornaia's programs made by Bourne were totally low-tier).

Roman's spliced together FS video is still one of the best things to come out of the past year, so more of that type of creativity would be so welcome. Thanks for this show; I felt unprepared for Worlds, but now I'm ready!

You guys are SO biased towards Anna. She is so strong mentally and she genuinely loves skating. you say you want “well-rounded” skater, then goes on criticizing Anna ( who has the most emotion, expression during skating among these three ladies). It is just hypocritical. Also, people are saying no body shaming, but judging Anna for having a thin body...I do enjoy watching TSL, but I just can’t bear with Meagan’s prejudices.

Meagan saying 'Eatery' is everything!!! 🤣

What is the matter with Meagan that she must always bash someone and state her opinion so assertively?..

1:14:45 ladies

Can't believe how incredibly meanspirited, rude, judgemental and cruel Meagan's comments about Anna were.

It is really good point about Kostornaya moving to Tuthberidze-Pluschenko-Tuthberidze and geography. There are great trainers, there are geographical distances, but age matters too. Kolyada is 26th and he is from S.P, Kostornaya is from Moscow and she is 17th, she lives with parents and depends on them, that is making moving to another city much more difficult.

This woman is disgusting. Anna’s mother is also slim, having 3 kids. That’s genetics. Her body is normal and healthy. Not only Tuktamisheva’s body is healthy, people have different genetics and figures. That’s absolutely inappropriate who the hell is she to decide whose body is fine and whose is bad. It’s bodyshaming and lookism. She insulted girl for nothing. Atrocious

Of course, I am not an expert, but I cannot see such a huge change in Sasha's technique that others see in a new team. I think Sasha improves only for maturing. She is growing and its effect on her skate. EP looks like he doesn't know how to train the 'rocket' and just gives her the ice and allows her to do whatever she wants. He even said Sasha many trains herself... But the European champion can not train by herself like Sasha and collapse in a half-season.

No surprises there Megan picking Trusova who is all muscle just like Megan unlike Anna who is a fragile delicate skater - nothing at all like Megan - its the difference between Megan and Katia Gordeeva

It is bodyshaming! Where is your tolerance? A shame!

Oh God, Dave has been predicting doom and gloom ever since she won her first Rusnats, she has already won her third Rusnats and he still does it.

The return of our favorite guest! And on Saturday no less. You’re really treating us.

Meagan is my favorite interlocutor with you guys. She fits in so perfectly, doesn't dominate the conversation in the way that some of your co-co-hosts do, and provides hugely interesting insight as a recent competitor. It's exciting to have big names on TSL to preview/recap but sometimes I don't love that the third commentator disrupts the normal banter that I love from TSL. She's a perfectly integrated third voice.

Megan is very biased about Anna

Yes i am an Anna fan ; but please stop saying that she looks unhealty . I had a girlfriend that was 1m68 and weighted 44 kg when she was 18 . Today she reached 48 kg . she never folowed any diet and was an aikido teacher for more than 35 years. Look at Anna's mother and so manny girls of Anna's age .. they are skinny AND healthy.

I would recommend you to watch Anna's interviews and not feel sorry for her. Don't like Meagan's biased manner.

Dave said at one point that skaters tend to like skaters like them. It’s so true, seeing that Meagan likes Tuktamysheva and Trusova so much

Dave can we have Meagan back for the worlds recap? She's my security blanket

On SATURDAY? It is like Christmas has come early! 🤪🤣

"Maybe they're just not capable of more." I've never heard that before outside of Michelle Kwan alluding to it in her interview with you. She said it was about knowing what you could do and accepting your limitations with the goal of skating a clean program. Props to Meagan for keeping it real from a skaters point of view.

Where to watch? It isn't available to my country. Is there a FB live ???

I don't think Mishin will simply just accept anyone that wants to work with him. There was an interview with Artur Dimitriev where he said that Mishin did not want to train his son.

Everyone in the comment section who is body shaming the skaters SHAME ON YOU. THEM NOT HAVING THE BEST PRACTICE DOES NOT MEAN ITS BECAUSE THEIR BODY. IF YALL WHO WERE BODY SHAMING WERE SMART YOU WOULD KNOW THAT THEIR ALL HUMAN NOT ROBOTS AND HAVE A BAD SKATE SOMETIMES. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YALL BODY SHAMERS TRY SKATING OUT THEIR AND SEE HOW EASY IT IS.

My prediction for the women: 1. Trusova 2. Shcherbakova 3. Kihira 4. Tuktamysheva 5. Sakamoto 6. Tennell 7. Miyahara

I find it to be so interesting that Megan has a hard time understanding why someone doesn’t improve given that her refinement to her body movement was A figment of her imagination throughout most of her career and the improvement to it was imperceptible to us. Also, the Chinese team has seemed to figure out the side-by-side Triple sal and even if they never did, I would bet any dollar amount that more of us go to rewatch their skating than Megan and Eric ‘s. For most of her career, while Megan did achieve some truly brilliant technical feats and was very good at laying it down when it counted, she ended her career skating like a wooden Pinocchio doll and there was still a rigid and ( taking liberty with a word ) terse quality to her body movement . Why didn’t that improve to a magnitude that would make someone notice? Because I am telling you, it was just as bad when she retired as it was when the pair was formed. Was it because that was the nadir of her ability ? What’s more shocking is that she was the queen of arguing with people in comments and trying to defend it... she should have the easiest time understanding how even after a pandemic , some skaters won’t improve to her lofty standards , the same way she didn’t improve. Tarasova’s disdain might have been harsh about Meghan but, she was right!

I'm rooting for Jason Brown. I love watching him. He may not have a program full of quads but his skating is beautiful and so are his programs.

8:29 remember though some skaters countries had their ice rinks closed. In the UK the rinks were only open for elite skaters from mid May to November and have been closed from March to May and November until now. They won’t reopen until May 2021.

Off topic but on the subject of Russians and masks - as someone who’s Russian but been living abroad for 10 yrs and now came back to Moscow for a few months, I get the outrage and I’m myself constantly furious at ppl never wearing masks in public places here. That being said, I want to paint the picture of how it’s like here to bridge the gap in understanding why the Russians keep doing that, because I think it’s a little unfair to constantly blame the skaters/coaches so aggressively for this. First off, unlike in the US and Europe, there’s never developed a new ‘social standard’ of wearing masks. The government has never coherently mandated wearing them - even more so, there are barely any restrictions on social gatherings (except when it comes to jailing ppl for protesting against the government). Some shops mandate masks, but others don’t care, and public figures don’t ever wear masks, there is just no consensus on the importance of masks. While from the perspective of a place where that is a strict requirement this is firmly implanted in everyone’s psyche - imagine if they never were required, do you think ppl in the US would just develop the mask-wearing standard by themselves? I honestly don’t think so, I think it took many conversations in the society to relay the importance of that. On the contrary, in Russia the government has realized that quarantine measures make them unpopular (as everywhere in the world) and decided to pretend like covid is not a thing. Second, as a result of this, literally most people here have had covid, and I think that makes people less scared of it - even though most of us here know somebody who passed away from it or had a very serious case of it. But it also does seem to me that hospitals here are better with treating it - while there are no stats to truly compare, I know that here doctors have to actually come home to visit the person that tested positive and keep track of how they’re doing, and hospitals admit, for free of course, many people at much earlier stages than critical (which, as far as I know, is the only stage when ppl can get admitted in many other places), and because of close monitoring in the hospitals and early treatment with meds like antibodies injections ppl manage to not get to those critical stages and hence not to stretch icu resources in the same way. Doctors that come home to you recommend you do a CT scan, monitor your lungs, if you have temperature for more than a few days. Many people here take plenty of igg/igm blood tests, which are pretty cheap and widely available, after the illness to monitor if you are still immune. I think covid is not perceived to be as lethal here as in many other places. Third, half joking but, life here is just hard full stop and the chances of you dying here on the street in winter from an icicle falling on top of your head is kinda high as well as all the other hazards - and you kind of take a risk here by just living here you know. So risk tolerance is high here. So all of that is to say - there are many things that are just very different in different countries, and the extent to which covid is viewed as a crisis differs. I know it’s natural to take the viewpoint of the society you’re immersed in and see it as the only true position, but I think you’re forgetting that your position is the result of your elected representatives, respected scientists, news and hence people around you constantly stressing some points and highlighting importance of things - such as properly wearing a mask over your nose. To you it seems completely natural, because there is a collective understanding that we are in a crisis mode - but how would these skaters acquire this awareness if nobody in their surrounding talks about it? It’s not a thing for them, just an inconvenience, they don’t believe they present a health hazard. It’s unfortunate, but I think you also have to get off your high horses for a minute sometimes and try to be a little more compassionate.

As much as I'm rooting for my middle child Anna, I think Trusova winning gold would benefit this sport the most. Sasha has the most publicity worldwide and mainstream media gets very excited about her quads, I feel like her win would get more people interested in this sport than Anna's or Rika's.

All russian skaters are tested in most of championships and always the results are negative, and now, again you state that they are doping? this is a shame a both of you are pathetic, if you have proves of doping in Eteri's girls, just show them, you talk about abuses and that they look miserable? do you have proves? as "impartial and objective" you are so show them, abuses and doping we saw in USA women gymnastic team, and there are a lots os proves about that and victims silenced in order to get a medal

Megan thinks that great choreography is outside of Russia. That is not nice to say. Russian schools are producing great skating this year and Misha’ Fs is the best fs of the season ( local choreo). It is offending us Russians to say that better choreo is outside. They should utilize Russian schools and dancing traditions to their best potential inside Russia. They can ask the Bolshoi and Kirov to help out with choreo. Nobody can beat these.

Vincent Zhou’s layout is giving me hives

Does anyone know how to watch the world championships in Mexico?

From social media, tarasova/Morozov seem in a much better place mentally this season

First like once again 😉 Excited for this episode. Love you guys!

Where is everyone getting the planned program content?

Vey weid comment by Meaghan about Yuzuru doing the same programs all the time. Zigeunerweisen, Romeo&Juliet, Seimei, Chopin, Parisian walkways, Prince, Origin...these are so different not only in music style itself but also how it was performed and interpreted. I can understand that Let me entertain you is similar style like Prince and Heaven and Earth like Seimei. But Shoma has much more similar ones to Dancing on my own: Winter, Moonline sonata, Ladies in lavender, Turandot... The different ones were/ar only Tango and Great Spirit.

I feel consistency being rewarded is preventing the athletes from challenging themselves more

Idc what anyone says Zach Donohue is my man and he deserves a gold medal

Of course, Megan will choose Trusova because she is as muscular as she is. And in the end she's too biased towards Anna

Seimei, Parisienne Walkways, Ballade no. 1, Let's Go Crazy or many other programs are all iconic and memorable and will be continued to be watched by millions for many, many years.

I need to write a cover letter before watching this (this is the perfect motivation to get 'er done), but popping in here to say I am SO excited to watch this. Super cool that Meagan joined you!

Meagan is my favourite guest. I waited a whole week. She is great because she is so unfiltered and full of knowledge. I can’t wait to watch Worlds next week

GO JASON!!!!!!

A day early, this is a gift! Thank you Dave and Jonathan, can't wait to watch!!

Thanks for posting on Saturday! This gives me tiime to listen and prepare for CYALIVE tomorrow!

I love Meagan and hearing what she has to say, but the comments about the Korean girls "all looking like little replicas" rubbed me the wrong way..

I love when an athlete actually takes an interest in their sport, studies the ins and outs of it, and then is able to clearly articulate their thoughts to brings so much insight to us fans. There are more highlights in this video than I can even mention separately, but I've learned so much and I loved Meagan's take on everything. So honest, refreshing, and she tells it like it is

No mention of Yuma Kagiyama? That’s a big omission. I expect him to be anywhere from 3rd to 6th. If he skates a clean short and skates his lp like he did at NHK Trophy, then watch out. He is a dark horse for a bronze medal. The GOE he gets on his jumps is extremely high, and he has incredible skating skills, so even though his PCS probably won’t be as high as the others, it shouldn’t be that low.

My prediction for the men: 1. Nathan 2. Yuzuru 3. Mikhail 4. Shoma 5. Yuma 6. Vincent/Boyang/Jason

I love Meghan but she’s really challenging Ted Barton for the worst pronounciation of names hahahaha

Dave, you have blessed us early this time! Ig I will take an hour from studying ❤️

Total silence on Calalang/Johnson. Any insights? I hope there’s no break-up.

Wearing masks properly is such a basic, responsible thing to do. Please please voice it to ISU so they REINFORCE it. Thank you very much, Meagan! (P.S. I am from Japan and masks are logical.)

I love Meagan's comments about Tuktamysheva. I love that Tuk has longevity and that she's a mature young woman with power rather than a child who can only rotate because of being super thin. I know I'm watching this after Worlds. But Meagan is so great and real I wanted to hear her insight anyway

Why are people taking her remarks about Anna so personally? Given Danny g’s words about her eating habits last year, I do think there is cause for concern. Megan is very blunt and has always been like that, no need to attack her

It is getting more and more russophobic...so sad

A note on how to pronounce 'Sui' (as in Sui and Han) - don't try anything too funky if you can't get the tonality in a reliable way - just say "Sway" (there is a 'w' phoneme in there, but the s is an s, and not a 'sh') I hear you guys saying "schwee" and that's not accurate (chinese pinyin is not intuitive at all!)

Anna Shcherbakova 2021 World Champion... Eatery that Meagan☺

I can't even imagine how much stress Yuzu will be under this week, having to travel to Sweden of all places and face the risks of contracting Covid, which in his case may make him very seriously ill. About his programs, maybe Meagan can someday skate his programs like Parisienne Walkways, Chopin, Let's Go Crazy, Seimei, Hope & Legacy and Origin just with single jumps. If they are similar, you practice one and you can skate them all. I have a feeling they are actually alot more different and difficult than you might think.

43:30 but isn't that true of many skaters. Ashley used to have her jump passes in the same place too. Same with dance, there are some skaters who do the same stationery or couple spin in exactly the same positions. 46:00 Kolyada's FP this season is one of the best FPs I've ever seen; Nathan's SP Caravan (two seasons ago) and Rocketman FP (last season) are two of the best programmes I've ever seen. Jason's Sinnerman makes me want to nominate him for an Oscar. Shoma's SP ..... I've never been able to buy into Shoma, until this SP. Now it's "GO SHOMA!"

Bodyshaming is such a thing on this channel 💔

Meagan had absolutely nothing positive to say about Nathan other than that he's a good human being. She didn't even bother at least talking about his consistency. Without any prompting, she offered to talk about what bothers her about him then proceeded to spend her entire segment on him trashing him and his programs. After all the negativity and zero positivity, she says she has nothing against him, loves him, and that he's one of her favorites, lol. How can anyone take her seriously? And I enjoy Kolyada's program because of the beautiful music but how did that program try to "push" anything, say, when compared to Nathan's? Pls explain. Nathan's minimalistic program was a non-conventional type of program since it was more intellectual than emotional so it pushed the envelope in that sense and, at the very least, it really pushes the difficulty aspect of figure skating. Kolyada's did exactly what now in terms of pushing the sport? You must have all been writhing in pain when Nathan's "horse-shit"(according to you) long program that you all dislike so much won him the world championship. And it's so obvious how much you all love and favor Jason. You never have anything even slightly negative to say about him. Even when his jumping needs work for him to have any real chance in international competitions, it's something you just gloss right over as if they're unimportant or as if winning isn't exactly what competitions are all about.

That was unexpected! Now, I have 3 ( threeee) companies for climbing mount Ararat! Greetings from Turkey! 🇹🇷

If beijing olympics + covid restrictions allow fans to throw gifts on the ice, do you think the Pooh rain will happen? Or do you think xi jiping will ban Winnie the Poohs? (He already banned the movie)

"The Trinity" ! :D you are the best

I love Meghan's comments about the young Russian pairs. Mishina/Galliamov and Boikova/Kozlovskii are young, fresh, fun, and joyful in their skating. The girls are NOT Ksenia Stolbova. I love watching these these two young pairs with such youthful exuberance.

Any chance we might see Hanyu attempt the 4A? He had planned to last year, but it’s been a VERY different year this time. Would be spectacular...

I love it when Meagan comes around as a guest, she's keeping it real and honest. That's very rare in skating :) so thx, Meg, You're doing great. Would love to have like even a quarter of her energy level though. And commitment - the way she spoke about using the time off ice and real competition to work on yourself and improve ... pure grit and proffesionalism. Also, great insight and views on the sport, as someone from inside the locker room, very refreshing to see and hear. Especially because she doesn't shy away from stating an opinion. Well done, boys!

Thanks for this quality content

Thank you Meagan👍💓 WEAR MASK😷 NO BUTs🙏🏻 it’s NOT HARD just WEAR KEEP MASK ON! We treasure every ATHLETES’ lives❣️

Sign of mentally strong athlete is missing in warm up and nailing in program. I know it’s frustrating for you like it was with Zagitova (because yall root against Eteri girls no matter how you deny it) but mental strength and pulling it off always will be more impressive than somebody more talented failing.

I love hearing the thoughts of world-level skaters... hope to see a famous ice dancer break down the current dance field (not just the top tier) with you guys 😄

Kovaletsky and Galimanov, oh Meghan 😩

Evgeniy Semenenko, even he is unsure of himself yet, I wish him to keep up with pressure and fight for top 10 or even podium. He deserves it, hope he believes it too.

I think Meagan makes a good point about the limits of a person's potential. I think quads are great but its unfortunate that technical merits seems to just trump over artistic development and expression. Jason's programs are very beautiful, but without those quads he just is not given a better standing up against other skaters. Its unfortunate.

Ooooh late today! 02:12 in England ans I'm just about to go to bed! Grrrr!

Always worth mentioning - Zagitova IS the reigning World Champ. No outliers. With a little change and luck in career timing she could been podium for 2021 Worlds.

I am curious as to why Nam was chosen to represent Canada last year for the 2020 World's that never happened, given Meagan's logic as to why Keegan was chosen for this year, which makes sense. Anyone know what the reasoning was for choosing Nam over Keegan and Roman for 2020 World's? Really enjoyed this episode! Thanks!

It is known intrigue in men competition, but I think there is no doubts in ladies pedestal : 1st - Sherbakova ( with not ideal flutzes [not clear edge flip/lutz] still persistent with distinct spins and consistent component's quality. 2nd -Trusova, just base value of elements bits everyone (that have never happened to be executed clean at tournaments that mattered) and allows to make mistakes and still park at the silver medal position. 3rd place is Rika Kihira, her 4S and 3A should be rewarded.

Sui’s salchow maybe easier for others but could be a hard jump for her. I wonder if they would replace it with a double Axel instead.

This episode of this and that is really good. You guys had good discussion, great flow throughout and Meaghan is such an insightful guest. I got many insights from her experience as competitor. You must bring her back for world championship recap! I would love to see how much predictions and discussions come to reality and which one is wrong. The women skating is one that I could not predict and will be a wild card. Much of the top ladies are new to WC and they don't have much experience competing in this scale. While for the men we have seen how Nathan, Yuzuru, Shoma and everyone else competed against each other. I wish the judges and TP be more accurate in judging and let the best wins.

About Kostornaia not going to Mishin, I think there is a lot of politics behind the scenes and the truth is Aliona is too much of a product to be able to switch to a coach with a different training techniques and philosophy. Khrustalni has made all the choices for her, and it looks like neither her nor her parents are capable of understanding how to run her career. Her goal and likely last shot at medals is the Olympics. My guess is that her parents just pressured her to go with what seemed to them the safest bet. Additionally Rusfed currently backs eteri in all possible ways, so they may have put their weight behind the move. Kostornaia seems utterly miserable in a few shots and interviews I have seen after she left AofP. They even got her a dog, I think this is intended as emotional support.

I am so ready to watch some skating this week and let's hope nobody tests positive. Thanks for having Meagan on again, she is always a great guest.

i am sad to feel those coments against Eteri ...and did they imply that ANNa was under some kind of druggs when she won nationals? that is new .....sad! Well...those are all north american so i should expect they do not like Eteri....pure envy...

Remember when Florida told the IOC they could host the Olympics in 2021 if Tokyo falls through? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Love when you guys have Meagan on, it’s always a treat to get her insight!!! ❤️

My first reaction--- OH MEAGAN! THIS should be good. Love her! Thanks Dave!