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- Jul 26, 2003
Just reading the last few posts of this thread, I find Matt K's comments about the Shibs to be funny because it was quite similar to what people were writing about them four years ago. "They seem content with only getting top ten results at Worlds and won't ever challenge for medals"/"they have to leave Marina!" v. now "they seem quite content with only being medal contenders and don't want to challenge for the gold"/"they have to leave Marina!" but now with the added ridiculousness of them never letting go of "Coldplay". They obviously chose Coldplay for the Olympic season because they knew their audiences were going to be broader at the Olympics and they wanted to skate to something they felt personally strong about and wanted a vehicle where the audiences saw Maia and Alex and could connect with them on a personal level. It seems to have worked in a big way as they are one of the most talked about Olympians. I don't know what the future holds for the Shibs, but I do know they played the game very well this season and always seem to exceed expectations...which is what Alex wrote about on Twitter days ago.