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- Dec 7, 2022
Psquare are Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier. For some reason, we have always tended to call this partnership by their first names. I don't know why, but my guess is that it dates back to the days when Piper and her twin sister Alexe were competing in the same category. If somebody said "Gilles", you wouldn't be sure which sister it was. But if somebody said "Piper", you would, because it is such a distinctive name.
And when Piper partnered up with Paul, because their first names both start with "P", they became P Squared.
By the way, there is a guy that I went to school with, and his nickname was "Boom Boom". And over time, it became "Boom Squared".
I thought the same! It was only when somebody else commented that the penny had finally dropped for them that I started thinking and realised what it really meant.
Which reminds me, have you eaten your boyfriend instead of your breakfast lately?
With the number of skaters that I refer to as being "my kid", I'm surprised nobody has made that mistake with me. But I do remember not so long ago somebody believed @moonvine really was engaged to Jimmy Ma...
I nearly died when the mother of one of the Cypriot skaters I have adopted told me that the whole team read what I write about them.
And that is a lesson to us all. Be nice, because the person you are writing about is probably reading.
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I would think it's quite unlikely people are reading what we write here. I would assume that if anything most athletes only read instagram, "x" and such. But even if they are I think athletes need to be able to deal with certain criticism and I think they usually are. Unless they are actual children or young teenagers. This is a good reason for the raise of the age limit. And of course some kinds of "criticism" should not
be accepted (body shaming, vulgarities etc.). But comparing skaters, pointing out their sportive weaknesses etc. should be okay. After all this is competitive sport. If you don't want to read that (which I wouldn't either) just don't read social media about yourself.
sometimes and err on the side of kindness). So I'm glad for both of your comments. There's much more we could discuss on this topic, but this is all getting a bit OT so I'll stop there.
I have an inkling there will be a surprise medallist, just can't figure out if it's gonna be Nik Memola, Vladimir Litvintsev, or Nika Egadze.
). I'm not an expert of course I just go by what I see in frame by frame slow motion. Gubanova would have been the only realistic threat assuming Loena made errors. 
