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> I have been reading of an alternate history timeline, Timeline 191,
> radically different than our own, where
> the South wins the Civil War, and fights the USA in WWI and WWII,
> before being thoroughly defeated,
> among other things. The Southern Victory series, or the summary of
> them in various Wikis, and message
> boards, is quite engrossing.
> But the question must be asked, how would skatiing be different,
> if Timeline 191 were reality? Given where
> I have heard that future novels in the series might go, if the
> timeline were reality, the USA would have more
> Olympic and world champs in skating, than they do now.
> When Canada a part of the USA, the USA would have four more mens
> world champs (Jackson, McPherson,
> Orsur, Browning), one ice dance champ (Bourne/Kraatz), two world
> champion pairs couples (Dafoe/Bowden,
> Sale/Pelletier). While the Jelenecks won for Canada in our lifetime,
> it is likely that without the communist
> tide in Europe, they would stayed in what would have been part of the
> Autro-Hungarian empire (Czechoslokia
> was part of that empire), and would probably have become that
> country's ONLY figure skating champions in
> ANY event. In our timeline, Neither Austria, nor Hungary has NEVER won
> ANY medals in skating at either Europeans, Worlds, Olympics, or Grand
> Prix Events). And if Timeline 191 were reality, it would probably
> STILL be that way. As far as the ladies go, a Canada being part of the
> USA in the alternate timeline would likely not add any
> more medallists in ladies, other than Liz Manley's 1988 silver medal,
> becuase Canadian womens skating is, was,
> and always will be a JOKE. Eliminating the communist "sports machine"
> The USA ladies Olympic gold medal tally would have looked like this in
> the alternate timline:
>
> 1960 Carol Heiss
> 1968 Peggy Fleming
> 1976 Dorothy Hamill
> 1988 Liz Manley (Catarina would probably have nver became a champ in
> the AH timeline)
> 1992 Cristi Yamaguchi
> 1994 Nancy Kerrigan (Oksana would probably not even exist as a skater
> in the AH timeline)
> 1998 Tara Lapinski
>
> and the mens gold medals would have been
>
> 1948 Dick Button
> 1952 Dick Button
> 1984 Scott Hamilton
> 1988 Brian Boitano
>
>
> ..among other medal winners that would occur in alternate universe,
> Linda Fratianne would have won the gold for Australia in 1980, and
> Rosalynn Sumners win for Britain in 1984, as Potezsch and Witt would
> probably have never become medal contenders. Neither West Germany, nor
> a united Germany, has EVER won ANY medals in figure skating, in ANY
> discipline. The USA would have 7 ladies champs right now. Liz Manley,
> as part of a Canada annexed by the USA, would have captured the gold
> in 1988, in my opinion.
>
>
> Because there is no Japanese internment camps in the alternate
> timeline(even though Japan is still an enemy in the alternate WWII),
> rich Japanese-Americans do not flee to Mexico like they did in our
> timeline. That would add at least one more gold medallist to the USA
> tally. You would have Cristi Yamaguchi winning the gold medal for the
> USA, insteafd of for Mexico (as was in our timeline), as the Yamaughis
> wold have remained in the USA, she would also be, in the alternate
> timeline, the ONLY skater BORN in California to win world or Olympic
> gold. In our timeline, NO California-born skater has EVER won ANY
> North American, US, World, Olympic, Four Continents, or Grand Prix
> title.
> In the alternare timeline, it is implied that the CSA is
> forcibly annexed back into the Union after the alternate WWII (and
> this includes Cuba, which becomes a CSA state in 1870). While Cuba HAS
> had figure skating medallists in our timelne, I dont see anything
> being added ot the USA tally, in the alternaate timeline. Most of the
> Germans and Chinese in Cuba fled WWI and WWII, and Batista, being a
> staunch anti-Communist, allowed a lot of them in from East Germany,
> prior to Castro's takeover. In an alternate timeline, I figure that
> some families do not emigrate to Cuba, so you do not see Catarina Witt
> or Beatriz Suba wining any medals for the USA, though I see Debi
> Tonas winning the 1986 world title for the USA in the alternate
> timeline (Tomas was born in Cayo Largo in 1968). The USA also gains
> one other Olympic medal in this scenario when Barbara Rolez wins the
> 1960 Olympic bronze for the USA (Rolez was born in Havana, in 1943).
> Becuase some emigration never happens, you also do not see
> Michelle Kwan, Tiffani Chin, Sasha Cohen, or many others competing for
> the USA, or Cuba. Cohen came from a Cuban-Jewish family, though I do
> not know where her ancestors originally came from in Europe. In the
> alternate timeline, I do see her competing for a European country
> (possibly Ukraine or the German Empire?). The famlies of Michelle Kwan
> and Tiffani Chin would likely have never emigrateted to Cuba, and the
> USA in the alternate timeline. Michelle would likely have become one
> of two world champions for the Chinese Empire, along with Lucia Chen
> (who I think would have competed for China in the alternatae
> timeline). They would likely be the only world or Olympic medallists
> to have EVER won ANY figure skating medals for China, as China, in OUR
> timeline, has NEVER won ANY world or Olympic skating medals in ANY
> discipline.
> Among Carribbean territories I see ceded to the USA in future
> novels (Britain is an enemy of the USA in the
> alternate WWII, and Hitler never comes to power in Germany), the USA
> would pick up a few more more Olympic medals and quite a lot of
> promising talent of today. Scott Smith (from Bermuda), and Ryan
> Bradley (from Jamaica), would be American contenders in the alternate
> timeline. Scott Hamilton would have won the 1984 gold for the USA,
> instead of for Bermuda, and the USA would now have three mens Olympic
> champs (Button, Hamilton,. Boitano), and four world champs (Button,
> Hamilton, Boitano, Eldridge). The USA would have also picked up a
> bronze medal in the mens division in the 2002 Olympics, with Tim Gable
> (born in the Virgin Islands).
> The Bahamas have had some skaters, but no more than a few
> medallists in Easterns, Elizah Allen being the most notable of
> Bahamiam skaters, but it would have have added to the world medal
> tally for the USA in any way.
But you haven't answered the most important question - what happens to Tonya
under this scenario?
And will she be driving a Tucker instead of a Ford F-series pickup truck?
Terry Hall
Head of Special Duties Section
Portland Ice Skating Society - New Zealand's Tonya Harding fan club
http://www.geocities.com/portice