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- Dec 29, 2011
In CSG's defence, I found it particularly irksome in the WTT thread, when right after Hanyu skated his SP the Hanyu fans in there immediately erupted into "omg he must be sick/injured/omg he must be upset/someone must have said something to him right before he skated" and all manner of things. It did not seem to occur to any of those posters that Hanyu might simply have - gasp! - had a bad skate. There had to be some kind of excuse.
I'm far, far from liking it when people are getting overly worried and think everything has to be a super dramatic bad thing (and have said so several times in the FF too ), but I'd like to point out that it isn't always about finding "excuses". There was a lot of talk already before Yuzu even skated, and a lot of fans basically expected him to bomb, because he had his "I'm gonna mess stuff up" face on. And then a lot of people were already worried what might be wrong before he made any form of mistake on the ice... the fact that Yuzu was always pretty injury prone and a firm member of the "I'm not gonna tell anyone and I'm not gonna rest but thickheadidly samurai my way though this" with bascially 100% succession rate of making things worse doesn't help. I get being annoyed with the dramatizing and the mother hens, but it's often really just people being worried and not necessarily trying to make excuses for why he didn't win with a dozen new World Records.