- Joined
- Oct 22, 2005
It's not going to be your choice anyway. If USFS treats things as they have the last 2 Olympics, they will *ASK* Nathan his preference first and if he chooses to split, that will be 1, then they will *ASK* whoever wins Dance this week (and both teams already said they would split), that will be 2 and there will be no more team split. As for Ladies, Alyssa Liu holds the highest SP and LP score this season for US ladies in international comps. Mariah Bell is *NOT* a better choice for the LP, as much as I love her skating as her 3/3 has disappeared (this is pending what happens this week, of course). Pairs is a crap shoot no matter what the US chooses, so...Skating 4 programs over the course of a week, and never more than 1 in a single day, is absolutely not more difficult than what athletes in other sports do at the Olympics. That's already far less than what the skaters already do in training!! Time to get real. This notion that it's too difficult is full absurdity.
Not to mention, there are competitors who already HAVE done this, and performed very well. Everyone in skating would do it if there were 2 individual medals on the line and if it was required to compete a SP + LP in the 1st event to qualify to the more prestigious event afterward. It's simply not become the norm yet. The team event needs to be treated more seriously.