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If you could change one moment in Olympic history, would you? If so, which would it be?
Note: This isn't a thread to discuss judging / wuzrobbed but rather if you had magical powers but could only use it to change one Olympic moment/result, including keeping skaters upright
Upon Mao's retirement, I started thinking (for the 29487th time) what a mixed blessing it is that she, like Michelle, never won OGM. As much as it breaks my heart that neither of them won at the Olympics when they very well could have, we likely wouldn't have gotten such long careers out of them had they won.
So I got to thinking: if you could go back in time and change Olympic history (and give someone an Olympic gold with the consequence that they would have likely retired afterwards) would you?
I probably wouldn't give either of them OGM in their first go, as their second olympic cycles were where they really came into their own as artists. I'm more emotionally attached to Mao (as much as I respect Michelle, I just wasn't old enough to appreciate her at the time), but even with her, I hesitate. If anything, I would probably give Mao a clean Sochi SP assuming that then her 8-triple FS would have won her gold, but this comes in exchange for never witnessing her Madame Butterfly (which is my favorite program of hers) two years later.
What about you guys? Or is there anyone other than Michelle or Mao that you would have used your powers on?
Note: This isn't a thread to discuss judging / wuzrobbed but rather if you had magical powers but could only use it to change one Olympic moment/result, including keeping skaters upright
Upon Mao's retirement, I started thinking (for the 29487th time) what a mixed blessing it is that she, like Michelle, never won OGM. As much as it breaks my heart that neither of them won at the Olympics when they very well could have, we likely wouldn't have gotten such long careers out of them had they won.
So I got to thinking: if you could go back in time and change Olympic history (and give someone an Olympic gold with the consequence that they would have likely retired afterwards) would you?
I probably wouldn't give either of them OGM in their first go, as their second olympic cycles were where they really came into their own as artists. I'm more emotionally attached to Mao (as much as I respect Michelle, I just wasn't old enough to appreciate her at the time), but even with her, I hesitate. If anything, I would probably give Mao a clean Sochi SP assuming that then her 8-triple FS would have won her gold, but this comes in exchange for never witnessing her Madame Butterfly (which is my favorite program of hers) two years later.
What about you guys? Or is there anyone other than Michelle or Mao that you would have used your powers on?
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