If you could change one Olympic moment...
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Actually, I didn't have any particular favorite, although I certainly thought she skated very well.
By Sochi, I had grown very, very weary of the squabbling between the camps of favorites. For nearly two years running up to the Games, it could be difficult to have a rational critical discussion about ladies figure skating. I was sick of the whole thing, and I was thrilled that the Games delivered a gold medal that broke all their hearts. I mean I jumped up and down with joy.
So, every time we have a "wuzrobbed" tangent about Sochi, I am reminded of how happy I was in that moment.
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I would have loved to seen Sasha skate a clean LP in Torino. I think that Shizuka would have still won, though - because I think she would have gone for a 3/3 if she thought she needed it.
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I wish I could change 2.
Sasha Cohen's 2010 loss and the podium at Sochi.
I would have had it:
1. Carolina
2. Yuna
3. Gracie
4. Adelina
Sasha Cohen's 2010 loss and the podium at Sochi.
I would have had it:
1. Carolina
2. Yuna
3. Gracie
4. Adelina
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You mean changing the scoring in Sochi would have stopped her Achilles tendon from snapping? That's news to me.
In all likelihood, probably.
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I'd like to have seen Maxim get his chance in Sochi.
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Nice dream .... That was impossible, because Voronov was the first substitute. The Russian Fed had the right choice, they really wanted the team gold.
Look at how Maxim skated at team WCH..But if he had skated well in Euros 2014.. you have been chance to see him in Sochi
And what about Oda or Nagasu? (Daisuke went to Sochi instead of Oda, Wagner instead of Nagasu)
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Kimmie's choreography was quite good, more purposeful than a lot of what we see these days. She was just green. It was definitely a tragedy how Sasha threw that title away though. I feel like there was a lot more pressure in those days, people still had the mindset of "making a mistake means you lose". You seemingly had to be perfect and that got to her head. These days a mistake often doesn't mean anything in particular, the points can easily be made up elsewhere if you are as favored as someone like Sasha was for that event. Plus the ability to learn technique has become so much more refined now.
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I think Sasha was ill prepared for that competition - she had a lot of 'distractions' between Olympics and Worlds and simply was not training properly, she was going to skip it but her mother persuaded her to go - I wish she didn't
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I have to go back in my mind and agree with posters who would choose that Randy Gardner's injury would be healed and that he and Tai could've skated in 1980. Even though they were the defending World Champs, I still think Rodnina and Zaitsev would have still won, but Tai and Randy would have skated two sublime programs and won the silver medal.
Gracie before Adelina? With a fall? I like Gracie, don't get me wrong, but the top three were correct at Sochi. The only argument is over what the order should have been.
I don't think it's clear at all. Tara was over-marked on the second mark. She never should have received any 5.9s for that. She was even marked ahead of Lu Chen. The judges got caught up in the moment, unfortunately. Tara deserved first on tech but second (or third) on presentation. The second mark breaks a tie in the long program (if there is one) under 6.0, so Michelle wins.
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I honestly thought Adelina's skates were way too boring to be in the top 3, others were better than her to me with mistakes. I feel much differently about it than others, I am aware. I could actually see it being:
1. Carolina
2. Yuna
3. Mao (her long program was way underscored)
4. Gracie
5. Adelina
It's just how I felt watching it. Adelina's PCS should have been much less, and I felt Gracie was scored spot on. I became a Gracie fan through the olympics, her programs had a lot more detail in them than Adelina's, Lori and Marina did a good job with her that season because her programs were what she needed at the time and she seemed to enjoy them.
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I'm going to go outside of the box and say that I would change the IOC's choice to stagger the Summer and Winter Olympics. Mainly because I'd love to see what the outcomes would have been, but also I think Michelle could have competed in a 3rd Olympics if they had been in '96, '00 & '04 and would have got to go out on her own terms.
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Sashie
Notice my username, which I coined in 2010 actually. LOL It's a very simple one for me: Sasha skating a clean Romeo & Juliet at the '06 games.
The look on her face for the S.P. was confident, with an, "I know I can do this." look. Like so many people who commented on it, including the announcers, I noticed the look on her face going into the long was very worried.
I felt like i had the FLUE for about five days afterward.
Notice my username, which I coined in 2010 actually. LOL It's a very simple one for me: Sasha skating a clean Romeo & Juliet at the '06 games.
The look on her face for the S.P. was confident, with an, "I know I can do this." look. Like so many people who commented on it, including the announcers, I noticed the look on her face going into the long was very worried.
I felt like i had the FLUE for about five days afterward.
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