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os168 said:And welll.... What a funny latest statement from Hanyu to imply he only maxed out 50% ability in this free skate and no more than 80% this season so far. It kind of suggest I was right more than I am not? I am not sure why he said what he said. By admitting this, he admit he wasn't best today (so how does that justify the high PCS, GOE etc? Should that knock 50% marks off? Judges overmarked him by 49% at least? lol... how do the fans respond to that now? ). Poor Daisuke ... your 100% best just got knocked by 50% best from Hanyu because you are no longer as well liked. Hmm.... yeah it stinks!! If he didn't look so ill, I'd be even tough on him today. Hope he improves at worlds, he seriously need to turn up the fire to justify these scores. Otherwise I'd hate to lump him into the exclusive group of over marked Japanese skaters with strong federation support.
Oh boy, what a useless way to ill-conditionedly overinterpretate something that a young boy said. Of course, "I only managed 50% today!" completly equals "I should have gotten just 50% of the marks I got" :sarcasm:
Maybe he just wanted to say that he wasn't satisfied with what he did today, and that he still feels he can do better overall. Not that he deliberatly didn't give his best or whatever you want to think. So what? Do you think Daisuke was at 100% when he won the GPF? Very likely not, and he still deserved that win (while there are poeple who thought Yuzuru should have won that). It was easy to see Hanyu wasn't completly at his best here. And he didn't win the free. If you look at the SP - Hanyu was at his best, Daisuke wasn't at his.
So Yuzuru should be marked down in over half of the components and overall marks just because you don't like his interpretation of the last 20sec or soemthing? Sorry, no agreement here at all.
I can certainly see some good points why Daisuke could/should have won this competition, but your reasons are half-convincing at best. And whatever problems you have with the COP overall, that's not Hanyus problem here too. So if you want to lumb him in whatever group you want too - have a lot of fun doing so. Because it makes perfectly sense that the JSF already backs up Hanyu more than they ever did back up Daisuke. I guess WTT is one of the perfect proofs for that.