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I don`t see an indiivdual medal for Plushy but a team medal is a real possibility. And Vornovv is really not a consistent skater. Like Gachinski after hm he was once thought the heir apparent to Plushy but it didn`t materialize.
Lets see how test skate goes before making quick call.
Don´t forget. with Voronovs desastrous performance at 2012 Worlds (17th) begun the problems for Russia. They should send Plushenko. But I don´t see a medal for him.
Do you know if we are, indeed, going to see how the test skate goes? Or will it be held without cameras allowed?
What I've seen today in the arena, and in the Russian National on the youtube, none of the Russian male skaters has any real chance to be in top 5 at the Olympics, only if some "miracle" happens in the Russian ice in SOchi.
So, the main consideration has to be the Team Event, how to make the best deal for that for Russian as long as the whole book of rules was created to try to provide a Russian Gold.
What will happen: they will enter Plushenko to Sochi ONLY because he can score well in the Short Programme in the team event and than he will be -unfortunately- injuried or unwell before the long Programme (almost already announced by him after the Russsian National) and give it to the "substitute, who is able to have a good and clean Long Programme. This one seems to me Menshov after today. But than, they HAVE to enter Menshov to the Individual competition because of the rules.
Or they will change the rules in favour of the Russian Federation, like they did it before (not having anymore 2 men, 2 ladies, 1 pair, 1 dance, but 1 in each discipline to make Russian chances better...)
Plushenko's "body of work" is unmatchable... it's his body that's falling to pieces.
Well, it's a nailbiter, a lose-lose situation.
Brian cannot retire this year. That's too much eye protein going to waste. Like what he's done with Morozov. They should have begun their collaboration earlier in the season.
I never said that Kovtun should have got TES higher than the other two Russian guys. He doubled two jumps, had some cheats, didn't do a three jump combination and he has paid the price for all that with lower base value.
But PCS is something completely different. How jumps are executed or not should have no bearing whatsoever on how PCS are scored (unless those mistakes disrupt the flow of the program - Kovtun had no bad falls or messy step outs which would). There are no jumps or other technical elements mentioned in the PCS criteria. Those are two separate marks.
A skater can fall 5 times and just give up and 'walk through the program' and then this obviously should impact the PCS.
But a skater can fall 5 times and still continue to present their program well, maintain speed and so on and so forth (check Popova's FS for example) and then the only thing you can legitimately deduct on the PCS is the lack of flow due to the falls and possibly even not that if that skater gets up very quickly and gets back into the program straight away.
Kovtun doubled two jumps at the start but then he went on for everything else and skated the whole program with good speed and attack.
the Russian boys..Kovtun's program is absent once he abandons jumps, I read here but no, no energy, going through hand movements a la tarasova, while he is young and needs more light choreo, he was like in morning practice, I swear I did not jinx him, I applauded even, but he was lost!!