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- Jan 12, 2014
The pairs medal ceremony is hilarious. And the podium is too small for the silver and bronze medalists.
So true, unfortunately.Completely agree. The top skaters are always overscored. However, man a lot of these men don't have a lot left to admire when the jumps go wrong....
Indeed! I got it going again, but I was at my at my parents house so I had to close my laptop and head home.It’s okay here. Hope you can get it on rerun.
Luck has nothing to do with that. Silver has potential for the GPF for the skaters who are unlikely to win gold. Brown sells tickets, because he had been around for many years and glides well. Semenenko doesn’t. Hence, Brown got silver.Be thankfull he got silver with that skate. One lucky dude.
Luck has a TON to do with it.Luck has nothing to do with that. Silver has potential for the GPF for the skaters who are unlikely to win gold. Brown sells tickets, because he had been around for many years and glides well. Semenenko doesn’t. Hence, Brown got silver.
Not even sure if that is the main rivalry now, Vincent and Shoma looked pretty good last week. If Yuzuru skates like at World 2021, they would have beaten him.Then once it was clearly locked up took a few more risks. Not loving the programs this year, though his main competitor is Hanyu who is king of uninspired recycled programs, so I am not sure it matters. Not sure any of the mens programs have me interested this year.
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Not really feeling Jason's Schindler's List. IDK.... just get nothing from it. Pale imitation of Joshua Farris's from years back.
Meh. One good(ish) skate by Shoma and one great skate by Vincent does not a rivalry make.Not even sure if that is the main rivalry now, Vincent and Shoma looked pretty good last week. If Yuzuru skates like at World 2021, they would have beaten him.
Glad someone else remembers Joshua! I actually prefer Slaughter on 10th Ave for Jason, but I understand it's a minority view, SL is more meaningful to him and goes down better with judges and audience.
Another minority view: Jason's PCS stands out now among the current batch of competitors, but comparing apples to apples I wouldn't say he's the best ever. To me he's one of a group of great artistic skaters (including Chan, Buttle, Takahashi etc., and if Farris and Ten had not had their careers tragically truncated, they would have cemented their place in this pantheon). Not to say that Jason isn't unique, rather everyone in this group is one-of-a-kind. Basically, I will miss him when he retires, but artists appear in every generation and I'm looking forward to seeing who will step up to fill his shoes next quadrennial.
I meant vs Semenenko. This specific choice was very deliberate, because it could have gone either way. It was not a random play of numbers. Brown literally only jumped triples and doubles.Luck has a TON to do with it.
In ANY field that wasn't a giant mess Jason wouldn't have gotten a wiff of a medal with that skate.
He's damn lucky he stayed this long to see this lousy era of the men's.Luck has nothing to do with that. Silver has potential for the GPF for the skaters who are unlikely to win gold. Brown sells tickets, because he had been around for many years and glides well. Semenenko doesn’t. Hence, Brown got silver.
Look, all respect to his talent and competitive steel, but it always looks to me he only remembers he has a program during his stsq. I guess it's a sticky spot when you honestly need that many quads to win it all.
Of course it does. With two failed jumps he earned silver, because the rest failed to do their work. How often do you see that?Luck has nothing to do with that. Silver has potential for the GPF for the skaters who are unlikely to win gold. Brown sells tickets, because he had been around for many years and glides well. Semenenko doesn’t. Hence, Brown got silver.