- Joined
- Feb 14, 2018
Everyone - Carolina, Patrick, Javi, Misha, Tessa & Scott. It truly feels like an era in figure skating has ended.
Yeah, the seven people standing on the podium for the Team gold really were the dream team for Canadian figure skating (Chan, admittedly, past his prime, but still on a different level than anybody else we have at the moment). I'm optimistic about some of the people that look to be the main medal hopes for Beijing, but the benchmark set in Pyeongchang is so high it'll be very hard to reach it.Quite a few but what stands out is the whole Canadian contingent of retirees. When will we ever see a group like that again? It seemed like the Skate Gods sprinkled some magic medal dust over them at the Olympics! Now we're back to reality and new growth.
Well for men it is Javi Javi Javi. I hoped he would win silver and secretly hoped he would best Hanyu. Everyone loves Javier do we not??
I could see some disappointment on his face and even on Brians’s face. Brian really wanted these guys as one two and he knew from Shoma’ s debut Shoma was a force to be reckoned with. Maybe if Javier had a better season... hey Javi is twice beat Hanyu. It could have happened in Korea.
So I am very sad to see Javi retire with no Soi to grab him as they surely would have back in the day. That lucky crew of 90’s skater rich and famous.
Who leaving leaves a hole in your heart? Te amo mi Javi. Tu tienes mi corazon por siempre.
I may quit watching men's skating when Yuzuru Hanyu retires. I will miss seeing him at Worlds and hope to see him next season. I have never seen a skater who is so completely as one with his music as Yuzu is. No one else measures up to him in that regard.