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You always make the funniest speculative statements.
they don't I will be shocked if P/B gets an medal in Olympics
they are like K/S now, they have been dropped their PCS were also low too
You always make the funniest speculative statements.
they don't I will be shocked if P/B gets an medal in Olympics
they are like K/S now, they have been dropped their PCS were also low too
They aren't being dropped. They didn't skate up to their usual abilities because he had been injured. If they had skated like they did earlier in the season they would have came in 3rd or 4th.
I agree this year that P&B werent dropped, they simply got injured at the wrong time. However next year they will be dropped, or more accurately perhaps they wont be regaining their former place. The 3 younger teams who beat them at Worlds this year will stay ahead of them, B&S with Olympics on home ice will get a huge push and be the ones to beat for the bronze going into the season, but C&L and W&P are going to push hard to improve and have a shot at it as well. P&B will finish around what they did in Vancouver 6th or 7th.
I am ready to bet with you that your predictions won't come true
Go ahead. When people make those bets with me I always end up right. I will happily bookmark this thread and bring it back up a year from now, like I often do in other threads, and in none of them thus far am I the one who has egg on my face (while the other party usually has mysteriously dissapeared from the boards, hopefully you wont follow that route when you end up wrong). Do you actually think P&B will be on the podium in Sochi, LOL! Even if I end up slightly wrong on 6th or 7th, they wont be 3rd, I guarantee that much. I actually like them and strongly dislike B&S but am not blind to reality.
I am not saying they will medal, but I thik they will end up in the top 5, that is where if healthy belong.
Exactly. One bad skate, especially after such an injury, doesn't make a trend. Sometimes I find some statements here quite hilarious, how quickly the fans change their mind. A year exactly ago, I remrmbr that I/K were crowned the number one team in Russia , as B/S were finishing 8th, 3 spots behind I/K. Now look how that worked out!
Well ì think they could be top 5, so I guess if they finish 4th or 5th neither of us will be wrong. I guess you think they still have a shot at 3rd though and could be anywhere from 3rd to 5th, and I think they could be anywhere from 4th to 7th, and more likely will be 5th or lower though. We will see what happens. Like I said I like them, but I dont see them pulling all the way back over all the younger teams who placed over them at Worlds and who will have great momentum in various ways:
-Bobrova & Soloviev: Olympics on home ice, and even before Worlds were starting to match and sometimes beat P&B in PCS.
-Capellini & Lanotte: Obviously just been getting better every year for awhile, and the wuzrobbed cries around them will be heard by judges.
-Weaver & Poje: Came to Worlds with even less preperation and quite a bit more injured than P&B and came from well back after the SD to outskate them and beat them. Many experts thought they were already a better team than P&B as early as early 2012, when some were upset they didnt beat P&B at the big events to end the season (and I am talking more European experts than Canadian btw)
-Chock & Bates: finished directly behind P&B at Worlds this year, beat them in the FD, and are a very new team who is getting better at a fast rate.
I think for their Sochi chances competing at these Worlds if they werent fully prepared (as it seems they werent) was a bad idea, but by not going they could have lost some ground too, so it was a tough choice.
Argh. I have to get used to posting on here.
Longtime lurker, but had to say congrats to Meryl and Charlie! My favorite dance team.
They aren't being dropped. They didn't skate up to their usual abilities because he had been injured. If they had skated like they did earlier in the season they would have came in 3rd or 4th.
Go ahead. When people make those bets with me I always end up right. I will happily bookmark this thread and bring it back up a year from now, like I often do in other threads...
Did you bookmark the thread a year or so ago where you predicted that Julia Lipnitskia would win 2014 Olympics, 2018 Olympics, and everything in between?