If Patrick is having a nightmare about Sochi, I'm terribly sorry. The PCS inflation with Hanyu is completely beyond me. I cannot believe his skating has improved that much during the season. He still goes through most of the transitions looking like a daddy long leg, as if he didn't have any core muscles around his backbone. Hanyu is determined to master other quads. He seems to be only concerned about jumps. I wish he would learn to skate like Patrick. I think Hanyu is overrated. I missed Patrick at Saitama.Patrick Chan is the biggest hole in my heart. I heard he is still having nightmare about Sochi. I was rooting for him to win in Sochi because...he is at his peak, he is all-rounded and he isn't getting younger. Hanyu is still young and he is not yet a complete skater yet so I hope next time for him. Side notes: it's true that PCS has become a joke now, I don't understand the inflations anymore.
Patrick Chan is the biggest hole in my heart. I heard he is still having nightmare about Sochi. I was rooting for him to win in Sochi because...he is at his peak, he is all-rounded and he isn't getting younger. Hanyu is still young and he is not yet a complete skater yet so I hope next time for him. Then it turned out THAT way. Meh, Sochi is a complete nightmare. I don't know what or whom should we shut put the blame on. The team event that happened right away individual events? Or the judging (well it's hard to blame the judging in men event because our men were so horrendous that day). I hope they put some limits to the number of quads and jumps each program though.
Compare to Sochi, worlds this year, which happened after a month has just showed us tremendous effort from the skaters. I am so happy for them, regretful for some, though.
Side notes: it's true that PCS has become a joke now, I don't understand the inflations anymore.
Even the fans have nightmares about Sochi, so it's not only P.chan. I think even Hanyu still has nightmare about that time. When he came out in worlds for His SP, he looked like he was about to faint. anyways it's their faults that they fell, can't blame anyone.If Patrick is having a nightmare about Sochi, I'm terribly sorry. The PCS inflation with Hanyu is completely beyond me. I cannot believe his skating has improved that much during the season. He still goes through most of the transitions looking like a daddy long leg, as if he didn't have any core muscles around his backbone. Hanyu is determined to master other quads. He seems to be only concerned about jumps. I wish he would learn to skate like Patrick. I think Hanyu is overrated. I missed Patrick at Saitama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beOeHFJ1ci0
Machida: Congrats! (hug) I lost!!
Yuzuru: But it was super close!! Let's get on the podium together, like this! (small jump)
Machida: I'm regrettable, but thank you.
Yuzuru: But you pulled both programs together, didn't you? I didn't!
Machida: Well, but we had a great fight.
Yuzuru: I had fun, thank you very much.
Press conference
Yuzuru: Actually I am better being a chaser in FP, I was nervous but I had a good feeling toward FP. This program (R&J) is filled with many difficult elements and I also have had hard time to land two different kinds of quad through past two seasons. I am very happy to land them finally in the last competition of this season. I was glad, I gave it all, that's all I feel.
Machida: I am happy with the sense of accomplishment. I had been very encouraged by success of Hanyu-senshu this season and hoping that I wanted to keep going strong like him. I had been trying chasing his back and I am here in this position. It was very close to win but I will try to go forward together with him and to be a good rival of him in the next season.
As far as Yuzuru hasn't stated anything about his injury officially (apparently he was in pain though), the news came from only one article and the commentator in the Japanese broadcasting. Hope we'll have more info.
Congratulations to all the medalists :yay:
:thumbsup:
Seriously, what is people's problem? Last year we had a skater who fell twice, had a major step out on another jump and popped a fourth jump who still won because of a lead in the short program.
This year we have a skater who manage to not fall AT ALL, save for a few close landings and now we're complaining he wasn't clean enough.
I'm going to stand up for him because I remember seeing him in 2012 in the FS where he was an ABSOLUTE mess -- fell three times and completely botched his step sequence and spin. It was obviously that back then he couldn't handle the challenging programs but yet Orser was willing to work with him to increase his stamina and look at him now--he stood up for the entire program DESPITE INJURY.
Geez people. Yuzuru should be getting praise for his effort not disdain. He doesn't deserve this vitriol.
I look back at older skates like Dai Takahashi's Blues for Klooks and in the garden of souls, and look at this years, and everything seems rather uninspired in comparison.
IMHO, Jeremy's scores should have been much higher, but the judges don't value Jeremy's worth because of his past record under pressure (and probably they were leaving room, but no excuse for not giving Jeremy better tech and PCS points). Javi Fernandez in NO WAY deserves higher PCS scores than Jeremy Abbott!!! Absolutely glaring problem with the scoring system, the way the judges throw out undeserved PCS when skaters do the technical tricks.
Joshua Farris has asthma too. I don't see him using it as an excuse every time he doesn't perform well. Nor do his fans - I certainly don't.
Joshua also has a life-threatening allergy to dairy. He doesn't use it as an excuse. Nor do his fans. On two occasions only has it directly affected his performance. But he did not offer it as an excuse...his coach had to reveal it later.
Joshua also once skated with a broken leg. He broke it on the third jumping pass of a long program and finished the program, spins, steps and jumps all.
I just feel like Hanyu's fans really really overblow his health issues. LOTS of people have asthma. Hanyu's not the only skater in the world with asthma, and he's certainly not the only skater in the world who's skated through injuries.
:agree: I second that!Here's something I LOVED about the men's competition this year: The friendly rivalry between the final men was great to see. They each really wanted the top spot but they all respected one another and seemed to really enjoy just being there together.
Hanyu motioned the crowed to be quiet so Fernandez could warm up.
Fernandez and Hanyu clapping to each other over the TV.
Machida thanking Hanyu for a great competition.
Group hug before going out for the medal ceremony.
-And just to show that they really do have a rivalry going on and haven't gone 'soft' Machida vows to CRUSH Hanyu next year.
Congrats to all the medallists and congrats to Kovtun for dragging his butt out of 17th place and into the top 5!
But his fans know that asthma is only partly an issue and that the main reason he lacked in stamina is because he used to have very little time for practice and didn't do any off-ice training. .
I've heard he had some serious asthma attacks when moved to Canada, maybe because of allergy or something, I don't know about this condition. The last season is totally horrendous for him. He always look like he need oxy tank after the free skate. But it seems he has improved his health and stamina this season. Even at the beginning of this season, he looked so tedious. That's why I didn't believe that he could pull through the free skate in WC. Big improvement for him. I hope his health will get better next season.I am a fan who disagrees with this explanation about Yuzuru's stamina.
Last year, after Yuzu moved to Canada and his new team increased his on ice training and introduced off ice trainig consistently , he collapsed on the ice at Finland Throphy at the very beginning of the season , remained in a miserable physical condition and heavily underweight like a zombie throughout the season and collapsed on the ice at London Worlds, after a terrible scream that many fans didn’t forget. In that period rumors about his retirement in 2014 started on this forum.