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Not a question of luck with Nathan, he picked this as his second event.My dream would be Chen gold, Jin silver and Vasiljevs bronze. That’s the dream but who knows what will actually happen. If he’s clean I think Chen will take gold easily, but him and Honda are so unlucky to have the first and last event. Yeah more training time but you’ve got to have nerves of steel.
Chafik hasn't competed at all this season, though he's been listed for at least two other competitions including the Master's de Patinage and withdrawn late from both, and there were even some reports last season that he didn't even want to do this Olympics. I'm a bit worried about him. If he's having injury troubles again that's one thing, but if he wants to retire and isn't being allowed to, and it's leading to shenanigans instead, that's no good for anyone.
Not a question of luck with Nathan, he picked this as his second event.
The results of Rostelecom, between Keegan and Mikhail's poor showings and Yuzuru's injury, make for some very interesting calculations here. Nathan just needs a fourth-place finish to assure himself of a spot, and realistically he's favoured to win. Alexander Samarin could also make it into the Final, bumping Junhwan down to first alternate, if he takes silver.
However, with Yuzuru's viability for the Final an open question, this makes the first alternate spot all the more important. Keegan has it currently, but both Jin Boyang and Dmitri Aliev could take it from him with a silver medal and a certain score (266.42 for Aliev, 258.65 for Jin).
Ugh, I hope he's OK! Why are they so hung up on Chafik staying on. There's quite a few promising French skaters including Kevin and Adam. Romain's improving.
1) As of last season he was still their most reliable quad jumper.
2) DG's a controlling bully.
Good luck to Kevin and Romain here though, hope they do well on home soil!
If Yuzu withdraws and Samarin wins silver, assuming Nathan wins gold, that only helps Junhwan:
NATHAN 30
SHOMA 30
BREZINA 26
VORONOV 24
SAMARIN 22
CHA 22
Aren't you forgetting Samarin? In that scenario, what if he won bronze---he'd also be part of the tiebreaker, and he'd only need 237.15 points, 11.63 less than he scored in his first event. Or if he won gold---he'd be in, Nathan would be in, Cha would be in, and there would be no room for the tiebreaker anyway.
BTW, Nathan would still make the final if he finished 5th.
Not a question of luck with Nathan, he picked this as his second event.