You cannot predict what's going to happen in figure skating. No one expected Mishina/Galliamov to win Worlds in 2021 -- despite having great programs under new coach, Moskvina. They had been sick and hadn't performed well at Russian Nationals, so they were fortunate to make the team. Anything can happen, including many skaters not skating clean programs.I'm well aware of scores varying form compeition to competion, doesn't change a fact that apart from K/F no one had two clean programs. I watch Figure Skating for about 12 years, no need to tell me how comeptitions look. And the comment about my "hope is rather silly" is totally of out order. Yeah, stupid me, hoping that top 3 will have better than 60 TES points in Free, because that obviously never happens Maybe you should stop treating me as a person who doesn't know anything.... And of course stupid me not knowing that scores are messy. I really needed the reminder, because obviosuly this is the first time I watch FS and I don't know anything!
Since you are an 11-year veteran of watching figure skating, surely you realize that not everyone who skates both programs cleanly even gets on the podium. And sometimes podium medalists at both Worlds and Olympics don't skate two clean programs. You seem fixated on the numbers. It's not about the numbers alone, it's more about skaters performing the best they can and achieving personal goals.
You seem awfully worried about pairs skaters receiving better than 60 TES points in free skates. Maybe you should reflect a bit on some of the more serious things going on in the world. In particular, the Ukrainian people who are worried about life and limb and the future of their country. Ironically, Russian athletes were banned from competing at this year's Worlds, not because of their government's doping practices, but because of their leader's unwarranted aggression against an independent nation. It's not fair for those athletes, but there's no way that such aggression can be allowed to happen, without a response.
Every Russian citizen, athlete or not has to realize (just as do fans of Russian skaters) that nothing can continue 'business as usual' under these circumstances. Sports do not trump responding to an unnecessary war that is irrevocably altering the lives of so many people.
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