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- Nov 13, 2012
Well...they got 2nd. Sui and Han were just too good.
I have to say I'm utterly deflated...I was so hopeful! Now all their detractors will gloat about how T/M were never going to win and how boring they are. I really hope T/M are happy with how they skated and they're not sobbing like me.
I had such an awful feeling this would happen when I saw Sui and Han were skating last...
Please excuse this morose post, I'm not well today and I feel like I shouldn't have watched, I was not prepared for this after how well Zhenya and Vova did.
You're not the only one feeling this way. I had spent weeks preparing myself that they were slated for third. J/C had all of the momentum and with S/H back... After last night, I thought it might be possible... At the beginning of the season, I was iffy on GPF, but I thought they'd win Euros and Worlds. Silver, both times. Tonight is one placement higher than I'd been expecting since Euros/4CC, but, like you said, there's just something deflating about this. I'm a pessimist by nature, and as annoying as detractors are among skating fans, I worry more that it's somehow not going to be good enough for the Rusfed and talking heads in the press who will want to send them to Siberia in favor of one of 27 baby pairs and/or Stolbova and her new partner.
I only caught the very end of the awards ceremony and they seemed fine though.
T/M have all the goods to be world champion--Olympic Champions. It just feels like it's being harder for them than it should be.