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It is clear why he is stating this as the ideal victory- because it leaves no room for doubt or 'ambiguity' as he puts it, not for the sake of gloating over an obliterated competition.
Obviously he wants it to be such that it cannot be attributed to sheer luck, and no doubts can be cast by wondering if this or that disaster had not happened during skater X's skate, or if this or that had been scored correctly someone else would have won (an example of the latter is what is often said about Alina's win over Evgenia at the Olympics. Compare this to Trusova's current win, which, despite debates about PCS, she would still have won because of the margin), which may or may not be true.
That is why he thinks both the gap and the clean skates of competitors are necessary.
And also why he thinks the 2015 GPF is the closest he has gotten, despite, as he himself said, his runner ups not being totally clean in both SP and LP.
As to the scores, which, as others have pointed out before, he is often made to analyze not only his performance, but also his protocols in interviews, and he does so quite frankly. There is nothing wrong with pointing out if there is something here or there that he disagrees with- why must he keep it to himself just because he wins alot? If you disagree with his assessment, that is fair enough, but calling it 'griping' is another thing.
Lastly, the comparison made to comments people make on forums is not to accuse commenters of being unsportsmanlike in the same way skaters, when they are just onlookers.
It is to point out that there will always be schools of thought which, validly or otherwise, will cast doubt on a skater's win over another.
The aim here is not to humiliate anybody.
Besides which there is no reason why any skater should be 'humiliated' by a large margin of victory if they indeed skated their best. It obviously just means whoever came in first did something out of the ordinary.
Obviously he wants it to be such that it cannot be attributed to sheer luck, and no doubts can be cast by wondering if this or that disaster had not happened during skater X's skate, or if this or that had been scored correctly someone else would have won (an example of the latter is what is often said about Alina's win over Evgenia at the Olympics. Compare this to Trusova's current win, which, despite debates about PCS, she would still have won because of the margin), which may or may not be true.
That is why he thinks both the gap and the clean skates of competitors are necessary.
And also why he thinks the 2015 GPF is the closest he has gotten, despite, as he himself said, his runner ups not being totally clean in both SP and LP.
As to the scores, which, as others have pointed out before, he is often made to analyze not only his performance, but also his protocols in interviews, and he does so quite frankly. There is nothing wrong with pointing out if there is something here or there that he disagrees with- why must he keep it to himself just because he wins alot? If you disagree with his assessment, that is fair enough, but calling it 'griping' is another thing.
Lastly, the comparison made to comments people make on forums is not to accuse commenters of being unsportsmanlike in the same way skaters, when they are just onlookers.
It is to point out that there will always be schools of thought which, validly or otherwise, will cast doubt on a skater's win over another.
The aim here is not to humiliate anybody.
Besides which there is no reason why any skater should be 'humiliated' by a large margin of victory if they indeed skated their best. It obviously just means whoever came in first did something out of the ordinary.