Inspired by... well what discussion could possibly inspire such a thread, take a guess. But I hope to discuss some strange Pairs or ID results before we get there, lol.
I'll start. I do not know how to judge Zhang and Zhang at 2006 Olympics - but they definitely shouldn't have been silver even if we say we should simply count the huge break in the program as non-existent and continue evaluating. The SP and LP performed by S/Z here are great, I actually think the throw 3S in the LP is perhaps the standard for a +5 throw 3S. Unfortunately, I think they made too many mistakes in their performances to take gold here, but the first half of the LP is something I love to rewatch.
On the contrary, as amazing as Sui and Han are... They should be bronze at Pyeongchang. Bland programs with mistakes in the LP. I think it should have been 1. S/M, 2. D/R, 3. S/H.
Daisuke Takahashi should have won Vancouver Olympics. Lysacek should be fourth. AT BEST.
SLC should have been Sarah Hughes, Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen, with Slutskaya fourth.
I think an argument can be made that Kaetlyn Osmond was the rightful Pyeongchang Silver medalist. Zagitova rightly won, but I think Medvedeva had a 3F+3T< in the LP, and had a generally bad program, worse skating skills, and overall jump quality, despite Osmond's mistake. I find her to be a better performer than Osmond, but her quality and programs were just worse (and I'm not even a fan of Osmond's programs).
ETA: last edits before I simply wait lol. 92 and 94 OWG judging makes NO sense.
1994 OWG was Stojko's. The podium for me was 1. Stojko 2. Candeloro 3. Urmanov, lol.
1992 OWG was also wrong. It was 1. Paul Wylie 2. Petr Barna 3. Viktor Petrenko.
I'll start. I do not know how to judge Zhang and Zhang at 2006 Olympics - but they definitely shouldn't have been silver even if we say we should simply count the huge break in the program as non-existent and continue evaluating. The SP and LP performed by S/Z here are great, I actually think the throw 3S in the LP is perhaps the standard for a +5 throw 3S. Unfortunately, I think they made too many mistakes in their performances to take gold here, but the first half of the LP is something I love to rewatch.
On the contrary, as amazing as Sui and Han are... They should be bronze at Pyeongchang. Bland programs with mistakes in the LP. I think it should have been 1. S/M, 2. D/R, 3. S/H.
Daisuke Takahashi should have won Vancouver Olympics. Lysacek should be fourth. AT BEST.
SLC should have been Sarah Hughes, Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen, with Slutskaya fourth.
I think an argument can be made that Kaetlyn Osmond was the rightful Pyeongchang Silver medalist. Zagitova rightly won, but I think Medvedeva had a 3F+3T< in the LP, and had a generally bad program, worse skating skills, and overall jump quality, despite Osmond's mistake. I find her to be a better performer than Osmond, but her quality and programs were just worse (and I'm not even a fan of Osmond's programs).
ETA: last edits before I simply wait lol. 92 and 94 OWG judging makes NO sense.
1994 OWG was Stojko's. The podium for me was 1. Stojko 2. Candeloro 3. Urmanov, lol.
1992 OWG was also wrong. It was 1. Paul Wylie 2. Petr Barna 3. Viktor Petrenko.