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    Figure Skating

    in 2018 Winter Olympics [Read-Only]

    Since gold and silver seems pretty locked up between Papadakis/Cizeron and Virtue/Moir in whatever order, I’m most excited for the competition for bronze. I really enjoy watching both the Shibs and Hubbell/Donohue. On a purely personal or emotional level, I’d like to see the Shibs on that podium at the end. But if H/D skate to their full potential, it would be nice to see them medal. I enjoy how different they are as performers.

    I know it’s kind of silly, but I only hope the judging politics don’t taint the medal-winning performances—whichever ones they end up being.

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    Upon rewatching large chunks of the men’s free skate (I just had to skip the guys who really tanked it), I am so impressed with the level of talent in this field as compared to what it was in Sochi. Maybe it’s recency bias, I don’t know. 

    This also gave me a chance to watch Nathan’s program with more scrutiny, and the knocks against him in the PCS dept. are totally fair. Outside of the step and choreo sequences, there wasn’t a whole lot there to call high quality artistry. If he competes at Worlds next month, and I hope he (and Vincent and Adam), will, I would like to see some more personality between the insane jumps. We know he’s more than capable of it because he does it in the SP pretty well.

    Upon re-watching the 3rd group, I would have placed Kolyada below Adam. In that instance, I would have liked to see cleanliness and near-perfection placed higher than difficult but messy. I think that’s my only quibble with the scoring. Also? It’s bananas that a 10th place score in this event would have won in the 2010 Games.

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    Th closeness of the scores between Bobrova/Soloviev and the Shibs in the team event, particularly in the PCS, has me concerned. If the judges find a way to put B/S ahead of whichever US team is highest ranked in the competition, I’ll be miffed. 

    And watching NBC’s morning show just now, they showed Nathan Chen’s parents off to the side while Nathan’s being interviewed—what sorcery is happening there?! They do not look like people old enough to have an 18 year old kid! 

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    1 minute ago, blackwing said:

    Good for Nathan Chen, he did fantastic.  For the next four years I bet commentators will be saying "if only, what might have been" every time he skates.  

    Just like Lillehammer, what's the name of the girl who went right after Tonya and the broken lace?  She completely biffed and the commentators all blamed Tonya, they said that this girl was ready to go and her concentration was completely broken by the delay and it obviously affected her.  Whatever.  If she was mentally focused it wouldn't have affected her.  But for years, every time this girl took the ice the commentators would invariably say the same exact thing, "she skated after Tonya Harding in Lillehammer and was delayed, oh what might have been".

    I feel like the same is going to dog Nathan Chen until the next Olympics.  "If only he hadn't gone after Hanyu and hadn't been delayed by all the stuffed animals, le sigh."

    Josie Chuinard! Oh, that magneta and orange outfit with the inexplicable matching gloves...

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    Uno’s was my fave performance of the medal winners. His absolute commitment to the music and ability to fill out the ice is wonderful to watch. 

    I wonder if Hanyu is even considering retirement yet? He’s still young-ish, though will really be pushing it—for an elite male singles skater— by the time the Beijing Olympics roll around. Particularly if the technical content demands remain at their current level for men who want to medal in singles. 

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    3 minutes ago, Paws said:

    Does Patrick Chan go much faster than some of these guys? He seems very fast

    Oh yeah! His speed across the ice is one of his greatest assets. It’s one of the reasons he can fit in so many little choreography bits and bobs flying down the rink and rack up points even when he splats multiple times.

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    I can’t imagine what the experience for Aliev was like to end up in the final flight. He is my fave of the Russian men by A LOT—expressive in this long program in a way I really enjoy. I hope we see great things from him in the coming years.

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    2 minutes ago, Dots And Stripes said:

    See I thought he was going through the motions. He would make a big arm gesture that didn’t seem to match the music. It was like he was either ahead or behind and going through his preplanned expressive movements even though they were out of time. IMO, Virtue and Moir are selling Moulin Rogue. 

    Oh, no doubt Tessa and Scott are in a league of their own! I suppose I was thing relative to how he’s done this program earlier in the season. I was really digging it in a way I hadn’t previously. Also, I’m a real sucker for a well done spread eagle move.

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    43 minutes ago, carrier76 said:

    Jason Brown often posts videos/pictures showing him bringing or loading up all of the stuffed animals for distribution at children's hospitals.

     

    Unpopular opinion: I can’t stand Hanyu. I have never liked that guy. I’m probably biased, but other than his jumps, which were incredible, I was bored and zoning out during his SP. I hope Javier (or Shoma, or anyone) spanks him in the long. Probably won’t happen, but I can dream.

     

    Another unpopular opinion: I am loving everything about Adam Rippon, including his bizarre interactions with that troll Andrea Joyce. When he wished her luck last night I cackled.

     

    12 hours later and I still so bummed for Nathan Chen. I CARE TOO MUCH.

    I see where’s you’re coming from with Hanyu and Fernandez. Javier is the type to perform outward from the start and actively invite the audience in. Yuzuru, in my view, goes out and gives off a vibe of “I am now going to demonstrate my complete mastery of this sport”. He’s going to do him, whether you, as an audience member, get on board or not. Sometimes it works for me, if all of the jumps are landed and I’m feeling his music choice. Sometimes it doesn’t.

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    34 minutes ago, Mellowyellow said:

    Could someone pretty please give me a run down on how Hanyu won gold in 2014?

    I didn't follow the mens skating but I googled and found that he won so I watched the performance and he fell twice! I was expecting a clean skate. How did he still get gold? 

    He skated lights out in the short program. Set a world record score at the time for it. Both he and Patrick Chan had excellent short program performances and rougher long programs.

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    4 minutes ago, choclatechip45 said:

    Not sure why everyone is blaming NBC for how Nathan performed. In some ways he got lucky that Adam has received all the attention the last couple weeks. Athletes from all different countries and past Olympics have had just as much pressure. Some athletes can handle and some can't. Hopefully this doesn't ruin his career. I'm happy Adam did well. I was worried he would be the one who bombed due to all the media attention he has received.

    Adam hasn’t been getting the kind of gold medal hype Nathan has. Even though Adam has worked incredibly hard to get where he is and is one of the most experienced competitors in this field of men, the tone of the media stories about him is decidedly not about his medal prospects here.

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    I recall Evan Lysacek being in a similar, if less numerically dire, situation in the 2006 Olympics. He bombed—for him—and placed 10th in the short, had the skate of his life in the long, and finished in 4th (thanks in part to the mistakes of many ahead of him). And then he went on to win it 2010. There are worse paths to an OGM that Nathan could emulate.

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    1 minute ago, nextian said:

    That just sucked the life out of that room. Hanyu  was utterly amazing, completely deserving of that score, but I don't know how Nathan could follow it. Ugh. I really just wanted everyone to skate clean. And yes, the media pressure on Nathan has been unbelievable.

    I had the same thought about Hanyu’s performance. I wish he was the last to skate just so we could end on that.

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    8 minutes ago, Growsonwalls said:

    Has Patrick Chan ever known how to do a triple axel?

    I feel like there was a minute in the run-up to Sochi where he was hitting it more than not? Wasn’t he the first to crack 100 in the short in that season’s Grad Prix?

    I would have loved to see this program performed totally clean just once. I dig everything about it.

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