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Australia's female entry Kailani Craine is really happy about the purple, it's her favourite colour! [emoji3] Hopefully it'll give her good luck!
I hope so! Can't wait to see Kailani!
Australia's female entry Kailani Craine is really happy about the purple, it's her favourite colour! [emoji3] Hopefully it'll give her good luck!
Times sure have changed. I don't think Michelle was followed around by cameras in Nagano right after Tara took the lead. Yeah we saw her walking down the halls wiping away tears but she was pretty much left alone. And of course in SLC they let her go behind the closed doors to be by herself without a moment of nastiness. Such things would never happen today. The media have long crossed the line, its unfortunate :disagree:
No the media has often been intrusive. I can remember David Santee interviewing Brian Orser in the kiss and cry in Calgary 1988 and asking him how it felt to lose the gold medal.
Totally agree. When they kept hyping Nathan up, I just knew something bad was going to happen. I mean, sure he is an amazing talent and one of the favorites this year, but they were acting like he was reigning World Champ or the male version of Evgenia or something. Much like Gracie Gold, I feel like the US media is just so desperate to pin their Olympic dreams on the new up and coming American youngster, it can be so distracting and end up having a negative impact for the athlete. I felt so bad when they basically cornered Nathan to interview him after his disastrous short. I know being in the Mix interview zone or whatever it is called is required but still. I heard Kolyada stormed past the reporters to avoid questioning, and I would've done something similar in the interest of self-preservation/not bawling on international TV. Kudos to Nathan for keeping it together and giving pretty honest, reasonable answers. Hope he redeems himself on the individual competitions.
I can only presume I'm not alone in this.
I disagree. They were looking very calculated throughout the performance. Only when they finished the tough elements did they loosen up. Of course they were also facing a ton of pressure when Kolyada bombed and good on them for going clean and having a strong skate. The judges were probably hankering for a clean skate (D/R were rough on the lutzes bur overall solid).
S/K was a pleasant surprise too and alleviated some of the damage from Nathan placing lower than expected.
D/R look exuberant and naive--certainly not calculated.If you think Tarasova and Morosov look calculated what do you have to say about Duhamel and Radford? I do think there is an argument that S/M should have higher PCS, but compared to D/R, T/M's PCS was fine.
Gosh russianfan, you've had a year since joining this Forum to call it stupid and didn't. Seems like the only time it became an issue for you was after the results from last night. Was it stupid when you watched Yulia in 2014 win her one and only OGM, ...I wonder. As it's been a year on this Forum, I don't recall you ever bemoaning her medal or that of Plushy and others. Were these as well tainted or somehow unearned...
Here's the thing russianfan, try calling Team events 'stupid' to legends like Mark Spitz, Mary Lou Retton, Usain Bolt, or Michael Phelps, and see how they react to your dismissal of their Olympic medals and moments. But hey, if it helps your narrative in the next few days, ...'stupid' it is!
Tech panel is bought by Canada?
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How this obvious 3A<< can be missed? He should got zero point for this and Canada should be lower in standings.
As for our canadian fans, i kinda wonder if you are a fair sample from canadian population. Because well, ive seen many of you complaining about Medvedeva getting high PCs despite a fall and agreeing that falls = lower PCs no matter what. I wonder where are you people now complaining about how PC got high PCs despite two falls. Why arent you guys complaining that he is overscored and too high in the standings, and should drop at least 2 positions?
You are as nationalistic and biased as everybody else.
I think the difference is that Patrick isn’t getting 10’s when he falls, but Evgenia has on more than one occasion.
Can they both be overscored, absolutely. Is it to the same degree? I would argue no.
Tech panel is bought by Canada?
https://cdn.tribuna.com/fetch/?url=http://images.vfl.ru/ii/1518254999/21f0a67f/20525185.gif
How this obvious 3A<< can be missed? He should got zero point for this and Canada should be lower in standings.
As for our canadian fans, i kinda wonder if you are a fair sample from canadian population. Because well, ive seen many of you complaining about Medvedeva getting high PCs despite a fall and agreeing that falls = lower PCs no matter what. I wonder where are you people now complaining about how PC got high PCs despite two falls. Why arent you guys complaining that he is overscored and too high in the standings, and should drop at least 2 positions?
You are as nationalistic and biased as everybody else.
Moren than one occasion? Evgenia fell maybe 2 or 3 times in her whole senior career. Maybe you are mistaken Evgenia for Carolina.
I like Evegenia, but she's fallen more times than that. Four times that I can recall in her first season alone (Nepela, SA, Rostelecom, Euros).
Moren than one occasion? Evgenia fell maybe 2 or 3 times in her whole senior career. Maybe you are mistaken Evgenia for Carolina.