Is this what happened with Belbin/Agosto or was it more amicable?
You realize they won't actually kill each other, right?
maybe they will try rhetorically LOL
I don't think Charlie and Meryl will retaliate. Not their style.
I don't think Charlie and Meryl will retaliate. Not their style.
And because of that, I find it very strange that he says, they laid down "a good enough skate to win". He really thinks their FD should've been 5 points better than D/W, enough to win, when D/W didn't make any mistakes?
Not cool, not classy, Mr. Moir. And I actually thought Weaver/Poje had the best artistic performance of the night...
Dont have the guts
The quote from Scott doesn't make it clear whether he's referring to the whole event of just the free dance.
I wonder if some of this is related to all the criticism Canadian athletes used to get, particularly leading up to Vancouver, about being too complacent and happy with 2nd place or 4th place results. A lot of athletes would come out of events saying "We did our best", or "We're really happy with being 5th (or whatever)". The COC was encouraging athletes to put up more of a fight and don't accept 2nd, or 4th or whatever. I wonder if we would even have athletes like Tessa & Scott and Patrick Chan if they hadn't gone through that. Those athletes really want to be the best, and that's not normal for us Skate Canada had a lot of angst too after 2004 Worlds when they didn't win a medal, but that's a bit of a tangent ...
Anyway, in that context it's nice to see them put up a fight. I'm glad to hear that they really want to go for it.
Now, I'd really like to know what W/P are thinking because I think they got the bigger shaft.
What a disingenuous response on your part. You know that Tessa's comment that you quoted is not what is being seen as "classless and disappointing." Scott's comments most certainly are.
You don't believe it for a second, do you? LOL.
I could kinda read Meryl's face after that Free dance in the kiss and cry when the scores came up. It looked like she was thinking "Only .05? that's some B.S."Actually, I do.
Do you expect Davis and White them to come out with a retaliatory rant about how much better they are than Virtue and Moir and how pissed off they are to beat such an inferior team by only a few hundredths of a point?
The days of soft spoken Canadian stars is a thing of the past. As much as I respect Virtue & Moir and Chan as skaters their arrogance and self righteous attitudes makes me miss the humility and class of our past greats like Kurt Browning, Elvis Stojko, Sale & Pelletier, Bourne & Kraatz, Elizabeth Manley, Jeffrey Buttle, which is sorely lacking in Canadians Champions of today.
I don't think he meant the whole competition. I think he meant the FD, and the PCS scores very specifically. And he's right on that front.