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- Nov 21, 2010
Well, the Japan Open is not a serious ISU GP event. It’s like a commercial event funded mainly by Japan, and its main goal is to entertain the local audience and the winner takes $45,000, a big prize. So I can understand that Daisuke going in as the clear Japan #1 would be given a lot of home bonus at that event.I agree that, at National Championships, the interests of the federation are always observed and that, in 2011, Dai was obviously overscored (86 with three falls!!), but at JO the judges are not Japanese, they are from all over the world, so they did overscore him (91...:no but it was not JSF's fault I suppose...
Machida’s FS and that costume are indeed unaesthetic, and he is the only Japanese man who’s not attempting a quad in the short program. I respect Daisuke for always going for the quad. He would have won without the 4T, but he still went for it. Machida is just so lucky that he competed at a weak CoC while Oda, Kozuka, and Hanyu are assigned to 2 strong competitions. I so wanted Daisuke to win CoC. Well, I’m still confident that he’ll come back stronger than ever and win NHK.as much I disliked his FS. It's ridiculous, in some circus artist costume, that btw caused Voronov to get "caught" by Machida's feathers on the podium… Well, after three major events JO, SA and SC Machida is the first winner with no clean quad. :disapp: