But Patrick had about 9 points on him after the short (and was ahead of Hanyu, too), and after the free just 0.04 ahead.
I never made the argument that Zayak-ing or Oda-ing was a PCS error. It is a MAJOR technical error though in the rule book. mylastduchess is the one who brought up PCS in reply to my comment.
Color me puzzled. Reading the comments, mylastduchess is calling ptf a hypocrite for complaining about Chan's PCS and not Dai's PCS despite having errors - he's only talking about PCS. Your response is to bring up Chan's huge TES error, conflating the two. Can you explain what I'm missing?
My response was in reply to a poster who said that Takahashi and Chan made the same amount of technical mistakes. Takahashi did not Zayak or Oda, so I was pointing out that Chan's technical mistakes were more grave than those of Takahashi's. I never brought subjective PCS into the discussion. I certainly have not defended Takahashi's PCS or wins this season as I've pointed out on numerous occasions that I think his programs this season are totally beneath his skating abilities.
Congratulations to Takahashi, Hanyu, and Chan!
I have to agree with some posters here that, aside from Finlandia, Hanyu has yet to skate a clean FS this season. It's clearly a taxing program, especially for someone with asthma, and I think it's the main reason why he struggles to hold onto his lead after the SP (SA, anyone?). Hopefully he and Orser will work on conserving the energy for those final jumping passes/spins from now until March--barring injury, I see no reason why he wouldn't be at Worlds.
Just realized that a Japanese man has won the silver medal at the GPF for seven straight years:
2006: Daisuke Takahashi
2007: Daisuke Takahashi
2008: Takahiko Kozuka
2009: Nobunari Oda
2010: Nobunari Oda
2011: Daisuke Takahashi
2012: Yuzuru Hanyu
And Daisuke is both the first Japanese man to medal at the GPF (2005, bronze) and the first to win the gold (this year, obviously).
Then maybe you should go to school, together with Patrick, learn some math and how to count. And why are you complaining about PCS anyway if PC still shamefully got the highest PCS? Or you are saying that he should have got 10 and Dai 7, or what? The only one who has the right to complian here is Javi and his fans. He was the one who was robbed by PCS scam for Chan who shouldn't be on the podium at all.Takahashi made the same amount of mistakes as Chan yet his pcs is well deserved?
I agree with you on this one. But look at it with the skater's eyes. The judges were dumb enough not to get Blues, one of the best masterpieces ever in Men skating. And they were surely more open for some cliches that their "intelligence" could comprehend. I somehow would understand the skater in such situation.It is tragic that the judges prefer this to Blues for Klook.....sadly this will probably compel Daisuke to stay with Morozov.
At first I was partly disappointed that I won't see his perfect torso that that coloful stuff highlighted greatly. But that blacky black outfit made him look almost demonic, more like a ballet than opera. The mesmerized audience was terribly quiet watching him and started shouting only at the end.I guess that the change of that terrible costume has helped a lot.
Asahi showed a backstage video after the final, Yuzu kneeled with congratulatiosn for Dai in a traditional manner while Dai was sitting on the chair doing his boots stuff.
GREAT DAY for Team Japan! I hope this ice will be lucky for you a year later too!!!!!! :yay: