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You know JonnyCoop, couldn't it also be that *gasp* K&P, U&Z, and G&P were fantastic ice dancers, and deserved their placements!JonnyCoop said:Usova/Zhulin, Klimova/Ponomarenko, and Gritshuk/Platov didn't have to wait long to get into the top 5, either; they were all pretty much in it at their 1st Worlds. So the supposed "wait your turn" rule (and this is not a rule I made up, people have been saying it for decades) would not seem to apply to Russians.
Also, what implies that there is this "rule"? In the past, that may have been likely, but I think the Duchesnays winning the 1991 World Championship shattered that so called "belief".
On N&K, are you even considering their skating at all! Personally, I don't like their programs, but I hope you see that they are perhaps the smoothest dancers today. They have great lifts and dance spins, and are very clean skaters. They aren't sloppy like DenSta and DelSho, and don't have the scratchy edges of Ruslan Goncharov. Wow, it can't be that they actually deserve to be #1!
- What probably held N&K back in the past was their total lack of content and low speed, which isn't really that much of a problem anymore, as they have fixed that.
Also, can you explain A&P? How did they just rise up ahead of the established canon? They rose up and left behind the "established" B&K! Wow, this happens!