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- Jul 30, 2003
I agree with Jeff's silver medal, and I am American so my view is NOT tainted by National Bias. Jeff really delivered two wonderful programs and his spins, footwork, MITF and musicality were near-perfect. The program was choreographically challenging and tastefully balanced with great attention paid to how the body movements related to the music (the bent-at-the-waist spread eagle was one great example). He did make very costly jump errors, but since everyone else did also, the quality of his non-jump moves elevated him. I'm really happy he did well.As for her comments re: Buttle winning silver - I completely agree with her. And yes, I am Canadian, so you can dismiss my opinion as national bias if you like, or give it its due. On a night without so many mistakes, Buttle would not have placed so high, but even with two falls the quality of his performance and skating on all of the other elements was such that he stood above most of the field. Not to mention a superb short that put him in the running. I also agree that some of the media tended not to know as much about COP as they should. In 6.0 you looked at the falls almost exclusively, in COP you look at the whole. It is one of the things I like most about COP.
However, Wilkes, in my view, lost 90% of her credibility when she said Plush, Sasha and Kwan should be banned from 05 Worlds. She particularly targeted the U.S. ladies and talked about how great the Canadian's ladies CoP programs were. SOMEONE's national bias was showing, that's for sure.
As for Bianchetti, I think she's a scream. Is she the Hunter S. Thompson of skating?
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