curious said:that didn't happen for chen lu. she was a world champ in 95 or 96(I think)had a perfect beatiful skate but receive zero benefit from that but this was in canada
Chen Lu was never the reigning World Champ going into an Olys; she won in '95, and took silver in '96. Being reigning World Champ does not always help at the next year's Worlds -- think of Shizuka this year. Reigning World Champ also lost Olys in 1984, where reigning 1983 World champ Roz Summers lost to reigning Worlds fourth place holder Katerina Witt, and in 2002, where reigning World bronze medalist Hughes beat reigning World chanp Kwan.