Shmuzzy said:
I am finding it a bit hard to believe that Johnny only beat Lambiel by less that 1 point. Johnny was great and I thought that Lambiel was pretty shaky. His spins weren't up to his normal high standards, he doubled his 3A, and the landings on his quad combo were both cheated. Johnny was nice and clean and deserved his PB score.
I was thinking the same. I hate to get paranoid about these thing but....it makes me wonder if Europeans get some sort of 'extra style points' just for being European of birth! Eastern Europeans get an extra 10% above even Western Europeans! Hey - maybe that's why Johnny was wearing a Russian jacket the other day? ha-ha
Zhang Min got 7th, by the way. Scores thus far:
2 PLUSHENKO Evgeni RUS 1 90.66
13 WEIR Johnny USA 2 80.00
11 LAMBIEL Stephane SUI 3 79.04
1 TAKAHASHI Daisuke JPN 4 73.77
5 BUTTLE Jeffrey CAN 5 73.29
8 CHIPER Gheorghe ROM 6 67.66
14 ZHANG Min CHN 7 67.39
3 SAWYER Shawn CAN 8 67.20
6 DINEV Ivan BUL 9 63.64
10 PFEIFER Viktor AUT 10 62.17
9 DAMBIER Frederic FRA 11 61.17
4 LI Chengjiang CHN 12 60.23
7 BERNTSSON Kristoffer SWE 13 59.55
12 ZIVANOVIC Trifun SCG 14 53.40
Davydov of Belarus next....
