Me 2 ..... Two years is good enough for any upcoming skaters to improve if they set their hearts and minds towards the goal. The Sochi gold is not for Patrick to take.^^^Agree!
Or...we could all get together and give Paula a prize.
Paula created and sustains this board by thousands of hours of hard work and thousands of dollars out of her own pocket, just to give us a place to chat about figure skating.
Paula is the board owner. She posts as gsk8. (Generally when she is giving us a link to the articles in the GS newsletter and GS front page.) As you say, we are anonymous on the boards, unless we choose to be otherwise.
Thanks, Paula! This board is a wonderful place for us skating maniacs to congregate. Besides being fun, for me it's been like college for skate fans.
In some ways when I read this post I think, hmm in many ways it was Chan closing the gap and passing Daisuke. Chan sort of played Dai's game just with less style. Chan is beatable; I actually detest the fact people villanize him as though he is the root of all evil or causing some kind of unfair or unjust placements. If that is the case maybe we should villainize Carolina Kostner the woman who could win worlds with no triple lutz and just one triple flip. This the woman who constantly lucks out on the podium. But we should probably not villainize anyone = they are all beatable if people can outskate them Dai has all the tools - pcs, choreography, program and jumps =- it's just ggetting them there when it counts.
if someone gave me the magical power to look like anyone I chose, "Jennifer Aniston" would not be the first words out of my mouth.
In some ways when I read this post I think, hmm in many ways it was Chan closing the gap and passing Daisuke. Chan sort of played Dai's game just with less style. Chan is beatable; I actually detest the fact people villanize him as though he is the root of all evil or causing some kind of unfair or unjust placements. If that is the case maybe we should villainize Carolina Kostner the woman who could win worlds with no triple lutz and just one triple flip. This the woman who constantly lucks out on the podium. But we should probably not villainize anyone = they are all beatable if people can outskate them Dai has all the tools - pcs, choreography, program and jumps =- it's just ggetting them there when it counts.
The problem has been that Chan has been consistently held up by the judges. Takahashi is a great skater and a great performer. He is not some immature kid who knows no basics. Recently Chan with 4 mistakes was placed over Daisuke who made just one mistake. Chan has great basics, but Daisuke is not a third rate skater to put him below Chan for THAT performance. It's biased judging that causes anti- reactions from some fans. When Chan makes mistakes, he has to pay for them. Unless that happens he is unbeatable because even Chan knows that no matter how anyone skates, he is going to win. No pressure at all.
The problem has been that Chan has been consistently held up by the judges. Takahashi is a great skater and a great performer. He is not some immature kid who knows no basics. Recently Chan with 4 mistakes was placed over Daisuke who made just one mistake. Chan has great basics, but Daisuke is not a third rate skater to put him below Chan for THAT performance. It's biased judging that causes anti- reactions from some fans. When Chan makes mistakes, he has to pay for them. Unless that happens he is unbeatable because even Chan knows that no matter how anyone skates, he is going to win. No pressure at all.
The problem has been that Chan has been consistently held up by the judges. Takahashi is a great skater and a great performer. He is not some immature kid who knows no basics. Recently Chan with 4 mistakes was placed over Daisuke who made just one mistake. Chan has great basics, but Daisuke is not a third rate skater to put him below Chan for THAT performance. It's biased judging that causes anti- reactions from some fans. When Chan makes mistakes, he has to pay for them. Unless that happens he is unbeatable because even Chan knows that no matter how anyone skates, he is going to win. No pressure at all.
Outstanding post and very well said on all counts. All it will do is continue draining the almost non existent popularity of figure skating to virtually nothing in North America, so they cook their own goose it turns out. Funny how even Golden Boy Chan complained about sometimes not being able to afford a taxi ride home earlier this year, so even he isnt really benefitting from the sheer stupidity that figure skating is spitting out (especialy regarding scoring) these days.