I have an issue with your incorrect use of the figure skating vocabulary and not bothering to get your facts straight before complaining. Falling on a jump is not a missed element. Missed element means omission, falling isn't an omission. Only an omission had a deduction of 0.5, a number which you used incorrectly in your complaint. You were applying the wrong deduction and not distinguishing the difference between elements and now, using confusing & incorrect figure skating terms that would confuse even more people who either weren't exposed to the 6.0 system or have forgot about it.
Here is the bottom line, for your whining to have any merit under 6.0 system re: 2010 Skate Canada results, you will have to justify Chan's SP placement to 6th or lower, not whether he is 4th or 5th. Know that the 6th place guy didn't have a Quad or Triple-Triple in the SP and would have a 0.3 deduction for the mistake on his combination spin and at the time, and never placed in the Top 10 of the world. Even if he were to skate clean, he would lucky to be above 5.0 for Required Elements without a Quad or Triple-Triple, not to mention combination spin was seriously messed up and the mandatory deduction that came with it. There was simply no chance for Chan to place 6th or lower.
It amazes me we have to spend so much time discussing the 2010 results in the 2011 thread. :scowl: I think someone ought to start a thread in the Edge called: I hate Patrick Chan because... thread and keep all complaints there.
I don't hate Patrick Chan. Just because I disagree with some of his results once in awhile, doesn't mean I hate him. I also talk about how ridiculous it was for Yu-na to win the Long in Torino 2010 worlds and that she shouldn't have had that big PCS lead over Asada. Do I hate Yu-na too. Oh wait I was rooting for Yu-na to win Olympic Gold. I've complained about Lambiel and Daisuke getting away with messy skates.
Its not about Patrick Chan for me. Wally. its about the fact that if any skater can get over there and wipe out 4 times, and still win over very good skaters, than whats the freakin point of even watching? Whats the point of having the elements too becasue obviously how they execute elements means NOTHING. That's my anger, and its got nothing to do with Patrick. I dont' have a problem with Patrick he didn't make the system. But i have a problem with either the judging or the system. Its going to destroy this sport if results like that happen all the time.
And who says that Alban wouldn't have been in fifth behind Chan. Yeah they would have given him 5.8s in Presentation but if the judges had to gie Chan less than 5.0 in tech, he'd be in trouble. At the end of the day one error on the jump isn't the same as multiple errors in the short.
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