just thought of something... in tennis for instance... or hockey... etc... we will often hear a player saying, well my opponent was great today and I am so happy to have won, got lucky a few times, (ball went over the net or in the net depending on the sport)...
but in figure skating, saying something else than I deserved the win would imply that the judges didn't do their job properly... no matter how clean a skater skates at a competition, if they end up on top of the podium, they cannot start saying things like "i was lucky, or i shouldn't have won"... it would open a huge can of worms... so i think the actual best comment is to say I am so happy I won, i worked hard, I deserved it
no? just a thought.
shyne said:
(ie "i am so much better than this... like realllly!! ") LOL enjoy !
It's kind of interesting, actually. In North America there is (or was) more or less a tradition that we expected our athletes, first, to be the strong silent type, and second, if you just must say something, then say, "Aw shucks, t'wern't nothin'."
But when the great boxer Muhammad Ali came along shouting "I am the greatest!", the young people loved it as much as the old people hated it. Patrick ought to come out with a few rhymes. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Yuzuru Hanyu can't touch me!" :yes:
I also like Babe Ruth's (baseball player from the 1020s) comment when he got a big raise in salary after hitting 60 home runs. A reporter asked him, "How do you justify making more money the President of the United States?" Ruth answered, "I had a better year."
For some reason, certain individuals van get away with this and others can't.
The "heroic boast" is a set piece in epic literature. Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh … their stories would not be complete if they hadn't waxed eloquent about all the fierce things they were going to do to their foes. :yes:
but it doesn't mean that one is right and the other is wrong 
i agree with this... in my post, i precise that i think both are great people but express themselves differently.... i am not here to create hate... i have said it many times, i like not only chan and yuzu but denis, nam, misha and many others from the current field, and tons of great champions from the past like jeff, dice, kurt etc...
i think that fans get too monogamous with their love of a skater.... they only see their favorites and then give plenty of "hate" to the others... that's what bugs me... sport is all about having many good contenders... if there were only one good skater, it would be very boring... i value each of these guys and wish them the best... i felt like saying this because i don't think you read my post correctly... that actually may be cultural as well... and when that happens, it does create a lot more issues...
PS there was practically no comments about yuzu and medias here... many of the posts were triggered by a question: why do people dislike Patrick so much... he is such a great skater? (not quoting exactly but it's a few pages back from mrrice)
some people compared answers to media of both skaters... and of course they are different...
Dice? You mean D1sk/Dai?
watching skate america c an't wait any longer for hopefully an epic battle ( and not who stands more on feetarty:
watching skate america c an't wait any longer for hopefully an epic battle ( and not who stands more on feet
"Denis Ten will absolutely win Skate America, unless he bombs."
