I have to laugh at some of the voting results here. Weir with almost a quarter of the votes between him and Lambiel skating cleanly, ok I know Lambiel is still way ahead, but how can a quarter of you honestly think that, are some of you out of your mind. Lambiel would destroy Weir if both skated cleanly, he would probably beat him by 10 points in the short and 20 points or so in the long assuming Lambiel did his triple axel and all the other jumps he had planned. Weir cant even beat somebody like Lysacek with both skating cleanly anymore.
The last program Weir beat Lambiel in was the short program at the 2006 Olympics when Lambiel doubled his triple axel, two footed his quad combo, bobbled out of his last spin, so gave up atleast 6 points in mistakes and finished 1 point behind Weir's new PB. Weir is not anywhere near as popular with judges as he was then and scores about 5 points lower probably with a clean short now. Thinking how high Lambiel can score in the long with a clean skate, and the highest Weir is capable of, it would be even more of a wipeout.
Also how can anybody think the judges would put a clean Arakawa over a clean Slutskaya at this point if they were still competing. At the Olympics Arakawa doubled one of her triple-the triple loop. When you add up the points, lets say Slutskaya had only doubled the triple flip, and not fallen on her triple loop, she and Shizuka would have had almost the same mistake right? Would it have been very close to who won if Slutskaya had only doubled her triple flip and not fallen on her triple loop? No it would have been a blowout win for Arakawa still, look at the point, Irina was almost 10 points back overall, and about 10 and a half back in the long. Falling on a triple loop is 4 points off total, even if she gained something ridiculous, like .5 on each PC mark, and 1 full point on GOE on that jump she still falls short overall by 1 point and 1.5 in the long, and you know that is an exagerrated gain as well. Even with almost the same mistake as Arakawa in the long the scores prove Slutskaya had zero chance of winning over Arakawa
had then been her only mistake. In fact the scores show even if Slutskaya had not made either mistake, doubling the triple flip, and falling on the triple loop, this is when it would have been extremely close for the overall gold and the long program win. With Arakawa and Slutskaya both doubling almost the same value jump Slutskaya had no chance, and with Slutskaya skating cleanly and Arakawa doubling one jump it was uncertain which wins. What does that tell you to any of those who voted Slutskaya?
As for Asada vs Cohen, Asada would crush Cohen with her jumping arsenal. Those who voted for Cohen were going by a nice sentimental choice or something, it is a no brainer, if Asada lands all her jumps Cohen wouldnt have a prayer. Cohen vs Meissner would be close with both skating cleanly, but Asada is just as strong in jumps as Meissner, but stronger on spins, sequences, and the second mark then Meissner.
Some of these poll options are silly anyway, I dont know why some of them were even made, and even worse is in 3 of them which are so obvious some of you even voted for the impossable one for some wierd reason.
