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No wonder, it's hard to have skate like this.
2024 Grand Prix de France Men's Short Program
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is what makes figure skating a sport.
Not because of jumps, or oh boy is that athletic (although that can be part of it).
But any given comp and any given Sunday.... and sadly, the effect of injuries. It happens in every sport.
Andrew T. in fourth ... so far
. We still have a free to skate. 
Not because of jumps, or oh boy is that athletic (although that can be part of it).
But any given comp and any given Sunday.... and sadly, the effect of injuries. It happens in every sport.
Andrew T. in fourth ... so far
. We still have a free to skate. 
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sure but there are other SPs i recall with a bunch of injured skaters too... this one was just out there. (and no need to hello me LOL... i am pretty aware of the condition of some of these guys )
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Jimmy skates November 12-16 at CS Tallinn
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Torgashev in 4th is good of course but it does show how badly the rest went onWell, I had to leave midway through the first group, but I see Torgashev is in fourth, so it can’t be all bad
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i didn't catch that... why would he speak English to his coaches though ? curious.
And what was the severity of their injuries in the other SPs? When Yuzu tore his ligament in the right ankle (like Adam did over the summer and was off the ice for over 6 weeks) he wasn't even sure he'd make it to the OLYG. He W/D from NHK, missed the GPF, and was only starting to jump again on the ice, 2 weeks before the OLYG. Then he began to injure that same ankle, repeatedly. Even ended up on crutches in Russia, hobbling to the podium. What is it that you don't understand about injuries changing whether or not you can even skate or jump? Injuries in sports can end careers. This is a sport - did you forget?
If I'm not with you in the evenig, you know what happened 
The same reason Benoit shouted, "Thank God" after Adam skated his FS at Worlds. They're all fluent in English.
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I am not sure what you are trying to convey here.
We just watched a SP with poor performances all across the board (except for one clean program). Yes, there were injured skaters who feel that they are fit enough to compete. A very unfit skater can definitely W/D.
We just had Skate Canada where two of the 3 Canadians were badly hurt. The SP was still not as bad as this one.
And yes, I am well aware this is a sport. And in sport, many athletes compete injured. My take on this is that if they decide to compete on an injury, is that they feel they are ready enough for that, or feel that they will not make their injury worse.
Two of my favourite young pair teams haven't competed all season. LaLa skipped their earlier events. I am not sure what you think I am thinking but here it is again to clarify :
This SP was BAD. It doesn't matter to me how many skaters are injured or not. I wish them all very well. At the same time, I am also very aware that MANY if not all skaters are competing with some injury or another. The severity of the injury is something that their medical team will evaluate. In the end, my comment was about what I saw. A very poorly performed event. That is the reality no matter who is injured or not.
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Ok but he looked ok in Nice - not 100% in shape but solid work in progress. And today he was mess.
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LOL. I am bilingual. I speak French with people who speak French and English with people who are anglophones.
I was just curious why he would say such a thing in English as the normal reflex would be to express himself in his mother tongue... but hey. it's okay.. I will take your word for it as I didn't catch that.
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I blame the program. Not sure anybody could skate that hot mess well. Too many jumps in the beginning, too empty in the end (though kudos for Adam for delivering the StSq).
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Well, that other program is better, maybe he should focus on working on it to make the most of it.
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In the interviews I have seen, Adam is conversant, but far from fluent, in English. He prefers to speak in French. So there is no reason for Adam to speak English to Benoit?
I may be fluent in another language. But I speak in my native language to persons who share that native language. It just makes sense.
I've witnessed them speaking English to each other and to other people over the years. This is not something new.
Far from it. The man falls at Nice (with people complaining online he didn't get up fast enough) and gets his first downgraded << 4Lz in his skating career along with another downgraded combination jump and that was okay? Downgrades are the worst you can get. Not just under-rotated but downgraded. This is starting to remind of someone who claimed a skater had a "near-perfect" skate but he lost a full 10 points on a jump because of a downgrade and instead the person chose to make it a conspiracy of sorts rather than learn scoring in skating. What may have looked okay to you wasn't okay to the judges or the people watching him fall. His FS scorecard looks a mess in red.
You can't be off the ice for a long time and expect to just pop back as if nothing happened. As for serious injuries, one can be okay for a day or a week and be out of commission for the next two weeks. I've had serious injuries and when you get them, healing isn't linear. A setback can occur at any time.
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All I hope is that they will take the time to heal up. Adam looked really unwell, maybe he was also a bit sick? Or in pain, but he looked totally che
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