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- Jan 6, 2007
I don't think he will either. He is such a fighter, let's make that F-I-G-H-T-E-R. I think he just loves coming back after people wrote him off. Last year at Worlds, despite the fact that he didn't win, must have been a huge confidence builder in terms of keeping it together at big competitions. Everyone before him broke apart, and he, despite the illness that made him look overly thin and sick all season, despite the stupid fall on the Lutz - just got out there and produced a clean, albeit not fully maxed-out, performance.Am I the only person who thinks Brian isn't going to have a melt down. When he does, I usually feel it weeks in advance, but not now. I don't think he'll perform his best, but I don't think we'll be seeing something like 05 worlds or 06 Olys.
This season everything is about the younger ones, the ones that are "fully adapted to COP", lots of people are saying that Brian is a skater of the past, then there is the whole Quad thing, plus people outside of Europe just love to trash him -- I think it will make Brian even stronger. He will come to L.A. ready for battle: against the younger ones, against the constant stream of neat little well-behaved uncontroversial boys with their neat little COPish lyrical programs in their neat little respectable costumes, against the Quad-haters... I don't know if he will win the battle, but he will give it his best shot and I for one am very happy to know that he will be there.