Fine. Then how about offering your views on their appearance as opinion instead of as fact?
Then you have to first be able to show any comments re: their appearance have been construed as facts as opposed to an opinion.
Good luck with that.
Fine. Then how about offering your views on their appearance as opinion instead of as fact?
The bolded line is stated as fact, not opinion ("they are not as good-looking as many..."). Above it, your view of how good they are as skaters is stated as opinion, not fact ("Maybe it's just me..."). Below it, the statement re: handing the bronze medal to W/P is stated as opinion, not fact ("Personally, I would..."). You seem to be able to distinguish between opinion and fact quite well, when you want to.Maybe it's just me as I tend to focus on the technical aspect when I watch skating - from a technical standpoint, you can't help but admire how good the Shibs are. Difficult, high standard but performed with ease and smoothness, to make their composition look effortless is quite an achievement yet they are so young. I have said before quite frankly that their lack of maturity is an issue and that they are not as good looking as many of the super good looking teams ahead of them in this model world of Ice Dance. That said, from a technical standpoint, can't take anything away from what the Shibs have achieved technically. Personally, I would hand the overall Bronze medal to Weaver/Poje on the basis of SD + FD combined. Though, I don't have an issue that the panel collectively came to a different conclusion because I have no doubt it is fair and rooted in reasonable rationale.
It's funny how you put it this way. The irony is Pechalat/Bourzat were pretty much assured of the Bronze after the SD but due to the freak fall, the medal that was due to be given to France has now disappeared in Russia.
Congratulations to Davis and White. I also have to add a huge congrats to my team favorites - Virtue and Moir for a job well done after such a long struggle with their injury issues. It was a very close call as far as the outcome.
V/M and D/W are deservedly unreachable over the rest of the field at this point in time. You yourself just hit upon why the Russians did not do well - their skating is a poor rehash of former eras. P/B would have easily won the Bronze had they not gone SPLAT. I fully expect them to be able to claim a Bronze next year if they keep their level of skating in tact and don't screw up like that.
If Europe wants to challenge V/M and D/W then they need to produce a team that had the creativity and ability of Delobel/Shoenfelder.
The bolded line is stated as fact, not opinion ("they are not as good-looking as many..."). Above it, your view of how good they are as skaters is stated as opinion, not fact ("Maybe it's just me..."). Below it, the statement re: handing the bronze medal to W/P is stated as opinion, not fact ("Personally, I would..."). You seem to be able to distinguish between opinion and fact quite well, when you want to.
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Crone/Poirier: .... DO not give them easy Grand Prix events next season. Particularly not Skate Canada. Capiche? Okay. I think this dance is easily the most intellectually ambitious dance of the year. But clearly, it didn’t work for some people. It never really improved, and they made some changes that take away from it. I actually think that Poirier’s expressive capabilities are quite high, as are Vanessa’s, but something’s amiss in this performance. It’s disappointing.
I doubt they will get Skate Canada this time around. Skate Canada will use V/M to fufill the 1-3 slot and W/P to fufill the 4-6 requirement. The last Canadian team will likely be a TBA to be determined after Nebelhorn ( often used to determine who gets the 3rd Canadian spot at SC ). So in other words SC will likely use a team with low/no ISU ranking as the 3rd Canadian team and not a relatively highly ranked team like C/P who is guaranteed 2 GP slots off the bat.
Agreed completely. The interesting thing is the same strategy cannot be applied to D/W and S/S because they both fall into the 1-3 category. Assuming D/W gets Skate America, USFS will have to farm S/S somewhere else, likely in the turf of a potentially "hostile" country like France or Russia where they got home teams who will be eager to defeat these two young World Bronze Medalists since the Shibs can't go to Canada either due to conflict with V/M's category as well.