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^^^^ I think it's up to the federations but a federation's top 2 by ISU defination cannot decline to compete.
This is all so confusing, why don't they just make it cut & dried, instead of adding substitutes, different skaters for the SP, LP, et al. That's just ridiculous, all for strategy.
For example, say Patrick Chan misses out on an individual gold medal, but Kevin Reynolds is the one selected for the Team Event, and wins a gold medal instead. I wouldn't have a problem with that as Kevin is a favorite of mine, but I'm sure others might. :big grin:
Well that article is 3 yrs. old, I hope he's grown up since then. :roll eye:
And if we did have "two" skaters skating the singles discipline, can you imagine the heat the one will take that didn't live up to expectations. For instance, say the one that skated the SP creamed everybody , then the one that skated the LP totally blew it, losing it for the team Sorry, I would be ticked.
Not really because each gymnast on the Team competes in every apparatus (i.e. vault, bars, beam, floor), whereas Cinquanta is propsosing having one skater skate the SP, then the other the LP.
That is not true. For the team competition at olympics, Bridget Sloan competed only on 1 event, Sacramone- 3, Luikin- 3. Only Shawn Johnson did 4. Everyone does the apparatus that they are best at.
For example, say Patrick Chan misses out on an individual gold medal, but Kevin Reynolds is the one selected for the Team Event, and wins a gold medal instead. I wouldn't have a problem with that as Kevin is a favorite of mine, but I'm sure others might.
In the quote from the Hersh article posted above (post #53), Cinquanta says that he hopes this exact thing happens. This will give fans something "spicy" to argue about on the Internet.
If they're gonna have 8 programs included in the team competition I'm OK with 2 skaters from each discipline participating.
If it was the year the US team could be Rippon - SP, Abbott - LP; Cziny - SP, Wagner - LP; Shibs - SD, D/W - LD; M/B - SP, D/C - LP.