Patrick needed to watch Yuna Kim tonight to see how a real champion wins.
what I hope Chan is saving for the olympics is a fall on every element and a last place finish. damn it, i just can't stand him!
Chan seems like a reasonably intelligent young man. You can't blame him for the scoring, but it's galling that he seems to believe it too. A proper response to a disastrous program like that is, "I'm disappointed I didn't do as well as I wanted to and while I am happy with the result, I will be going home to work even harder for next time". Not making comments about his competitors. ANY athlete who critiques their competitors performance, ESPECIALLY if they've won over them, is beyond classless. You just don't do that. I understand that if you lose to what you feel is a less deserving performance it's easy to critique in the heat of the moment, but if you're the one who came out on top...keep your mouth shut. It's not your place to say who did better.
Patrick's comments here are worse...
http://metronews.ca/sports/597990/patrick-chan-tries-to-shrug-off-his-critics/
Oh I thought the title was " Chan saving himself for the Olympics" like the virgin bachelor Sean Lowe.
Oh I thought the title was " Chan saving himself for the Olympics" like the virgin bachelor Sean Lowe.
Putting words in his mouth?Proper post-competition sound byte remark from Chan for an ugly win like this:
"I'd like to thank the technical panel and judges for this gift. Clearly, I still have a lot to work on for next season. Thanks. Goodbye." (exit stage left)
I suspect a former competitor?ImaginaryProgue said:I'm pretty sure PTF is Canadian, actually.
Patrick has to be the worst 3 time champion ever. You would think with a dominating streak like that he would have had some memorable skates during that time. Other then 2011 he was sloppy and lucky to win. Can you imagine showing someone Chan's skates from Worlds 2012 or 2013 twenty years from now? They will be like how the hell did this guy win?
Oh I thought the title was " Chan saving himself for the Olympics" like the virgin bachelor Sean Lowe.
Whew. I'm glad I wasn't the only one. I was really puzzled by the thread title for about five seconds (reminded me of that one article before the London Olympics about athletes and, erm, extra "pent-up energy".
A National Post article titled, "Patrick Chan on criticism at figure skating worlds: ‘I truly believe I deserved to win’"
http://sports.nationalpost.com/2013...ing-worlds-i-truly-believe-i-deserved-to-win/
I don't think Patrick is surprised and embarrassed at all - he said, "I went to bed a bit bummed,” he said, in a gathering with a handful of media people. “I can’t imagine if I didn’t win a gold medal, how much worse I’d feel. But I truly believe I deserved to win.”
“If I gave my own marks, I definitely would criticize myself a lot more, but that’s just the perfectionist in me. But I deserved every point that I got, and worked hard for it.’’
“It was one point. There was no inflation. If there had been inflation, maybe I’d have had a 10-point lead after the (short). I had a great skate in the short program, and yet Denis had it. He just didn’t capitalize.”
:disagree:
Can you get more presumptious than that?
Eventually this gravy train has to end. It will probably end at the Olympics.