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- Jan 25, 2013
IF he will be healthy, will be quad combo in his SP, and quad combo (4T+3T)and a solo quad Salchow, and one 3A and one 3A+3T and other jumps in LP. The perfect Chan can beat him, but it will not be an easy task.
I don't think executing this content is a matter of if he's healthy. More like, if he's capable, which I don't think he is. He hasn't done two quads in a FS (and never done three) in years. And I'll believe he can do a quad salchow when I see it. Historically, his salchow hasn't been the most reliable jump and he has trouble doing 3S sometimes (including Volvo Cup), and has yet to execute the 4S in competition (has he even attempted 4S in an ISU competition?).
Clearly he's shown that he is relatively healthy, as per his Volvo Cup freeskate, but things like tripling the quad and neglecting to do a 3-3 in his SP were clearly mistakes. If he can do a quad/3-3 in the FS, he should have been able to do it in the SP, so let's not chalk that up to him being not healthy enough. I don't get why when Plushenko makes mistakes it's because he's not healthy enough, but when other skaters make mistakes they're mistakes.