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Yes, Yu Na Kim's WD from the grand prix series in no way impacted Julia's success this year, and makes her grand prix showings with Yu Na absent (and Kostner doing her usual sleepwalking early season routine) an accurate indicator of her Olympic chances. Hanyu also wasnt unlucky at all to have to meet Chan in both his grand prix outings. Your theories hold about as much water as little paper napkin trying to hold down a flood.
I like Julia alot more than Hanyu who as I already mentioned I am not a fan, but if you think how Julia currently compares to Kim and Asada (or should I say doesnt remotedly compare at this point) is comparable to how Hanyu is a strong factor at the very top of the mens field, then you are beyond delusional. One will be going to the Olympics with serious hopes of a gold medal, and shouldnt do worse than silver unless he implodes, and the other will be trying to hold off a bunch of women to win a bronze medal, with absolutely no hope of doing better unless 1 of 2 skaters has a complete and utter catastrophe.
Anyway I wasnt just comparing who is better or who has a stronger standing right now, but breaking down their skill sets which arent even to each other. And that Hanyu actually is better in some ways than Chan, he has a much higher base value in the long program, and his GOEs can match and even surpass Chan's; unlike Julia who is better than say Asada at practically nothing (even spins Asada can pretty much match her in).
"Laughable", "idiot", "delusional"...look, I'm done debating if the tone cannot be kept civil. This is an interesting debate but not when insults are thrown. Kovtun, if he is skating his 4-5quad program, will come close to or beat YH's BV. If Sochi is Russia pushing for new blood, then yes, all the frontrunners will be threatened. If that is the case, YH might win OGM, but you can't expect then Mao to win with her GPF performance at GPF in Japan vs JL, as JL's PCS and GOE will rise significantly, especially for battle of LP.
If the old rules hold and stature is valued, veterans have an edge over newcomers, then PC, Mao/Yuna, will all keep their frontrunner status.
I didn't want to believe there are PC haters, but it appears different standards are vehemently applied here to PC that they do not say, for Mao, who has often won despite falling and not bringing her A game. To me, PC and Mao are of equal stature and quality of skating, and both enjoy judges' favoritism, and deservedly so.