Yeah, I agree with the last two points. It's too bad Plushenko wasn't able to achieve this along with his other great achievements.
Me think the same.Only possible thing I see is Russia maybe collecting 10 world titles from the Ladies but it'll be different ladies and probably not consecutively, my head hurts just thinking about the amount of talent they have.
A series of what if...hwell:I think it will happen someday, but not from any of the current crop or emerging junior crop. Torvill & Dean and Gordeeva & Grinkov were both fully capable of it IMO. Yagudin without his career ending injury could have challenged it, if he wanted to.
Remember Jill's title in 1990. I don't fault her, but that skate wouldn't have been anywhere near the podium without her superior performance in figures.
A bit off topic, but an interesting observation: I was wondering how many World titles Gilles Grafstrom (Plushenko tied his record of 4 Olympic medals) has won; I knew people tended to win them by the bucket-load then, so I expected Grafstrom stomp over Plushenko's 3 World titles. I was surprised to realize Grafstrom, too, only won 3 World titles! I guess life always balances out--all skaters seem to have a nemesis competition (GPF for Kwan and V/M, Europeans for Lambiel, Olympics for Browning and Joubert, ect.)Yeah, I agree with the last two points. It's too bad Plushenko wasn't able to achieve this along with his other great achievements.