We need some Chinese people here who knew the nuance of mandarin words to translate Boyang's answers. Thank you.
BTW, I predicted before the season started that Yuzuru would break his own record! He only broke the free skate, but I was RIGHT!
Spanish and Canadian judges Embarrassment.
There is no way Shoma beat Hanyu for the skate they put out. To be honest,Uno's jumps landings are so low and bizarre looking the GOEs are on the generous side big time already. I like his performance and skating skills, not his jumps
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These two judges are the strictest overall, often the ones giving the lowest scores to most skaters. Judges from Japan, Israel, and Ukrain, OTOH, are the most generous across the board. The ones giving the highest scores to a skater is not always the one who placed him higher, and lower scores don't necessarily mean lower placement from the same judge.
Hanyu's is first unanimously and Uno is second by most except for the Australian judge who loved Jin, scoring him 94.50 PCS(!) and 2nd overall along with China. Spain had Fernandez 3rd and Patrick 4th while Canada had Chan 3rd and Fernandez 5th. Canadian judge didn't give Chan the highest GOE (though almost the highest) or the highest PCS. In fact, s/he gave his/her highest PCS to Uno while 5 other judges gave Chan higher PCS than the Canadian judge did.
Mixed opinions and some biases from the judges but these two being " embarrassment"? Hardly.
Hanyu has a good chance to become the first man since Dick Button to defend his Olympic Gold medal, something the much more arrogant but far less talented Evgenia Plushenko was unable to do.
Where did that speed come from on his final spin? That was great kevin, maybe a few urs....kevin seems to deliver when things are on the line... nice job!!!
One thing I never thought I'd see at a World Championships was people declaring Patrick's PCs were too low. Next you'll try to tell me Canada got two ladies on the podium ... oh wait
Wasn't Hanyu written off just like few days ago ?
MY DREAM PODIUM!!!! I CANT BELIEVE!!!!!
Yuzu and Shoma should get double gold while they get married on that podium!!!!!!!!!!
omg what an event i am so happy after the ladies disaster
No..he should skate to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb3tHsCLWsI
I dont think they were too low when you compare to what Hanyu and even Uno got for their skates. They were definitely too low compared to what Fernandez got for his skate. I honestly thought Fernandez's would even be yet another 2-3 points higher (maybe equal to Hanyu's as ridiculous as that would be for their skates tonight) for one reason- to still keep him on the podium over Boyang. Thank goodness they didnt go out of their way to that extent to make that happen as I would have guessed them doing before his marks came up.
Poor Javi, he is still probably my favorite male skater, I hope he can recover from this. I want him to win an Olympic medal next year super badly, any color at all. It was a joke he lost the bronze to Ten in Sochi, it was the judges make up gift to Ten for the 2013 worlds.
No, that's not true. It was Javier's fault for zayaking. As much as I am not a fan of Denis Ten, he delivered at the Olympics.
Glad I'm not the only one who does NOT drink the Uno Kool-Aid. Can you imagine a skater with such flawed jumps becomeschampion? All the kids will think pre-rotation is the way to go and cheat every jumps!