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Inquiring minds would like to know who do you think doesn't want to defend the honor of their country?
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2018 Olympic Figure Skating Team Event Day 1
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Inquiring minds would like to know who do you think doesn't want to defend the honor of their country?
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I did! I thought it was rather cool
Although I did notice the overhead camera work on the spins/death spirals...it's a bad angle, don't do it camerapeople!
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I hate the team event, but I do think there is a way of approaching it. Look at it as getting the kinks out. It's either that or blow it off, do crappy, and step onto the individual ice with a crap performance under your belt. We haven't really had enough team events, this being only the second, to see how or if they affect the individual event for the skater. Non-fave skaters could also use it nail down some great performances and put some pressure on. For instance, I would have loved to see Adam Rippon come out and kill it in the team event. If for no other reason than if I hear the name "Nathan Chen" one more time I'm going to drive a spike into my ear. And I in no way blame Nathan for this. They REALLY need to lay off him.
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I find it funny that some posters here who obviously are not invested in the team medals
are so sure that the athletes who are on the verge of getting them share that sentiment
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what would it change though? i don't see a point
teamwork lol
)I don't get why Russia didn't split the men, but the pairs!! giving the free to Z/E
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teamwork lol
I don't get why Russia didn't split the men, but the pairs!! giving the free to Z/E
My head cannon is that T/M are instituting a super-secret long program swap.
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They are excellent (and better than the rest of the field competing today) in some elements of the skating which are strictly connected with the fact that 2 skaters are on the ice at the same time, as unision, 'oneness' (skating as one), spatial awareness, harmony and timing in the movements between the partners... So for the pairs and ice dance what is also very important and what is another base for good PCS (except your basic SS) is that synchronicity. In that regard Pairs skating is close in some parts to Synchronised skating... About their Interpretation of the music - they are very good in timing (skating to the beat and tacts of the music), but they are not at the same level in expressing nuancies and finneses of the music (during the whole programme and with the highest quality), so you can see that Savchenko/Massot are scored a little bit higher in that category here.
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I also think he gave the best performance, he was the only guy who actually looked excited to be there and attacking the performance the whole time, doing some nice fast and clean skating, especially those spins! Should have placed 3rd but the judging was a farce as usual, Patrick Chan and Nathan Chen being held up (and Shoma, that score was too high, even if the placement was deserved).
Yan Han also should have placed ahead of both Patrick Chan and Nathan Chen for me. He has fabulous skating skills and a very good program, delivering it with more heart than those two guys did, and technically he deserved to have a small advantage as well. He at least did the Triple-Triple in comparison to Chan, and while they both had 2 falls, Yan Han's falls didn't look like full falls, he didn't fall on his backside and instead had two hands down on the ice.
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The level of Pair skating in « the rest of the world » has increased, more countries have developped a pair program since. Countries aim at making the final five. I like the concept of rewarding the depth of a team.
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That would be wonderful! So wonderful! Let this be true!
It's interesting, and debatable. I am not a morning person, so I fully understand. Doing quads at 10 am (in competition) means you do at least triple jumps at 6 am. They are lucky they are young, as the older you get, the more dangerous it becomes. Still planning sport event for prime time on Eastern coast is wrong and insane. Money, and adds are all that come into consideration. I doubt they care for figure skating fans or figure skaters.
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What is the problem in the Team competitions is how the scores are awarded for each team after the end of every single competition. In my opinion scores should somehow also reflect differences between the scores in every category, not just the placements. So if we have 55 points for SP at the table, the scores after Men short should be reworded as
1)Japan 12
2)Israel 9
3)Canada 7
4)USA 6
5)ITA, KOR, CHN 5
6)OAR 3
7)GER 2
8)FRA 1
or something like that
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^ Yes that is a much better way of assigning the points.
France didn't even try to make the final five by deciding to sit P/C out of the event and China didn't take it seriously either, sitting out their top singles skater and pair team.
The only countries trying to make the final 5 are the same ones as the last Olympics, with Japan and Italy essentially being given a free pass into the second phase of the event because of those other two countries not caring.
That's not what this team event does though. It rewards the breadth shown by ONE skater/pair per discipline, in the Short Program. The event is anti-depth, with the way only two substitutions are allowed for the Long Program and that segment of the competition being nearly meaningless anyway.
France didn't even try to make the final five by deciding to sit P/C out of the event and China didn't take it seriously either, sitting out their top singles skater and pair team.
The only countries trying to make the final 5 are the same ones as the last Olympics, with Japan and Italy essentially being given a free pass into the second phase of the event because of those other two countries not caring.
That's not what this team event does though. It rewards the breadth shown by ONE skater/pair per discipline, in the Short Program. The event is anti-depth, with the way only two substitutions are allowed for the Long Program and that segment of the competition being nearly meaningless anyway.
I do not mind those aerial shots of well-centered spins for a change. Of course it has to be done with taste and without excess..
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