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2026 Olympics: Men's Free Skate
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Because there's no difference between comments on skating and competition, and personal comments? If so, I agree. Everything's exactly the same.
Not even remotely. It's true in sports and it's true in business. I've competed in the former and still compete in the latter. It's what I taught every person whoever worked for me on my team. And it's why I'm still alive after coming out of a 360 degree spin on an icy highway.
Good luck to you.
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Are we still assuming skaters randomly come to check random people's thoughts? Well, in that case I hope that those top men you mentioned earlier would think to themselves after reading your comment: "why, thank you for the constructive criticism of my skating! Being told I'm a "chaff" was totally what I needed to make me a better skater in the future and lift my spirit up after less than optimal event. What a kind stranger on the internet, so full of courtesy!"
Really, this tired tactic of intentionally distorting people's posts while ignoring the main point isn't helpful. If I posted: "I love lasagna," then someone trolling would follow up with "Oh, so you hate the french people!'"
Let me remind you of something - a person posted a list of men with the highest jumps. What did you do? Attempt to discredit the skater at the top of the list with an insult. When people achieve something they spend time training for, don't punch them in the face for getting there. It's also what so many people are doing to Shaidorov, as if somehow he doesn't deserve his gold medal. He deserves his gold medal just as much as the speed skater who watched the entire field go down on the ice and by avoiding it all, he skated across the finish line free and clear to take the gold. It's a frequently replayed Olympic moment in history for that reason. The overwhelming favorite to win that race was Apollo Ohno. The race was certainly wild to watch and makes for a great metaphor.
I 100% agree with you, there's no difference between character assassination and commenting on people's skating at all. What are you replying to me about?
I agree with you that they are equally valuable discussions to be had on a skating website. Sure, skaters get comments about their skating all the time from coaches and judges, and are far more immune to criticism there and are supposed to be by the time they get to the Olympics, but I agree that all comments, whether personal or otherwise, must affect them equally.
This is amusing, after you tell me I'm "distorting" your post. Saying "Adam Siao Him Fa does achieve the highest jump, but it doesn't take into account the flawed technique he uses" is... an insult?
Stats mean something in context of how the measurement is made. Just plain numbers need to have additional context. If you were to look at Siao Him Fa's jumps, they would be done with flawed technique, which causes him to have less distance usually. Do you have the distance measurements on those stats? You do not. And yet, here you are.
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No.....? It's commenting on their skating (I think it's overly harsh but no worse than many of their predecessors been labelled) not on them as people*. I don't have actually agree with 'most' but have thought and said that this quad has been weaker in the men; maybe that will change as they work up over the coming years, and also as some juniors I have loved move up.
(*And some of them are lovely people, others not so much but being a lovely person is not a prerequisite for sporting success after all.)
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