-GOE for two footed salchow, blade assisted toe jumps is the most never applied rule by ISU. Everyone cheats. Malinin is the only one now with one footed 4S and real 4F. 4L. It's a step back from Chen level that current OC has cheated technique. It's totally ISU fault. They don't punish cheaters, even if their rules say they must.
2026 Olympics: Men's Free Skate
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I hope that Ilia is going to be OK. He is truly a great skater. All of his jumps are textbook with no excessive prerotation. And yes - he can do all 6 types of quads with textbook technique! Ilia is the only skater who landed quad axel in competition. Only 5 skaters have quad lutz with textbook technique - Yuzuru Hanyu, Nathan Chen, Ilia Malinin, Boyang Jin and Mikhail Kolyada. Only two 2 skaters have quad flip with textbook technique - Nathan Chen and Ilia Malinin.
Yuma Kagiyama prerotates his lutz and flip. Actually around 90 percent of the men who do quad lutz and quad flip excessively prerotate them.
I hope that Ilia is going to be OK. He is truly a great skater. All of his jumps are textbook with no excessive prerotation. And yes - he can do all 6 types of quads with textbook technique! Ilia is the only skater who landed quad axel in competition. Only 5 skaters have quad lutz with textbook technique - Yuzuru Hanyu, Nathan Chen, Ilia Malinin, Boyang Jin and Mikhail Kolyada. Only two 2 skaters have quad flip with textbook technique - Nathan Chen and Ilia Malinin.
Yuma Kagiyama prerotates his lutz and flip. Actually around 90 percent of the men who do quad lutz and quad flip excessively prerotate them.
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I feel like had Nathan come back he could very well have won this Olympics. I probably wouldn't have said that at the beginning of the season though. Benefits of hindsight.
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Ilia on today show now. Tara Lipinski and Scott Hamilton doing back peddling on statement stated regarding Ilia.
How one moment isn't defining.
Wow . I could say more regarding them and their ogm how it defined them and their future abd changed it. Hoe one moment defined michelke kwan career
Or othet skaters that didn't win
How one moment isn't defining.
Wow . I could say more regarding them and their ogm how it defined them and their future abd changed it. Hoe one moment defined michelke kwan career
Or othet skaters that didn't win
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I think it's fair to say that without the OGM, Tara Lipinski wouldn't have anything close to the career she has today. She would of course be remembered for her Olympic, US, and World titles but IDK if the broadcasting opportunities would have come her way if she hadn't won the Olympics. In that sense, the Olympics were indeed a defining moment for her.
On the flip side, Michelle Kwan's Olympic "losses" (she did win silver in 1998 and bronze in 2002) haven't defined her or her career.
Michelle went on to win several US and World championships after Nagano. She's beloved in the skating community and is widely regarded as one of the GOATs -- not just in women's skating but across the board in all figure skating disciplines. She also served as US ambassador to Belize during the Biden administration, long after she retired from competitive skating.
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I'd have to go back to the article I found by Googling, but I think it said her GI system rushed everything through so quickly for so long that it was a nutritional lack. Even though she ate normally, her organs reacted as if she was a starvation victim. Although she managed to quit the habit, it was too late and her heart in particular had been permanently weakened, and failed after some exertion.
I should, by the way, have used the blanket term "eating disorder" as she had both anorexia and bulimia.
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Yes, it is dangerous and yes, it has an impact on performance. That's a terrible and tempting combo for athletes who have to minimize food intake since childhood. I am just not sure what all athletes will do if they are genuinely constipated and laxatives are banned. I'm sure WADA is aware.
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Wow. I agree that Shaidarov benefited from the other men's mistakes, but there's no need to be so nasty about his medal.
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I guess if some athletes truly need them, they would need a special exemption.
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That would be a lot of exemptions. Laxatives are also pretty variable... cue in a sudden demand for eggplants.
How exactly did Malinin make history?
He didn’t and the Olympic champ did with his amazing 3 axel euler to quad sal combo. He is the only man in the world to do that. Its pretty special combo
Losing 72 points in a free skate is definitely history-making and really something.
The worst meltdown ever. He is doing quite well with what has happened. I am sure he will be back. This sport can't afford to have an OC who scored worse than the previous one.
Point wise it's not even the most expensive one. Quad with 3A sequence costs the same. Do you know how many Russians landed it?
What is that? Trolling? There are skaters who lost more points to the winner than Malinin.
How 5 quads of Kazakhstan differ from 5 quads of any other country? Or 7 quads. It's Olympic history we are talking about, not Kazakhstan. Shaidarov couldn't even break 300 and got worse score than Chen or Malinin as a current WC. It's an embarrassing result for Olympics, not history making.
As for Kazakhstan, translating from polite Urmanov language, their training facilities are from Soviet era. If they start building something new, then it would be a history making win for Kazakhstan too.
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Neither could Malinin. Or Gumennik, whose skates were rather vacuous.
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