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Oh I dont doubt that for a second.... In fact, isnt there a famous pic of Tanya Harding putting her boot up on the boards for the judges to see? Wasnt there a male skater that actually used a competitor's boot in a program?
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It is more believeable than seeing Tara Lipinski doing a TJMAXX ad (eye rolls)
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That was American pairs skater, Mark Ladwig. At the 2011 Four Continents, his left skate heel broke during the short program, but he and Amanda Evora were able to resume the program within the allowed three minutes after Canadian Rudi Swiegers lent his own boot to Ladwig.
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They changed that. I posted about it in the Edge
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*bows in honor of your great knowledge of skating trivia*. I’m not worthy.
I was happy with how well the guys skated today under such enormous pressure! I'm sad for the 5 guys (who are among the skaters I enjoy) who did not qualify for FS. If it was up to me (thankfully it isn't 
), I would let all the skaters do both programs at Olympics; it's one in 4 years event and everybody deserves the opportunity for redemption in FS if the SP didn't go as expected.
My favourites: Jun, Adam S., Kevin, who had the best skates after a rough season for them, Yuma for being always a treat to watch (too bad about the 3A), Deniss for his beautiful attention to every move, Matteo and Daniel for making the best of skating on home ice and many more!
I was impressed with Ilia not only for his technical power, which was expected, but also for having nerves of steel after his performances in the team event were less than he expected.
Cannot wait for FS!
), I would let all the skaters do both programs at Olympics; it's one in 4 years event and everybody deserves the opportunity for redemption in FS if the SP didn't go as expected.My favourites: Jun, Adam S., Kevin, who had the best skates after a rough season for them, Yuma for being always a treat to watch (too bad about the 3A), Deniss for his beautiful attention to every move, Matteo and Daniel for making the best of skating on home ice and many more!
I was impressed with Ilia not only for his technical power, which was expected, but also for having nerves of steel after his performances in the team event were less than he expected.
Cannot wait for FS!
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That was a low level competition. In the era of upper quads only 5 skaters of 30 performed them. 3 of them did 2 upper quads- Malinin, Grassl, Gumennik. The Russian was sunk by no rating, no flag, etc., with PCS lower than Egadze, lol. Yuma and Co. did what guys in the last century could do. It's not what sport should be about.
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Thank you! My old memory is so poor...Mark was such a funny guy...I would always sit in the front row during event practices and he would say funny things when he sailed by me like, "I like your shirt" but he would never look at me! LOL!
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Many of us have wondered the same about Tara L.I come to wonder if the commentator is getting paid per spoken word
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Me too. I cant stand movies with sad endings....I dont want to go to movies and be depressed...I get on line and check out plots before seeing a movie....
He's slowed down his skating to land the jumps.
Even last year, you could see him heading in with more speed - because he was still going for the 4Lz. And the season before that too, with the disastrous SP at worlds.
All fine, seeing how he's getting penalized on PCS for it. Just noting that there's a technical reason behind it.
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Max did fairly well and good for him.
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The Canadian judge did.
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I think the replies you're getting are exaggerating a bit. I do think Adam is very sloppy and chaotic much of the time. I'm really not a fan - and much of his choreography is best described as "corny" IMO. And I think you're right - he goes at one pace with the performance, and beyond that he frontloaded this program, and I'm not a fan.
That said, I think he did the best step sequence here in terms of performance. He also does tend to involve full body movement in his step sequences usually, which is surely a difficult display of skating skill. It's just not too hard to be beating the skaters of this quadrennial on that score...
Cha shouldn't be behind Grassl (but then I disagree with much of these scores and placements) - but just IMO, Cha's SP from the previous Olympics was better, so I wouldn't really be making a comparison (even ignoring the component score change).
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Gummenik wasn’t that great - and he did a quad double which sunk him. Still did pretty well all things considered. Sorry this isn’t Russia where he’d get 45 PCS for that skate, lolz.
And he’s fortunate a provision was made that even allows him to compete here.
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No but PCS lower than Egadze is really a joke of the day.
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<=== and this Canadian fan would have had Adam first too.The Canadian judge did.
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Carol and Kurt also loved Adam.
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