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Like you said: war in MEDIAS, not on ice ... and there does not "fair fight"So the war is on. Started from certain coach and the medias. So what?! Bring them on, it's a great show on and off ice.
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EDIT: I find this text right now... finally, one "normal" man
http://vancouver2010.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/abbott-says-plushenko-is-just-another-competitor/
January 4, 2010, 8:06 pm, By JULIET MACUR
Abbott Says Plushenko is ‘Just Another Competitor’
Jeremy Abbott, the 2009 United States national figure skating champion, isn’t intimidated by the Russian skater Yevgeny Plushenko.
So what if Plushenko, 27, is headed for his third Olympics after winning a gold medal at the 2006 Turin Games and a silver medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games? And so what if Plushenko, in his first season after three years away from the sport, set world-best marks last month at the Russian national championship? Plushenko scored 271.59 points total, including 100.09 in his short program. Both marks are unofficial world records because the International Skating Union doesn’t count national events in its record books.
“Scores at nationals across the world are always inflated; it’s always kind of that way, it’s always kind of been that way,” Abbott said Monday, on a teleconference in advance of the United States figure skating national championships that start in Spokane, Wash., next week. The nationals will serve as the Olympic trials for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
“The judges are all from your country who all want to push you up and help you,” Abbott said of the scoring at nationals....
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