slutskayafan21: "Bringing up Cohen-Kwan examples is a poor choice anyway, since Cohen and Kwan were always fairly close in stature and momentum going into events at all times from 03-05; and Hughes absolutely never would have been seen as the chosen one over either of those two, even in the 03 season, I have no idea where you get that idea. I am not predicting that to be the case when it comes to Weir-Lysacek, which would make it totally different then Cohen-Kwan. Anyway Weir and Lysacek are not the equivalent of Cohen and Kwan in their mutual primes, they are not as prominent on a World stage, so you are better off backing one more then the other, and as you can see by many of the responses other sense that backing going more towards Lysacek at the moment. As somebody said earlier my thread is the 3rd started on the subject here, that is telling."
I think it is a perfect parallel. Weir is now a 3-time US champion who had consistently beaten Lysacek even as a Junior. Cohen was Kwan's main challenger, just as Lysacek is Weir's, and at 2004-2005 Nationals, Cohen was the one with the superior international standing.
It was your rationale which said Lysacek was a cinch to win the 2007 US championship on a basis of his international results. The same could have been said of Cohen in 2004-2005. As it turned out, it was skating, not international results, which won the Ladies championship.
Weir comes to Nationals loaded for bear and delivers, while Lysacek can't quite put it together. Perhaps Lysacek seems to have as much of a mental block when it comes to Nationals as you say Weir has at Worlds.
I think it is a perfect parallel. Weir is now a 3-time US champion who had consistently beaten Lysacek even as a Junior. Cohen was Kwan's main challenger, just as Lysacek is Weir's, and at 2004-2005 Nationals, Cohen was the one with the superior international standing.
It was your rationale which said Lysacek was a cinch to win the 2007 US championship on a basis of his international results. The same could have been said of Cohen in 2004-2005. As it turned out, it was skating, not international results, which won the Ladies championship.
Weir comes to Nationals loaded for bear and delivers, while Lysacek can't quite put it together. Perhaps Lysacek seems to have as much of a mental block when it comes to Nationals as you say Weir has at Worlds.