Medal Oriented

[Linny]

Just a fun way to find out if GS members are medal oriented (without bringing the country of your residence into it). So, quick, quick, on your honor, don't look it up anywhere, hit post reply and name any skater who placed 4th in any major contest. Go ahead, see if you can do it! Then, come back and see which ones other GS posters named.
Linny

 

[CDMM1991]

Michelle Kwan- 2005 World Championships
Evan Lysacek,Fumie Suguri- 2006 Olympics
Takeshi Honda, Sasha Cohen- 2002 Olympics

 

[Mathman]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

 

[nymkfan51]

Michelle Kwan ... '05 Worlds

 

[UnsaneLily87]

Evan Lysacek--2006 Olympics

Uh....

Jenny Kirk--2005 Nat'ls (as well as toher times but I don't remember the years. She won bronze in 2004)

 

[Mathman]

Stephane Lambiel, 2004 Worlds.

 

[iluvtodd]

Todd Eldredge - 1998 Olympics

 

[MKFSfan]

Quick, as in off the top of my head!

Michelle-1995 and 2005 Worlds
Fumie-2006 Olympics
Sasha-2002 Olympics, 2002-03 Worlds
AP-2003 Nationals...wuz so robbed!
Katy-2006 Nationals!

 

[SusanBeth]

Just a fun way to find out if GS members are medal oriented (without bringing the country of your residence into it). So, quick, quick, on your honor, don't look it up anywhere, hit post reply and name any skater who placed 4th in any major contest. Go ahead, see if you can do it! Then, come back and see which ones other GS posters named.
Linny

Fumie, Evan, Pang & Tong 06 Olympics.
Kwan 05 Worlds
Sasha 03 worlds, 02 Worlds, 02 Olympics
Katy 06 US National
Kirk 05 US Nationals
Julie Lynn Holmes 72 Olympics
Denise Beillmann 1980 Olympics

 

[Jasper]

S. Meier, 2006 Europeans
K. Taylor, 2006 US Nationals
M. Ando, 2005 NHK
J. Sebestien, 2005 Europeans
M. Ando, 2004 Worlds

S. Lambiel, 2005 Europeans
F. Dambier, 2006 Europeans
M.A. Craig, 2006 4CC
N. Oda, 2005 GPF
E. Sandhu, 2004 GPF
S. Lambiel, 2004 Worlds

Just off the top of my head in the first minute.

 

[attyfan]

I think Plushy came in 4th at Worlds in 2000, and Maria Butyskaya came in 4th at Worlds in 2001. Didn't Irina come in 4th at Olys in '98? B & K at Olys in '02?

 

[Tonichelle]

Angela Nikodinov - 2002 US Nationals

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Michelle Kwan 1995 and 2005 Worlds
Fumie Suguri 2006 Olympics
Maria Butyrskaya 1998 Olympics
Sasha Cohen 2003 Worlds
Johnny Weir 2005 Worlds
Stephane Lambiel 2004 Worlds

 

[hockeyfan228]

Denise Biellman, 1980 Olympics
Judy Blumberg/Michael Siebert, 1984? Olympics
Sasha Cohen, Takeshi Honda, Bourne/Kraatz, Totmianina/Marinin, 2002 Olympics
Maria Butyrskaya, Todd Eldredge, Ina/Dungjen, Bourne/Kraatz 1998 Olympics
Sasha Cohen, Chengjiang Li, Pang/Tong, Navka/Kostomarov 2003 Worlds
Miki Ando, Stephane Lambiel, Petrova/Tikhnov, Grushina/Goncharov 2004 Worlds
Michelle Kwan, Johnny Weir, Pang/Tong, Delobel/Schoenfelder 2005 Worlds
Elena Liashenko, Stephane Lambiel, Obertas/Slavnov Grushina/Goncharov 2003 Europeans
Jenny Kirk, Matt Savoie, Hinzmann/Parchem, Stiegler/Magerovskiy 2005 US Nationals

 

[sk8m8]

Jill Trenery Calgary Olympics

 

[JonnyCoop]

OLYMPIC 4TH PLACE FINISHERS SINCE 1980 (THE ONES I CAN REMEMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD WITHOUT LOOKING UP, ANYWAY)
1984:
Tiffany Chin
Sabine Baesz & Tassilo Thierbach
Judy Blumberg & Michael Seibert
1988:
Jill Trenary
Larysa Selezneyva & Oleg Makarov
Natalia Annenko & Genrich Sretensky
Alexander Fadeev (I think)
1992:
Tonya Harding
1994:
Viktor Petrenko (I think)
1998:
Todd Eldredge
Kyoko Ina & Jason Dungjien
Shae-Lynn Bourne & Victor Kraatz
2002:
Sasha Cohen
Totmiannina & Maranin
Bourne & Kraatz

Actually, what amazes me about this post is that I'm ususally a savant when it comes to these type of things, but I geuss I gagged under the pressure....

 

[antmanb]

Maria B in the nagano Olympics
Fumie in Torino
Todd in Nagano

...erm struggling with any more!

Ant

 

[antmanb]

Acutally i have remembered one more, i think Dambier in 2004 Europeans (i think) and he was totally robbed!!

 

[Linny]

Medals oriented

It IS pretty hard. Perhaps it is because the media publishes the medal winners over and over and ignores the almost theres, or perhaps it is because some people are medal oriented as per the statement by one contraversial skater.

Dunno, don't care, just wanted to see how the great people of GS stood up. Pretty well, methinks! Thank you all for playing along with this experiment.

What truly amazes me is that not only do GS posters know their 4th place skaters, but they know how to spell their names!

Linny

 

[Spirit]

Just a fun way to find out if GS members are medal oriented (without bringing the country of your residence into it). So, quick, quick, on your honor, don't look it up anywhere, hit post reply and name any skater who placed 4th in any major contest. Go ahead, see if you can do it! Then, come back and see which ones other GS posters named.
Linny

Without looking at anyone else's posts:

2002 Winter Olympics: Sasha Cohen was 4th.

(Edited to correct a boneheaded mistake.)