Basically he's always nervous before competition and I think this is a common sense that nearly all athletes are terribly nervous before such a large competition. According to Orser, Hanyu was nervous but not anything unusual. Hanyu himself even said he's quite clam before the show. Probably they missed something, but again, I dunno why we, fans, saw Hanyu like 15 minutes a day (or even less) can tell more than his coach team or even himself? We don't need to always agree with our little prince and his coaches but at least, that conclusion should be drawn with enough evidence.
It's easy to rationalize an argument when we think back and match the nuances to the result. Must there be a necessary causal relationship? No.
Hanyu was emotional to an extent that his facial expression of his ending pose was being teased as a face of devil after NHK SP last year but he made it again in FS. He's not doing very well during the last practice before SP in WC this year also, but we can't say the SP result was bad. Meanwhile, Last year, he was not doing anything weird in practice sessions before FS, but he lost finally.
Don't even mention his lots of practice sessions during lots of competitions he's taken part in previous years. He's not the roller-coaster but he's not definitely stable when we are talking about his performance in practice.
According to his own words, there's a problem of 'unbalance between physical and mental status.' So I am not saying he's perfect or no need to improve, it's just, to me, he knows the causes and it absolutely no evidence showing there are anything as serious as some kind oh mental crisis that let him breakdown in the future.
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Fragile porcelain, wrap him up in cotton wool
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