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Championship Registered:: 12-19-2000 Posts: 1328 | I'm a long-time fan of Michelle Kwan's and although it's sad that she is jinxed at the Olympics, I certainly think the result was warranted. Although she can skate so much better, and even had a triple-triple combination at one point, she seemed slow and fell on that triple flip jump. On the night of the long program, she just didn't pull out a winning performance. She's got four World Championship titles at this point. so it's not like like her career was a waste. I also feel a little badly for Irina Slutskaya, who all year has been considered to be Kwan's biggest rival. Slutskaya did not skate her long program as well as she could have, either. I think that if she had skated it as well as she did her short, the combination of the two would have won it all for her. What is "sad", as jpelg asks, isn't that these two women didn't win gold medals, but that neither of them showed their skating off to the best of their ability. But as everyone who has ever competed knows, sometimes you just can't get it together. Sarah Hughes put together two performances that were good enough to come in first place. And her long program had what it took to be a winner: clean, skated with speed and energy throughout, high technical content, good presentation. In all, I can't quibble about the result, and was very suprised when the Russian's filed a protest saying that Slutskaya should have won the gold. I think that was just 'payback' for the whole pairs debacle. Laura |
Championship Registered:: 07-11-2001 Posts: 3144 | It's called "sour grapes." Their threat to pull out of the Winter Games and not attend the next Summer Games: "I'm going home and I'm taking my toys with me! Waah, waah, waah!" |
Championship Registered:: 07-11-2001 Posts: 3144 | quote:Puhleeze! Hughes skated 2nd in the last half-dozen, and all of the top 3 skaters (I keep wanting to say "dancers") had yet to skate. Her performance was the best up to that point in the evening. It was probably the best performance of her life, all of which her coach had probably seen. Don't you think Wagner would know that Hughes had just skated the best she'd ever done, and that up to that point she'd been the best skater of the evening? Give her a break for being happy for her student and hoping she could move up in the standings. I'm sure at that point she wasn't thinking gold was likely; she probably was just hoping for a bronze or silver. |
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