Whew. Glad that's over. No, this is not the costume he wore. But since I couldn't find any decent pics? I chose the one that started it all from January 2004. Sooo sparkly....
Well? It was a tiebreaker. A TIEBREAKER. When does THAT happen? If a tiebreaker had happened in 1988, Brian Orser, and not Brian Boitano, would have been Olympic Champion. Yeesh...YOU explain this new scoring system! I don't get it!
Lysacek knocked J out of gold by the technical score. Ok. J's quad was a bit two-footed, with a slick "tick" of the ice during the landing, but overall, his edges were pretty smooth. That super-slo-mo really helps.
In Ladies, USFSA continues to eat their own young with a crappo rule: you're too young at 14 to go to Worlds. So, Kimmie, who won no medal gets sent to Sweden. So does BeBe Liang, a strong jumper. Only Ashley Wagner, the bronze winner, will be the only medalist who gets to attend worlds with a medal. Sooo redundant. This rule was invented due to media coverage of teenagers taking away the older girls' chances at winning. Then Tara Lipinski had a hip replacement at the age of 20, so they said, "Are we killing them with technical requirements?" Well, of course you are. If you say "Double jumps are ok, but triples still get more points, " WHAT DO THINK A 13 YR OLD WILL DO? Not a double axel, but a triple toe/flip/insert jump here. That seems to be contradictory, doesn't it?
So, a cutie from California wins at age 14, and gets sent to Junior Worlds. HUH? If she won the gold at the senior ranks, why is she given the option of Jr. anything? Ridiculous.
But back to J: he did redeem himself from last year's bronze by getting a silver this year. That's an improvement. What a weekend!
And now we're in retrograde. What a strange Monday this is...
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