Olympics Over, World Cup in 100 Days
I am having Olympic withdraws. I've liked watching the olympics since 1984 LA. I prefer the winter over the summer. Not sure why, but I do. It could be the skating, but I also like watching the other stuff too. I can't stress enough how much I hated NBC's broadcast. I saw what kind of coverage Canada and the UK got and was instantly jealous. They
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Extremely happy to see Evan win gold. I have to admit, I didn't think that would happen. I partially understand why Plushenko was upset, but he won gold under the new scoring system, so he had to have known how it worked. Maybe he should have studied it more when developing his program. I see nothing wrong with Evan aiming for bonus points and trying to obtain the maximum amount of points he was able to put in his routine. Simply put, Plushenko, in both his routine and attitude completely failed.
You know I like Patrick Chan, but was surprised to see that his score was higher than Johnny Weir's because I thought Johnny did a good job and Patrick didn't do as well as I had hoped. However, I also think the reason why Patrick scored higher than Johnny is for the same reason why Evan won over Plushenko. Patrick concentrates on his strengths and aims for maximum points in elements other than jumps.
I loved the Canadian ice dance couple. great flamenco. The Americans that won silver are okay too and I liked their bollywood routine. I totally thought the Russians would have won, but I am glad they didn't. That original dance of theirs was horrible. I've always liked the original dance more than the free dance and I know it was usually the strongest program for the pairs I liked such as Torvil and Dean and Bourne and Kraatz. Sad to see Belbin and Agosto not make it on the podium, but they did well. I can see that their pace is slower and lifts aren't as good as the others.
I really like Yu-Na Kim and she definitely deserved gold, but thought her scores were somewhat overinflated. I like Mao Asada too and thought her program was more firey than Yu-Na's, but I was surprised to see her mess up the way she did. Her triple axels are excellent though and she can pull them off better than some of the men. The scores seemed rather low to me though and I wondered if they did that to make some room for Joannie to possibly get a silver if Joannie were to have skated cleanly. I am glad Joannie got a medal as I hoped since 4 years ago in Torino that she would get at least a bronze for Canada. I'm not surprised the Americans didn't medal, but glad they did well enough. I don't care much for Rachel Flatt, but I do like Mirai and she's getting better. I think she will improve over time. But I agree...there will never be another Michelle. :(
Oh, I was also so happy to see Shen and Zhao get a gold. I've been following them since Nagano and I was completely surprised to hear they were coming back out of retirement for the olympics. Thought their chances would be toast since it would be their 4th olympics and considered elderly at this point. The other Chinese pair had an excellent long program, but Shen and Zhao had high points from the short.
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Patrick... Totally adore him, but he definitely should not have been scored about Weir. I think Belbin and Agosto just got too comfy being the top US team and let their training slip. It just seemed completely off, imo.
Rachel Flatt...erf. Not a fan. Mirai rocks, though!
Shen and Zhao put in the work and skated so great... They definitely deserved to win. No doubt.
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