It's interesting how skaters I never liked all that much (Sasha Cohen, Elvis Stojko) have jumped on the Plushenko train, while skaters I have more love and respect for are saying some smart things in defense of Lysacek. Timmy Goebel, I am sorry I rooted against you in '02, you were totally robbed at 2000 Nats,
you are fabulous at explaining why
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DomShabs... did not do any of that. In fact, I feel like their OD doesn't meet the demands of the rhythm designation for this season, which states that the OD should be based on a folk or country dance. (And, by implication, not on some vague Noble Savage fantasy involving leafy skirts.)
In IM, my friends and I were talking about how nervous Tanith and Ben looked. Like it's gone to their heads that they're at the Olympics. That might have cost them a point or two; I think stiffness interfered with the quality of their lifts.
Can't agree with you on Virtue & Moir; I thought they were dead even with Davis & White, whom I prefer stylistically. It's really not a patriotic thing (although I admit to being swayed by thinking Davis & White are much prettier).
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As for Tanith and Belbin, they did seem a little nervous. I don't know if it's the Olympics themselves so much, as more that for the first two years after Torino it was pretty much a given that they were coming to Vancouver to get their gold. And then came the injuries, and W&D beating them, and this is their last Olympics and it's just all of that is getting to them. I hope they can just put it out of their heads and deliver an amazing routine.
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