ISU OUT TO BOGGLE OUR BRAINS - JAPAN OPEN EDITION
From Tony Wheeler's blog (Btw hai Tony hai)
The Japan Open and Evgeny Plushenko: Sealing His Fate?
Photo courtesy daylife.com A Formspring question about Evgeny Plushenko competing at the Japan Open pro-am in October got me thinking about something.
First, this ISU communication from August 23rd says that Plushenko did not file any appeal against the decision to declare him ineligible for ISU competition, so "members are obliged to take note". Plushenko and coach Alexei Mishin have done recent interviews where they both talk competing in the 2014 Sochi Games, even expressing this after the ISU banning.
So now we flash forward to October 2nd. The Japan Open is the only pro-am competition left on the skating schedule, and Plushenko is entered as part of team Europe (along with Laura Lepisto, Sarah Meier, and Michal Brezina). If the ISU is saying that he is no longer an amateur, he would be entering this competition as a professional. Competing here means there is absolutely no way he will end up in Sochi, courts or not (unless for some weird reason the ISU allows reinstatements as they did in 1994 and 1996-- not likely).
If Plushenko and his camp truly are set on Sochi and he believes he can keep up for another 3+ years, don't be surprised to see him withdraw from the Japan Open in the coming weeks.
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It seems that there is much confusion over how ISU ruling actually works in practice, since we don't actually know whether he'll take part in JO as an amateur or a professional. Plushy himself seems quite confused as to why they're letting him go to JO (of course, they might be letting him skate to lose his actual chance of Sochi, but that seems way too petty and vindictive, even from ISU).
I want Plushy to make a careful decision on whether to participate in these 'grey area' of ISU-sanctioned competitions, but one thing is clear - ISU = UNFREE BITCHES. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUU!!!!
LOL WITH MIRAI AND POSSIBLY PLUSHY OUT, TEAM JAPAN IS REALLY GOING TO PWN JAPAN OPEN LMAO
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ADDITIONAL MINI-NEWS = FLORENT AMODIO HAS ANNOUNCED THAT HIS NEW COACH IS NIKOLAI MOROZOV. RUN FLORENT RUN O I C (also from Tony's blog, TYFYT)
The Japan Open and Evgeny Plushenko: Sealing His Fate?
Photo courtesy daylife.com A Formspring question about Evgeny Plushenko competing at the Japan Open pro-am in October got me thinking about something.
First, this ISU communication from August 23rd says that Plushenko did not file any appeal against the decision to declare him ineligible for ISU competition, so "members are obliged to take note". Plushenko and coach Alexei Mishin have done recent interviews where they both talk competing in the 2014 Sochi Games, even expressing this after the ISU banning.
So now we flash forward to October 2nd. The Japan Open is the only pro-am competition left on the skating schedule, and Plushenko is entered as part of team Europe (along with Laura Lepisto, Sarah Meier, and Michal Brezina). If the ISU is saying that he is no longer an amateur, he would be entering this competition as a professional. Competing here means there is absolutely no way he will end up in Sochi, courts or not (unless for some weird reason the ISU allows reinstatements as they did in 1994 and 1996-- not likely).
If Plushenko and his camp truly are set on Sochi and he believes he can keep up for another 3+ years, don't be surprised to see him withdraw from the Japan Open in the coming weeks.
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It seems that there is much confusion over how ISU ruling actually works in practice, since we don't actually know whether he'll take part in JO as an amateur or a professional. Plushy himself seems quite confused as to why they're letting him go to JO (of course, they might be letting him skate to lose his actual chance of Sochi, but that seems way too petty and vindictive, even from ISU).
I want Plushy to make a careful decision on whether to participate in these 'grey area' of ISU-sanctioned competitions, but one thing is clear - ISU = UNFREE BITCHES. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUU!!!!
LOL WITH MIRAI AND POSSIBLY PLUSHY OUT, TEAM JAPAN IS REALLY GOING TO PWN JAPAN OPEN LMAO
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ADDITIONAL MINI-NEWS = FLORENT AMODIO HAS ANNOUNCED THAT HIS NEW COACH IS NIKOLAI MOROZOV. RUN FLORENT RUN O I C (also from Tony's blog, TYFYT)