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More Skating
Nov. 3rd, 2019 01:00 pmIt seems as if there is now an group of fans railing about about overscored Nathan Chen is that have managed to organize themselves into a "Fair Skating Union" and pay to have their tweets promoted into our timelines! (From what I understand, they claim to not be after anyone in particular, but go after him too much for this to be true.) I try my best to avoid the conspiracy theorists in this fandom; I have been in for well over a decade and seen too many of them for most of them to impress me much. At least they cite exactly where he's supposedly being overscored, which indicates they've put more thought into it than most bother. But I am still all too aware how many of them wouldn't care if he hadn't committed the crime of beating their beloved Yuzuru Hanyu at Worlds last spring. And I would have thanked them to leave my damn timeline alone.
I am really more lamenting the quad invasion into ladies skating. Even this week, when we had Alena Kostornaia winning instead, I was all too aware it would've been pretty hard for her to beat the two quadders, when they can hit 100 in the tech score and she can't. Especially when the judges weren't even willing to give her higher PCS than Zagitova, which ought to be recognized as patently wrong. Meanwhile, it's not looking like most of Russia's ladies will have a chance at Worlds, which makes me wish Medvedeva had skated better in Canada.
The young Russians seem to be taking over in pairs, too, although of course they've yet to deal with Sui & Han, and anyway, them toppling their elder countrymen might be just as well. More concerning is the fact that Denney & Frazier have now beaten Cain-Gribble & LeDuc at both of their events, and the Knierims were the highest-scoring American pair from these last two weeks. I suppose Nationals may go to whoever skates cleanest.
At least the dance results left me happier, last week's pair of surprises especially. Of course, some will insist Gilles & Poirier are now being politicked to the top, and it's even possible they have been. But when they've also gotten good enough to deserve it anyway, it's hard to complain too much.
I am really more lamenting the quad invasion into ladies skating. Even this week, when we had Alena Kostornaia winning instead, I was all too aware it would've been pretty hard for her to beat the two quadders, when they can hit 100 in the tech score and she can't. Especially when the judges weren't even willing to give her higher PCS than Zagitova, which ought to be recognized as patently wrong. Meanwhile, it's not looking like most of Russia's ladies will have a chance at Worlds, which makes me wish Medvedeva had skated better in Canada.
The young Russians seem to be taking over in pairs, too, although of course they've yet to deal with Sui & Han, and anyway, them toppling their elder countrymen might be just as well. More concerning is the fact that Denney & Frazier have now beaten Cain-Gribble & LeDuc at both of their events, and the Knierims were the highest-scoring American pair from these last two weeks. I suppose Nationals may go to whoever skates cleanest.
At least the dance results left me happier, last week's pair of surprises especially. Of course, some will insist Gilles & Poirier are now being politicked to the top, and it's even possible they have been. But when they've also gotten good enough to deserve it anyway, it's hard to complain too much.
