figure skating?

[zebu]

anyone watching figure skating here? now is the world chapionship. who r ur favs?

[forre]

I do, as I've been doing since I was 6-7 years old.
My favs?
Men: I hope for Lambiel this year and for Weir in the Olympics.
Pairs: Russians and Chinese look impressive, esp. chinese with their super high twists. Tatiana Totmianina/Maxim Marinin are my favs.
Ladies: Slutskaya looks strong but I really never liked her a lot.
Dance: No current favs. Still looking for some one like Anissina/Peizerat but the current dancers don't seem to reach there yet. Tatiana Navka/Roman Kostomarov should win though. I'll take a closer look at them.

[zebu]

i love watching skating best to watch for me is always mens competition and when plushenko is skating..uff hes the god of skating. he fell in short program , he said he didnt practice enough cos of some injury or something. i hope he does better in free. one other guy i like sandhu, he skates for canada, too bad he always messes something up, but just watching him hes too hot. lambiels spins r great, well see if hell skate as good in free as in short, now that hes leading. maybe too much pressure for him.

ur fav pair won tonight

[forre]

Plushenko withdrew from the FP. His days are over I believe. Never thought of him as God of skating. He was just always lacking on something for me. So what are the bets? Lambiel's nerves should hold and I missed the performance of my little Weir. Figure skating is great to watch.

[Uhaku]

I have always like Slute. But I kinda lost track with ice skating since last year... Shames Shames...

[freddie]

They are spectacular... but so unknown to my mind. At least as individuals. Hmmm... is Michele Kwan still competing?! *walks away in shame*

[zebu]

just watched european championship, women fs, very nice performances, much better than last year. loved sokolova, she finished 2nd

[xmad]

Originally Posted by zebu

just watched european championship

me too.It was sooo great.
Sokolova,is so gorgeous.Her performance was fantastic.
Slutskaya's performance was great too.I love both of them.
Sokolova & Slutskaya

[Lux]

i don't follow anyone but it's fun to watch

[Rachel]

My sister used to do this professionally when she was about 15...ahhhh...fun times...

[spyretto]

yeah same...It's on Eurosport too so I watch it alongside the tennis...and the darts...and the snooker..and the basketball..and the...skiing..and the football...and the something else which I can't remember.
Any sports are good...

oh yeah, I remembered...the world's strongest man

which brings the following question: what is that outfit that Sharapova's wearing?

[PowerPuff Grrl]

I watch figure skating, I kind of got it from my Dad. A lot of immigrants, I find, have a strange fascination with it. I don't really blame them though, it is probably the second most hypnotizing sport... next to curling, of course.

Anyhoo, I saw some competition that was in Japan. The only thing that struck out was the Women's competition, it was pretty much Russia v. Japan. And Japan kicked ass! There was this one skater who's probably like 14 years old or something, and she was doing triple axles soooo effortlessly. Everybody else was only doing doubles. And then the commentator said that because she's too young she'll have to wait for the 2010 Winter Games. It just pissed me off because even though she wiped the floor with her program, everybody else can compete in the Olympics but her.

I like the fact that there are other countries now getting involved in figure skating, like Japan and Israel. Though I'm not too sure if Japan always had figure skaters, I'm pretty sure they weren't considered as being serious competitors until now.

Originally Posted by Freddie

Michele Kwan still competing?! *walks away in shame*

Oooh wait, I know this one!
She hasn't competed in any competition but still wants to compete in the Olympics, just because. What the hell is it with Team America and their sense of entitlement when it comes to the Olympics; it's like "bitch, it doesn't work that way!"

PS: I don't know why, but I love that the title of the thread has a question mark.

[KillaQueen]

Offtop:

Originally Posted by spyretto

the world's strongest man

woo, that rocks!!

[zebu]

plushenko

[xmad]

Originally Posted by taty994945

In the ladies, it was sort of a shock to see Slutskaya and Cohen fall.

Yeah,it was.
It was sad to see that Slutskaya didnt get the gold medal.

[forre]

Originally Posted by xmad

It was sad to see that Slutskaya didnt get the gold medal.

It wasn't possible even if she didn't fall. Arakawa hit her personal best with her free and thus had no competition. I'm happy for the sake of this sport that Arakawa won. A great performance from a great skater!

[fanoff]

figure skating is one of the sports i enjoy to watch.especially Pluskenko,who is truly the knig on ice,does his work perfectly.i saw the same thing in the olympics.he did finish the contest 27 points ahead the second lambiel.and our girl tuğba karademir came 21st.i think its good for a skater in a country which doesnt take much care about skating.

[forre]

Originally Posted by fanoff

figure skating is one of the sports i enjoy to watch.especially Pluskenko,who is truly the knig on ice,does his work perfectly.i saw the same thing in the olympics.he did finish the contest 27 points ahead

The only guy who could give him a match is Yagudin. Too bad that he quit competing. Even his 4 years old performances could get at least silver at this Olympics. If you've never seen them, do it. You won't regret.

Yagudin, 2002 Olympic Games.
Winter - short programme
Man in the iron mask - free programme
14 mb, *.rar file. The quality is bad but the files are light.
Yagudin_Olymp2002.rar

[11Russia]

I love Figure Skating, such a beautiful sport...
Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov did a great job!!! I'm so glad the won gold.

Slutskaya the queen without the crawl... But Japan deserve the gold...
but not USA the silver ¬.¬

Lambiel was my favorite I didn't like Plushenko very much...

[forre]

Originally Posted by 11Russia

But Japan deserve the gold...
but not USA the silver ¬.¬

Why not silver for USA? After the short programme, both Slutskaya and Cohen were almost at a tie. Then some statistics on their free programme, which was won by Cohen:

Cohen vs Slutskaya (*)
Base technical programme value: 57.5 (53.8)
Deductions totally: - 8 (- 4.43)

Programme components
Skating Skills: 7.75 (7.96)
Transitions: 7.57 (7.39)
Performance/Execution: 7.86 (7.79)
Choreography: 7.79 (7.71)
Interpretation: 8.04 (7.82)
________________________________
Total segment score: 116.63 (114.74)

Conclusion: Cohen's base tech. value was higher than Slutskaya's. Cohen got more deduction for her mistakes than Slutskaya, which is understandable but the quality of her elements was higher, so technically she got 55.22 and Slutskaya 53.87. Cohen got a little higher score for programme components listed above and it was deserved as Cohen gave a better artistic impression.

My honest opinion is that everything was fair enough.