by whitebamboo » 28 Dec 2013, 02:31
I feel like I've been going crazy the last few days. The hope in my mind came alive, died, came alive, died, back and forth...But right now I think it is alive again. We'll wait and see if it changes.
I am kind of confused about what Plushy really said regarding the Euros in the press conference after the LP? I noticed that a lot of press came out very swiftly saying that he said he's not going to Euros, but on the other hand, I saw some other reports saying that what he really said was that he had originally not planned to go to Euros, but now he was reconsidering. Now what he said at the awards ceremony seems to support the second scenario.
With what he said at the same press conference regarding only going to the team competition, again, I noticed that a lot of media immediately picked up and reported it, and Piseev first reacted to it by saying he supported the decision, then turned around and said that Plushy didn't know the rules...
Tatjana Flade already said on FSU that Plushy didn't know the real changes to the rules. And I think right now, this fact is actually to his advantage. I remember that before, he said that he would skate four programs or give the chance over to a younger skater. But that was before the proposed change or clarification to the rules, which said that it would require an injury on the part of the original skater in order to switch skater. Tatjana Flade said that Plushy was under the impression that Russia was allowed to have one skater for the team competition and one for the individual.
I think it's not a big deal to say that he was wrong about the rules. After all, lots of people involved with skating, and skating fans, say all sorts of wrong things about the rules regarding the team competition. And Plushy has been concentrating on training; he couldn't have been expected to keep up with all the nuances about every piece of news (which was around Nov. 19-20). But I do wonder what (or who) gave him that wrong impression...
This is just me guessing, but right now I suspect what he was thinking at the post-LP press conference was that he would go to the Euros, prove his right to go to Sochi there, but give one of the two different spots (as he wrongly thought at the point) to Kovtun. We all know his incredibly generous and honorable and dare I say sometimes foolish (in a good way) heart, he might just have thought that Kovtun deserved it, and that it would help the younger skater. He did not know that it would require that he be or pretend to be injured after the team competition. I think he never thought of it as giving up, or as conceding defeat. But given that it was all said under a wrong premise, I really feel that what he said about skating only the team competition should be disregarded by now.
I think they have not given up even now, and therefore we fans should not give up, either! (Though I do have to say I am still really, really scared. I don't understand at all how Mishin could dare to not let him go to the Euros. I am praying that he knows something we don't know at all, and I am praying that something is really, really solid...)
P. S. I think in my previous post on the last page, I misread Mishin' words before the coaches' council meeting about deciding whether to go to the Euros. But then again, I've been misreading a lot of things in the last two days...So this whole post could be totally wrong again in another couple of hours. But if there is even one shred of hope remaining, I will cling to it!
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