cekoni wrote:I dont understand what she want to say: Russia not should send a "stars" to the Olympics, than a younger skaters (which is more persistent) ..... or to give up from Team competition, and all the attention direct to the individual medals?
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I guess what she meant is team medal is the effort of whole team instead of depending heavily on stars (you can have average but very good skaters to achieve good results from all disciplines therefore win the team competition).
The second point she made is she doubts how far the "stars" will go for the team event since they probably will reserve some strength for their single competitions.
However, her points are not really valid (not a big surprise to us
): the rules require countries attending team event send their top players (of course, if they have more than one spot in the single event, they are allowed to have two skaters staking SP and LP respectively). So if Russia would not bring their top skaters into the team event, they have no chance of medal. Regarding how much the skaters will reserve their strength for the individual competition, skaters from other countries will also face the same problem. I think Russia is likely to try to get the team gold and gold for pairs. Other disciplines, Russia does not have clear advantage. (judging from how Chan's PCS is given, I doubt that Plushy can beat him
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This woman is disgusting. 
Sorry. I don't understand, if Plushy will be in good shape, 
and he will win the Rus Nat, 
I believe,Zhurankov's speech was planned! 
But it is unbeliveable for me! 
Personal grudge? 
But in this case doesn't matter the Russian's interest? 
