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Time for world title, says Patrick Chan
By Laurie Nealin (AFP) – 4 days ago
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Mental toughness, Chan predicted, will be a bigger factor than ever in deciding the outcome.
While Chan now whips off the four-revolution jump like it was a basic skating skill, he did not include that jump in his programs in previous seasons, arguing it was not a necessity to win world and Olympic titles.
Russian quad-master Evgeni Plushenko, the 2006 Olympic champion who settled for silver in Vancouver last year, vehemently disagreed with that notion. He and Chan exchanged verbal jabs on the subject at the 2010 Games. (... maybe they mixed Plushy with Joubert?
)Chan said it won't faze him if Plushenko is in the audience for the men's competition in Moscow or if he again returns to competition to take another shot at an Olympic title in Sochi in 2014.
"I'm always excited to have new people come and compete," Chan said. (... "NEW people"?!
)As for skating under Plushenko's watchful eye, he added: "My main focus is to do what I have to do when I get on the ice. As a skater, as an athlete you don't focus on the audience. I'm just going to go and focus on my quads and my triple Axels."
- 9 years?! 
Oh, Tarasova, Tarasova... 
