cekoni wrote:Blah-blah... about PChan's "big mouth"... “He does have a bit of a lack of filter,” said William Thompson, chief executive officer for Skate Canada. “We all know that. That is part of his charm, but sometimes his mouth gets a little bit ahead of his thoughts.”
In English, Mr. Chan tends to talk in a stream-of-consciousness fashion and the words sometimes tumble out like freshets of water, uninhibited. After all, English is not his first language. It is his third....
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Chan: “French is a little easier for me,” he said. “I'm quite direct and to the point. With English, I sometimes add more drama to it.”
The truth behind Patrick Chan’s China crisis:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/t ... clecontent
cekoni wrote:http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/01/13/patrick-chan-brings-clear-head-to-second-half-of-season/
Patrick Chan brings clear head to second half of season
cekoni wrote:http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/01/13/patrick-chan-brings-clear-head-to-second-half-of-season/
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“What was noticeable was my skating was very frantic, as opposed to just having a nice pace,” the Ottawa-native said.
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And anytime he speaks about quads and how high the competitive bar is being raised, the questions naturally move next to Chan and his career. Former Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko is expected to enter this month’s European Championship, after skating in exhibitions in 2010. The three-time Olympic medallist from Russian intends to skate in his home country at the 2014 games in Sochi, when he will be 31.
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whitebamboo wrote:Hmmm, when he says his own skating was "frantic", does he mean it as a good or a bad thing? (This is an honest question, I really can't tell from the context.)
whitebamboo wrote:
One phrase that tends to annoy me in these articles is "former" Olympic champion, I have to say. As I understood it, Plushenko is an Olympic champion; the word "former" is only applicable if someone has been stripped of an Olympic medal.
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