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Risha ([info]risha) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2010-02-23 18:34:00
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Yo Lysacek, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish...
Yevgeny Plushenko, Russian superstar, lost the Men's Figure Skating gold to Evan Lysacek last week. He's been throwing a fit ever since, including stepping on the gold medal winner's platform during the award ceremony.

Today, he took the whining to another level, and awarded himself the platinum medal.

ETA: Since I submitted this yesterday, Plushenko has denied having anything to do with the medal. Also, I must have linked to the boring article with no comments. Total writeup fail, guys. D:

*awards self tin foil medal*

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[info]tez
2010-02-24 08:28 pm UTC (link)
I remember thinking 'oh they make it look so easy' before getting on skates for the first time. After my ass got introduced to the ice numerous times I revised my opinion.

What gets me is that this insistence that the quad is the uber-jump takes away from the fact that Lysacek did (iirc) two triple axels in his program. That was the hardest jump out there before the quad came around, and it's probably the one style of jump that'll never be done as a quad, it's too hard. That's not exactly tiddlywinks.

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