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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tez
2010-02-25 11:57 pm UTC (link)

Oh JESUS YES. I will never ever forget Candeloro in Nagano. EVER. The knee spin. KNEE SPIN! Frankly, I forgot the other medalists (I had to look it up to know that it was Ilia Kulik who won gold) but I cannot ever forget Candeloro. People need to realize this shit.

I do agree with you re: Kurt and the Olympic Curse. It was like it always just bit him in the ass for no good reason and denied him the medals he seriously deserved. But, you know, we love him and he got out there and had one hell of a good time while sick and he's made of win just for that!

From what I understand, they broke it down and quantified everything as best they could in an attempt to make it less of a subjective sport. So now it's not just jumps and spins that earn you points, it's how you finish those jumps and how you transition into those spins and how well you put everything together as a whole. Shit still happens (see: Johnny Weir getting vastly under-scored this year), but for the most part it's been rewarding people accurately instead of politically. The one thing I've heard the most out of Scott Hamilton this year is 'quality of skating' as a major factor -- in other words, if you can jump and that's all you can do, you're not going to do as well as the guy who might not be QUITE as jumptastic but put together a solid coherent program.

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