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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, Ilia should be competing at the Olympics — it is so sketchy how they ignore the results of nationals to pick whom ever they want..  And he is a local kid (FCPS student)![/quote]

Not picking Malinin for the Olympics was absolutely the right decision.  What would be sketchy is if US Figure Skating ignored the careful criteria they set up to choose the Olympic team.  The criteria is there for a reason.  They followed it, which was the right thing to do.  Body of work is reliable.  Brown and Zhou (Malinin beat Zhou at Nationals, too, remember?) have come through time and again for the US.  (Well, Zhou often chokes, like he did last night, but he also has had good moments.)  Malinin had one good competition.  He could be a flash in the pan.  Who knows?  The Olympics are not the time to figure that out.  The right US men are on the team.[/quote]

Brown hasn't "come through." He skates clean programs that are not up to the current international standards of difficulty. He does not place internationally and will not.

That "flash in the pan" could have been competitive with his program. Oh well.

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Sure he has. Brown finished 7th in the 2021 World Championships, ensuring that, paired with Chen’s score, the US would have the chance for 3 Olympic slots in the men’s event. Zhou finished - oops! - 25th in those championships! Didn’t even qualify for the long program. Cough cough.

Brown also qualified for the Grand Prix final this season - meaning he was among the top 6 men in the world. [/quote]

I’m not a particular fan of Zhou either, but there was little doubt he’d be joining Chen on the team. Brown was the wrong call.

I’d love to see them send a 27-year-old woman to the Olympics who finished off the podium at nationals who only does double jumps when all the other women do triples. Oh, wait. That would never happen.[/quote]

Because of the high level of difficulty in the way Brown executes skating elements, he out scores most of the quadsters.  Execution counts in the judging system.  That’s part of the sport.  Brown executes skating elements in a way that few others can.

Plus, if you insist, Brown performed a ratified quad in a recent competition.[/quote]

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