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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm catching up on watching the men's skating performances, obviously saw the results already.

Why were the NBC commentators so dismissive of the Kazakh skater's chances for this Olympics when he just got the silver at the last world championship? Even after he'd landed a bunch of clean jumps, they were acting like he was barely a.podium.contender in this Olympics "here to plant seeds for the next one."

Obviously they expected Malinin to win and also I know the Japanese skaters had some blips too otherwise they could have bumped him. But they just seemed very uninterested in his performance - they were talking about other random things during it.[/quote]

Yeah, they blew it, because the Kazakh skater was in 5th place and they didn't expect him to even medal, and they were so focused on the American gold opportunity.  But Scott Hamilton apologized later for being so focused on Malinin that they blew off the actual gold medal performance and didn't give the actual gold medal winner his due.

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I remember thinking after 2025 Worlds that, wow, this Shaidorov guy is the next big thing.  But then he had a relatively underwhelming 2025-2026 Fall-Winter season - to this point - so people can be forgiven, IMO, for overlooking him as a gold medal favorite in the Olympics.  I am thrilled for him, by the way.[/quote]

I mean, he himself looked shocked at his placement![/quote]

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