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[quote=Anonymous][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]

That's really helpful - I don't follow closely to know about the other events.

Also is the technical vs artistry scoring different at Worlds vs Olympics? Bc they were very derogatory about how he artistry that but again he got the Worlds silver just a year ago.

I agree the Japanese skaters after him had more artistry in their choreography and performance, even to a lay observer
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Shaidorov’s artistry isn’t there yet, but if past is prologue, it will come.  A lot of great skaters, like Brian Boitano, were still relatively wooden and stiff when they were younger - their big jumps came first - and then they blossomed into artists.  Maybe that will happen with Shaidorov (and Malinin).[/quote]

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