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As for Mirai being a headcase, well, she is complicated.  So what?  Figure skating is full of headcases: [b]Jeremy Abbott[/b], Alissa Czisny, Sasha Cohen to a certain degree.[/quote]

Sorry for derailing the thread, but why is Jeremy Abbott a headcase? He seemed to have recovered from that terrible fall amazingly well.
Please clarify.[/quote]

Oh, Jeremy.  Getting up after that fall was very unJeremy-like.  (Jeremy has since admitted he was looking for the judges, so his first instinct -- understandly -- was not to finish.)  But hitting the ice in the first place, that's vintage Jeremy.  Jeremy is a four-time national champion, which is an unbelievable achievement.  However, he's a four-time national champion who has never won an individual Olympic or World Championship medal.  (He does have a Grand Prix Final gold, so there's that.)  It's all due to nerves.  It's common knowledge that pressure gets to him when he's on the biggest stage.  Even those NBC fluff pieces mention it.  One of his coaches, Jason Dungjen, has said it: "The most important six inches are the ones between the ears.  If Jeremy doesn't believe it, we've got nothing."  Even Jeremy admits it; he has said that he "crumbled in Vancouver" (his words) and that he tried too hard.  The moment just gets the best of him.

And it happened in Sochi.  Twice.  Oh, Jeremy.

Jeremy is an awesome skater.  His long program at 2010 Nationals was incredible.  He beat Lysacek.  He beat Weir.  It was an Olympic gold medal performance.  But, for some reason, he's never been able to get out of his head and duplicate it.  He's had an outstanding career, but he could have been on the short list of legends.[/quote]

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