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[quote=Anonymous]Look, no one who knows skating ever expected Ashley Wagner to win a gold medal.  At best, she has always had only an outside shot at the bronze, if things fell her way.  The high expectations from the public came most likely from the endorsements.  I do think that she received more endorsements than her international results merited, but, in the year leading up to the Olympics, with advertisers looking to promote Team America, and with Gracie Gold not quite soup yet, Wagner won the endorsement lottery.

Skating well enough in the short program to make the final flight in the Olympic long program is pretty damn impressive against this international field, and totally validates US Figure Skating's decision to send Wagner to the Olympics.  Furthermore, having three American skaters in the top 7 after the Olympic short is extraordinary.  While the top three have a lot of separation from the rest, in terms of points, ice is slippery, as Scott Hamilton likes to say.  Who could have predicted that Mao Asada would totally implode yesterday?  And that Lipnitskaya would suddenly crash?  All three of the top skaters in the short are subject to vulnerabilities in the long, so an American may sneak in there for the bronze.  We'll see very soon.[/quote]

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