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[Disclaimer: This girl really knows nothing about figure skating, and less about its technical finesses; I watch, and like, or don't.]

Is it just me, or did Plushenko have better programs in the past, especially when Yagudin was still around to challenge him and always push the artistic aspect just a little further? Now it's back to jumps, jumps, jumps, and these complicated, fast step sequences, and yes, it's all perfectly executed of course, and there's enough choreography to pretty it up, but the the program lacks emotion, it's a too cold perfection, too obviously designed to collect as many points as possible, in my opinion. And it's hard on the other skaters. You could see it in the Short Program when he skated first, and again in the final group today, the damper he put on everything when it was clear that no matter what they did, they wouldn't even have a remote chance of beating him. It takes something of the spark out of it, if you know you aren't competing for gold anyway, I would imagine. And really, it isn't fun to watch, either.


Although I seem to in an extra nit-picky mood this evening... I didn't much care for any of the Free Programs, although I was happy for Lambiel in the end...

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