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Winter olympic 2010 Vancouver

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Silver medallist Russia's Evgeni Plushenko (C) walks across the gold medal position on the podium as bronze medallist Daisuke Takahashi of Japan reacts during the medal ceremony after the men's free skating figure skating competition at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics February 18, 2010.

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Evan Lysacek shocks Yevgeny Plushenko to win gold
Reigning world champion, American Evan Lysacek, won gold with less at the Pacific Coliseum, becoming the first Olympic figure skating winner since 1994 to claim the laurels without presenting a quad jump, which involves turning four complete revolutions in the air.

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Unprecedented: Evan Lysacek knocked reigning champion Yevgeny Plushenko off the gold spot to end Russia's long dominance in the Olympic men's figure skating Photo: AFP
 

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he is not competition fit

Yevgeny Plushenko retired and then come back just before olympic, he is not as fit and flexible as before. Not as fast and as crisp in his move.

He won 2 silvers and 1 gold in olympics, a great achievement.

Evan Lysacek could not beat him in 2002 and 2006 olympics, no way.
but he just manage to beat him in 2010.

Like i said before Evan Lysacek could not get a medal if he is in 2002 olympics, and his so call designer figure skating costume are so hideous, i want to vomit when i see them. You take a ninja suit, cut off the head cover, throw into m&d, step on it and throw some tree branches on it, and wow lah, a designer costume. I dun care what wang did in the past, Evan Lysacek short and free program costume are cowdung.
 

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How Evan Lysacek won the Olympic figure skating gold medal

By Christine Brennan, USA TODAY
VANCOUVER — If you listen to the wailing from the Russians, if you watch Evgeni Plushenko's smug dismissal of his silver medal and his competitors, if you happen upon criticism of the judging in the Olympic men's event on the internet, you'd think gold medalist Evan Lysacek wasn't an athlete, couldn't jump and simply tooled around the ice doing figure 8's for 4 1/2 minutes Thursday night.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, for all the talk that the athlete (Plushenko) unfairly lost to the artist (Lysacek), there are numbers in the form of the judges' scores that paint an entirely different picture:

It was Lysacek, not Plushenko, who won the technical element (athletic) scores. The two men tied to the hundredth of a point, interestingly enough, on the artistic component scores. Overall, Lysacek won the gold by 1.31 points.

LYSACEK: Relishes gold, addresses Plushenko

So it was the athletic side of the scoring that broke the tie, and that's where Lysacek did better than Plushenko.

Yes, Plushenko landed one quadruple jump, while Lysacek didn't try one. But Lysacek did land eight clean triple jumps, to Plushenko's seven (plus the one quad), several of which involved shaky, chippy, precarious landings. It was to Plushenko's great credit that he didn't fall on those jumps, but they were not classic, textbook jumps, as most of Lysacek's were.

Lysacek, 24, earned extra points on his jumps by back-loading his long program with five jumps or jump combinations after the 2:15 mark, the halfway point, in the program. It was a brilliant strategy.

Plushenko, who at 27 clearly doesn't have the stamina of Lysacek, tried only three jumps or jump combinations in the last half of his program. So he ceded valuable points to Lysacek there.

Jumps are only one portion of the technical element (athletic) score. Spins and footwork also play an integral role, and Lysacek scored more points on those than Plushenko did. It's tempting to believe all the "inbetweens," as some jumpers like to call the moves between the jumps, are fluff, but that's absolutely not true. It's much harder for a skater to land a triple jump after doing intricate footwork into it as Lysacek and many others do, than it is to glide into the jump, as Plushenko often does.

Did you happen to notice Plushenko stopping, posing and playing to the crowd during his footwork? He did that for one reason: He wanted to rest for a moment or two. Lysacek didn't stoop to any of that elaborate stopping or posing because he was well-trained and didn't need to.

So who, exactly, is the better athlete?

To watch Plushenko climb to the top of the medal podium for a moment in a shameful showing of disrespect, then to hear him blast Lysacek's gold medal as a sign that men's skating has dissolved into "dancing" on ice, is to see Russian pique in full bloom.

"If Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad … I don't know," Plushenko said Thursday night. "Now it's not men's skating. Now it's dancing. That's my point."

Clearly, it was a startling result for Plushenko, because Russians don't lose often in Olympic figure skating. The former Soviet Union had won every men's Olympic gold medal since American Brian Boitano's gold in 1988, and it thought it had this one in its back pocket when Plushenko swept through the fall and early winter competitions of the 2009-2010 season with some seriously inflated scores.

Then, when it didn't happen, when the classy, disciplined Lysacek won fair and square, Plushenko simply couldn't stomach it.

Plushenko's criticism of Lysacek and his competitors is a sad black mark on an otherwise stellar career that features one Olympic gold medal and two silver medals. What Plushenko doesn't seem to realize is that his narrow loss to Lysacek was not a repudiation of the quad, it was a celebration of the total skating program.

The sport, after all, is called figure skating, not skate jumping.
 

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Even in defeat, Yevgeny Plushenko steals show

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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - You would never have known that Yevgeny Plushenko had not won the Olympic gold medal.

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The Russian scampered cheekily across the top podium, pulled cheesy faces and gave a thumbs-up to the cameras, was a diva-like 10 minutes late for the news conference and gave a lengthy lecture on how figure skating needs to change.

Only his wife Jana's uncontrollable tears and the silver medal hanging round his neck gave away the fact that despite all his pre-competition bravado, the great showman had handed his crown over to American Evan Lysacek.

"I was sure I'd won," he told a news conference after his gamble to wow the judges with the jumps he had said were essential to win Olympic gold backfired when he had two shaky landings.

He blew kisses at the judges and raised his index fingers high in the air as if in victory before staring stonily at the score when it came up.

"Obviously, Evan needs the medal more than me, maybe because I've got one already," said Plushenko, who took off his medal when he left the ice after the victory lap long before Lysacek and bronze medalist Daisuke Takahashi made their exits.

SAME BREATH

Without congratulating Lysacek, Plushenko said his rival was "a great skater" but almost in the same breath called for changes to the scoring system that had allowed a competitor to win gold without doing a quadruple jump.

"I think we need to change the judging system -- a quad is a quad. If an Olympic champion doesn't do a quad, well I don't know...," said Plushenko, who later put his medal back on.

"Now it's not men's figure skating, it's dancing."

"The (figure skating) movement needs to go forward, not stand still and definitely not go back."

He also suggested the fact a north American had won was partly down to the fact the Games were in that continent.

"You don't have business right now in the U.S., your (skating) shows have closed. In Russia we have a lot of shows. So now you have an Olympic champion you will have sponsors and figure skating will go up a bit," he said.

When the Olympics are in Sochi, Russia in 2014, it would be a different story, he said.

"It's going to be our continent," said Plushenko, who had come back to the sport after a three-and-a-half year absence to defend his title.

Whether the 27-year-old Russian will compete in his home country's Games remains to be seen but he said he had no plans to go back into retirement, even admonishing his agent for suggesting to some reporters that he was going to quit.

"I need to learn a new quad," he grinned.

"I said before the competition I was going to accept any result ... Two silvers, one gold is not too bad."

His sobbing wife rushed over to him while he was talking to reporters. He gave her a big hug and some kisses, patting the red bobble on her woolly hat before getting back to the business of explaining what had gone wrong.
 

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Plushenko spoilt my moment: Lysacek
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek hit out at Russian Yevgeny Plushenko on Friday for discrediting his rivals and tainting the American's gold medal moment with a bitter rant.

Silver medalist Plushenko said the American was "not a true champion" as he had won without performing a difficult quadruple jump, which requires great height and pace to make at least four mid-air rotations. The Russian did two in Vancouver.

Even Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has weighed in on the subject, saying his silver was worth gold after Plushenko blasted the sport for being like "dancing" rather than figure skating.
"I guess I was a little disappointed that someone who was my role model would take a hit at me in probably one of the most special moments of my life that I'll never forget, regardless of what anyone said there," Lysacek told a news conference.
"For him to discredit the field is not right, it's probably the strongest field there has ever been."
Lysacek, who said he had not yet been to sleep or taken off his medal, was diplomatic about the debacle which has raised questions about the fairness of the judging system.
"It's tough to lose, especially when you think that no matter what you are going to win," said the American, caressing his gleaming medal.
"It's a really tough pill to swallow and I'm sure he said stuff in the heat of the moment that maybe he doesn't mean so we'll just try to not take it out of context and give him the benefit of the doubt.
"Congratulations to him on a third Olympic medal."

SHAKEN HANDS

While Plushenko, the 2006 champion who also won silver in 2002, avoided publicly congratulating his rival after Thursday's free skate, Lysacek said they had shaken hands and the Russian had spoken to him in private.
The debate over the quad has split the skaters at these Games, with many like bronze medalist Daisuke Takahashi agreeing with Plushenko that it was a vital part of the sport.
Owing to figure skating's very subjective nature, athletes have often said it is hard to know what judges are actually looking for but Thursday's result suggested it might be an all-round performance rather than one show-stopping moment. "Different countries sometimes interpret the rules differently," said Lysacek.
"In the U.S. we get some sort of unwritten rules that are explained to us from judges ... and maybe he (Plushenko) got different information than I got."
Lysacek said he had no plans to retire, although he has not decided whether he will defend his world title next month, but joked that he might not be the most welcome competitor when Russia hosts the next winter Games in Sochi in 2014.
"I don't think they would love to see me there to be honest, if I could somehow get a visa into that country," he smiled.
 

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Sat, Feb. 20, 2010
Russians lead ice dance; Belbin and Agosto in fourth
By MARCUS HAYES
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VANCOUVER - This was what the move was all about: improving compulsories, turning silver into gold, turning nothing into something.
American ice dancers Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, the 2006 silver medalists who, 2 years ago, moved to Aston, Pa., from Detroit to train with compulsory genius Gennadi Karponosov, broke the 40-point mark in the tango-themed compulsory dance for the first time last night with 40.83 points, in fourth place, 2.39 points out of first.

Belbin and Agosto's strengths, the original dance and the free dance, happen tomorrow and Monday, respectively.
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Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto of United States skate off the ice after their performance in the Figure Skating Compulsory Ice Dance on day 8 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at the Pacific Coliseum on February 19, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.

"We are really, really happy," Belbin said.
They stood 0.64 points behind Meryl Davis and Charlie White, their former training partners, who beat them for the most recent U.S. title.
Reigning world champion Russian couple Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin supplied a typically powerful performance and led the field with 43.76 points, 1.20 points ahead of Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. They moved from Russia 2 years ago to train with Karponosov and his wife, style and essence savant Natalia Linichuk, with whom he won gold in 1980.
The Russian team is embroiled in a controversy concerning their costumes, music and makeup for the original dance, in which they dress as Aboriginals to meet the dance's folk theme. Australian Aboriginals were offended. Last night, after they skated, the Russians draped themselves in gifts presented to them Tuesday by local representatives of the First Nations, a gesture of peace made by the Olympic co-hosts, since, apparently, they believe the Russians meant no offense.

Through an interpreter, Domnina last night revealed that they did not change their look or sound for tomorrow's original dance.

Italians Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali, who this year also moved to Aston to be coached, stood fifth, 3.88 points back, with which they were pleased. *


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Russia's Oksana Domnina, front, and Maxim Shabalin, back, perform their original dance at the ISU European figure skating championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010.

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Feb 19th 2010
U.S. bronze medalist Scotty Lago leaves Olympic Games after ...

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Snowboarder Scotty Lago won bronze on Wednesday night, but it was what he did afterward that's really causing a stir. The 21-year-old Lago had pics leaked of himself and a young lady having a good time after the podium, and they've turned into quite an embarrassment.

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The pictures show Lago having his medal bitten by the young lady, as well as dangling a medal below his waist as the young woman gives it a kiss. It's not unsurprising behavior coming from a young man who just had perhaps the best night of his life, but it was enough to raise the ire of the U.S. Olympic Committee and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association.

Lago has apologized to the U.S. Olympic Committee and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, and is headed back home.
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Mari Motohashi of Japan gives instructions during the Women's Curling Round Robin match between Great Britain and Japan on day 8 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at the Vancouver Olympic Centre on February 19, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.

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Team GB chief: Williams' gold is just the start
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TIP OF THE ICEBERG: GB chef de mission Andy Hunt believes Amy Williams' skeleton gold will have a snowball effect on her team-mates (Getty Images)

Chef de mission Andy Hunt was joined by a high-powered cheering squad in Whistler, which included five-time Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave, British Olympic Association chairman Lord Colin Moynihan and even Sir Richard Branson.
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Richard Branson hanging out in the mixed zone during the skeleton race

"We're not finished yet, it's a fantastic night for Amy, the team and the country and a gold is truly exceptional," he said.
"We've still got some more opportunities. Our bobsleigh men and women are in good form, we've got Jon Eley in the 500m and then we've got the curling.
"We have achieved what we wanted to do, which was to build on Turin.
"However, this must act as a catalyst in focus and funding and performance approach to winter sports and I think it will."
 

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(L-R) Adam Pengilly, Amy Williams, Shelley Rudman and Kristian Bromley pose for a picture during the announcement of the Team GB Skeleton Athletes who will compete at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in February.

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Amy Williams of Great Britain and Northern Ireland prepares to comepete in the women's skeleton run 2 on day 7 of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics at The Whistler Sliding Centre on February 18, 2010

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Fans of Amy Williams of Great Britain cheer during the women's skeleton competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010.
 

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FEBRUARY 19: Colin Moynihan, Chairman of the British Olympic Association celebrates with Amy Williams of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after Williams won the gold medal in the women's skeleton

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FEBRUARY 19: Ian and Jan Williams (L) celebrate after their daughter Amy Williams of Great Britain and Northern Ireland won the gold medal

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Bronze medalist Anja Huber of Germany, left, and silver medalist Kerstin Szymkowiak of Germany, lift up gold medalist Amy Williams of Great Britain, center, after the final run of the women's skeleton competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010

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(L-R) Silver medalist Kerstin Szymkowiak of Germany, gold medalist Amy Williams of Britain and bronze medalist Anja Huber of Germany pose during the flower ceremony in the women's skeleton event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia February 19, 2010.​
 

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S. Korea's Lee Jung-su wins second gold in 1,000 meter short track

AFP - Lee Jung-Su captured his second gold of the Olympics on Saturday, leading a South Korean one-two in the 1,000-metre short-track final.

The 20-year-old Lee, who won the 1,500m last weekend, was followed home by Lee Ho-Suk as South Korea enjoyed the added satisfaction of demoting bitter American rival Apolo Anton Ohno into third spot.
The result still brought Ohno his seventh Olympic medal, making him the most decorated American Winter Olympian.
Ohno, 27, who grabbed the silver in the 1,500m, surpassed his own and long-track speed-skating legend Bonnie Blair's US Winter Olympic record of six medals.
Canadian brothers Charles and Francois Hamelin took an early lead in the final, but the Koreans came up front with Ohno in their slipstream.
Ohno then slipped to the back of the pack with three laps to go but made a sprint on the final lap.
Lee Jung-Su was timed in 1min 23.747sec with Lee Ho-Suk 0.054sec behind. Ohno clocked 1:24.128.
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(L-R) South Korea's Lee Jung-su, compatriot Lee Ho-suk and Apolo Anton Ohno of the U.S. skate for the finish line during the last turn of the men's 1000 metres short track speed skating finals at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics February 20, 2010

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From L-R, gold medallist South Korea's Lee Jung-su, silver medallists South Korea's Lee Ho-suk and bronze medallist Apolo Anton Ohno of the U.S cross the finish line of the men's 1000 metres short track speed skating final during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, February 20, 2010.

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Gold medallist South Korea's Lee Jung-su is congratulated by coaching staff as he celebrates after the men's 1000 metres short track speed skating final
 

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Bronze medallist Apolo Anton Ohno of the U.S. holds up his fingers to indicate his seven Olympic medals as Canada's Francois Hamelin skates nearby after the men's 1000 metres short track speed skating finals at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics February 20, 2010.

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Bronze medallist Apolo Anton Ohno of the U.S. stands on the podium during the flower ceremony after the men's 1000 metres short track speed skating final.

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