Jeanne wrote:
lemonade17 wrote:
Jeanne wrote:

but Joubert doesn't seem to be in absolute top form.


Who called it in the chat room during the NHK free skate?
image Well, that was me obviously thinking that he would skate the lights out with his SP once again - but not even 75 points with the SP and now the LP? And he just doesn't seem to have the form to pull off 2 Quads and 8 Triples or something like that - and he needs to do that in order to win the whole thing. Plus now he apparently has back problems. It really bugs me that skaters keep excusing themselves before the performances, after them etc. - so that everyone will say: "Well done for fighting through it." Of course not in Johnny's case at NHK where he was obviously ill and never used it as an excuse. But Joubert does it really often "It's my blades, I am just 90%, something is sore..." If you are too ill to skate - then don't. Otherwise, just skate. Every athlete has some problem at every competition.


I get the impression that Brian does it partially because the French press have been very hard on him in the past and he wants to make it quite clear that he's not failing because he sucks, it's his skates/back/month-long virus/sliced tendon, etc. I guess he and Johnny react to setbacks in different ways.