NBC seems to be making an effort to increase their ratings for the Olympic figure skating - they had an item on the Today Show earlier today about judging of figure skating and will apparently be following up on the NBC Nightly News later.
Here's the online version of their story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/winte ... ey-n844886
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With respect to the team event, there is a lot of strategy involved and I think most of the teams are keeping their plans "close to the vest" until the team leaders meeting before the event begins. I know that the Canadian team members met in Vancouver at the end of Canadians to discuss their strategy
Some things have leaked out - for example, the fact that Yuzuru Hanyu
won't be skating in the team event, preferring to put all his efforts into preparing for the singles event:
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2018 ... orser.html
It appears clear that Patrick will be on the Canadian team from his comments in this article:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/ ... e37870926/ He had previously said that he would
like to skate in both the SP and FS parts of the event. I guess we will soon see
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Following up on kittykins post - The young skater interviewed on CBC News Network, along with his coach, was Jake Ellis of a Windsor, ON area skating club. There was a related article in the local newspaper:
http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/ ... ce-skaters Jake competed in Pre-Novice at the 2017 Skate Canada Challenge event.
