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Alaine Chartrand - A New Outlook: https://bevsmithwrites.wordpress.com/20 ... w-outlook/

Patrick Chan Deletes a Quad For Now: https://bevsmithwrites.wordpress.com/20 ... d-for-now/ [Warning - it contains Rostelecom Cup spoilers if you don't yet know what happened in the men's SP.]

Thanks for the articles. I think Chan is wise to scale back, preventing injury. It seems Canada has a legitimate shot at the gold in the team event. Wow, it's a tad confusing with Chan and Chen. I think the whole program is SO important. I am not a fan of skaters landing every quad in the book in one program. Skating has lost something because of taking the jumping-bean thing too far. I hope they will limit the tricks in the future so that the other elements are not overshadowed, very much like in the past when jumps and spins seemed to be the only thing people noticed. I believe Brian Orser would have won Olympic gold under the COP.