say, we said in the intro, a surprise, it wasn t a surprise. he skated a complete program and i think and what was interesting about his program is that he was really able to take advantage of the new scoring system, which rewards skaters who attempt tougher jumps later on in their program. he did that. what the russian skater is taking an issue with is that the fact he attempted and successfully landed a quadruple axel. he believes you re not a male skater if you re not attempting that jump. how much has that graved because he just didn t win? evan said, i did eight triples, all sorts of combinations. plushenko did the one quadruple, didn t land it perfectly cleanly and seven other triples. you put that together and it was a very narrow win, but how much
is that making plushenko not look so great? it s definitely not making him look so great. a lot of his sour grapes come from the fact that he was away from the sport for three and a half, four years. came back and you know, with the expectation of getting one last gold to kind of close out his career. evan has been on the rise steadi steadily, but i don t think he expected to see him next to him on the medal stand let alone on a higher step. what about the face-off in terms of hockey between the usa and russia tomorrow? that should be a good one. it s always interesting with hockey, men s hockey especially because of the nhl. they come together so quickly. they basically take maybe a day or so off before coming off to the olympics. you want to kind of, you know, maybe project ahead or maybe look back to kind of a miracle