This guy has it all...from the inside out. What an amazing athlete and sportsman...class all the way. If he had been judged fairly by the super conservative judges he would have Gold medals galore. But he knows and God knows he earned them. His wonderful parents should have a GOLD for the man they raised! God bless them too! USA loves you, Elvis!
This was the farce win of the year. Overall Eldredge totally outkstated him. The fall on the triple axel and stumble out of the triple loop compensated for the quad-triple, and the rest of the elements and program were far below Eldredge or even Urmanov.
Wow-zers 8-O One of the best performances I've ever seen from Elvis. It's so special to see him finally land the 4t-3t combination for the first time and hear the ovation :D
@russianskatingfan I agree. I don't have a problem with Elvis but there was definitely some home cooking in those marks. A 6.0 with a fall/near fall? Come on. There's no justifying that.
@nightswimmer99: I totally disagree. Even with only the first triple axel it was technically the most difficult program ever done (quad-triple + triple axel-triple + the 4 other triples required). So, the fall on the 2nd triple axel doesn't change anything for the technical marks, only for the artistics.
And considering he got 3 5.9s for artistic impression on what was an awful artistic program to begin with even before the fall and other mistakes he was deducted nothing even on that either. Typical of Elvis, not deducted for any of his mistakes, while all others are hammered for theirs.
@@richardross4677 stop acting like a jealous valley high, bratty judgemental, prick. Maybe if you would grow up stop acting so insecure and stop throwing hissy fits maybe just maybe things would change for you. Elvis is ten times the man you aren't as of yet
They said it was the most perfect Quad ever done in competition...and it does not surprise me that it was done by Elvis. He deserves that honor. He gives his all.
@russianskatingfan Stojko didn't stumble out of the Loop and hit both the Quad-Triple and TripleAxel-Triple, whereas Eldredge did TripleFlip-Triple and Triple Axel-Double. Eldredge could have put a Triple on the end of his second Triple Axel, and you could see him thinking about it, but he played it safe and didn't do it (and then ended up doing a messy solo Triple Toe at the end the program). Elvis actually had rather good spins too and it's not as if Eldredge's footwork as anything special.
Oh come on people. Put this in its historical context. At the time a quad triple was unheard of. The marks were not rigged. We can look at the choereography and its cheesiness now but at the time he was the best of this competition.
Elvis is truly one of the most overscored and overrated skaters in history. If I were a federal judge I would order him to a 20 year prison sentence for all his undeserved medals he kept over more deserving skaters.
Actually, he was usually underscored artistically, especially The Dragon and Dragonheart. Only one error I can see, certainly the only one that mattered...and since he had already landed the axel in combination, not as big a deal.
