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I think his reporting has created a lot of confusion for skaters around their Olympic dreams, and one place that no one wants to be is between a skating fan & their favourite skaters Olympic dream.
Bychenko apparently said at Worlds that his result will not automatically earn him the spot so he is heading to Nebelhorn to fight for it
.I talked to Bychenko after he was saying this to insist to him that he has the spot for Israel and there is no need to do further qualifying. This goes back to the journalists being told the wrong info and/or citing Jackie as their source.Bychenko apparently said at Worlds that his result will not automatically earn him the spot so he is heading to Nebelhorn to fight for it
Jackie is still a really nice guy. I think it was the absolute insistence that he was right until he wasn't and then the people giving the correct information were the ones confusing things was what people found disappointing.
ETA:
From the QUALIFICATION TIMELINE on page 7:
I agree that the ISU should have informed all the skaters & federations "even behind closed doors" by now.
Yes and no. I also was active during those Lives, Jackie even referenced something I said at one point. Outside of those chats, the problem was the Tweets and his page that highlighted those spots. Not until Brezina called him out did he go back and modify that there could be an alternate method. I've said all over this board that the ISU should've just added a little blurb to their competition wrap-up articles, since I was told Thursday night by a competitor that someone (or people) within the ISU, on site, had told him he had earned a spot and it was to be officially announced Monday. That didn't happen.
That's not clear as mud for me.
Yes, Bychenko knew he had earned a spot. What he was talking about was that it is not a given that HE will be the one who gets it given his result at Worlds. His comment seemed to indicate that the Israeli federation could/will hold a skate off at Nebelhorn.
That’s because of the “critical reasoning” vs “egocentric sycophantism” dichotomy.
No- having talked to Bychenko recently, he was 100% under the impression that his 24th place did not qualify Israel an Olympic spot at all because of the countries above him potentially earning additional spots. Nebelhorn typically does not (or hasn't in a long time) allow multiple skaters from a country to go to the event unless it's host Germany and they've already gotten an Olympic qualifier, so it would only be one Israeli there anyways.
The original question was actually about the Israeli NOC who have a tendency not to send their athletes even when they eared the spot (Tamar Katz case). Taking Bychenko right now is the most successful male skater in Israel if someone is sent at all it would have to be him. However, at that point (right after his LP) Bychenko didn't know he had a spot
I found the actual quote as opposed to the paraphrased one I referred to earlier and as you noted it is clear that he did not know he had a spot.
Calling the rule unclear is what Jackie started saying after he had been called out. It’s like those people who keep saying the current judging system is so hard to understand when you know they haven’t studied it in the slightest.
I guess I only ever heard him say the rule was unclear so I can’t argue with you about that. But frankly, since the ISU seems unable to teach judges how to apply PCS and GOE properly, I generally prefer to blame them for everything.Calling the rule unclear is what Jackie started saying after he had been called out. It’s like those people who keep saying the current judging system is so hard to understand when you know they haven’t studied it in the slightest.
‘And actually, it is not that hard’
I guess I don’t understand why people care so much. I get mad about the fact that half a million people died in my country last year because we had a sociopath in the White House. About stuff like this - not so much. JMO.
