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Important to add that something obviously was wrong with Mirai's knee during her Broadmoor FS:
oh noooo
Important to add that something obviously was wrong with Mirai's knee during her Broadmoor FS:
The program certainly has potential, but it was kind of difficult to watch in part because of the similarity to nationals this year. There was no clear crash or point where you could definitely see an injury, but she stopped altogether at one point and was shaking her head at Tom Z. seemingly indicating that she wasn't going to finish. But then she did go on and did an upbeat footwork section. To me she seemed ok during the warm-up. It wasn't clear to me if what happened during the program was an injury issue or just early season lack of comfort with the program. Pulling for her either way!
They better get that girl on the JGP this year. It's just like the USFS to put some of the older skaters who don't have the potential of this girl on the JGP ahead of her.It's interesting that Vivian Le, who won the Freezer challenge, is the 2015 Junior bronze medalist and hasn't even competed in the JGP yet.
Is that really that uncommon? There are plenty of junior level skaters that don't get junior grand prix assignments until a couple years of success at the lower levels at nationals. There simply aren't enough spots to go around, and given the US performance at junior world's the past two year it's only been even more tight. It felt like this year they barely had enough spots to send amber and karen (and they were sometimes the sole US lady at their events) , nevermind many more after thatIt's interesting that Vivian Le, who won the Freezer challenge, is the 2015 Junior bronze medalist and hasn't even competed in the JGP yet.
Last season the US had only one JGP spot per event a total of 6, with no chance at an additional spot.
But this time the US has two JGP spots at 6 events, and 3 at the US event, a total of 15 spots, with Karen Chen, Mariah Bell and Hannah Miller having moved up to the GP. That leaves opportunities for Tyler Pierce, Amber Glenn, Leah Keiser, the top juniors (Tennell, Serafini, Le) and maybe Peng. It depends how they all perform at the summer comps.