Just watched Ashley's LP on NBC. Honestly tight or not and flawed or not this was my favorite of all her LPs and I think she connected with it beautifully. I hope she keeps it for next year but she most likely won't.
Yeah I was less impressed with Gabby on second viewing. Big strong jumps but Osmond more the total package. Zhenia was awesome. What a competitor. Deserved two-time champ.
Karen truly is a firecracker! I love her skating and that program had potential to be boring to no end and she kept me into it anyway. Her SP is a masterpiece...the FS is alright though
Osmond has powerful jumps, but her axis on them is so tilted I always wonder if she's going to complete her jumps cleanly.
Her SP is very flat... even TAT recognized it. Wakaba's SP is a masterpiece, masterfully performed after which she should have been in the last group... maybe it would save Japanese ladies a spot.
Still, she again did not do a 7-triple program (never ever did) which in my mind throws her off as a contender for gold in Koera.
I don't always trust Tat's judgement although I always welcome her comments. Even when she said Gubanova's Swan was a duck I just went about my business
I like Wakababy too.
Pretty crazy you can score a 140 something with errors these days.
Exactly, which makes me think then if she had 7-triples and cleaner landings, she could be on Medvedeva's level scorewise. But so far I've neven seen Osmond skating LP with 7-triples, not mentioning 7 clean triples.
I just started watching with Karen. Wow... It was so much better without Tara and Johnny talking.
Looks like they've decided to skip Anna's freeskate. That makes me relieved and very sad somehow.