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- Jan 25, 2013
Lets see, she does only 4 type of triples while Ito did 6 and Kwan did 5 and practiced 6. She has issues with toe point, leg line, extension, while Kwan and Lynn were perfect skaters in a stylistic sense, and skated from their heart and created magic much more easily with their skating than Yu Na did. You do the math.
Kim has had harder Olympic performances, technically speaking, and was arguably the most consistent of these skaters, especially considering the content she's had to do under CoP. To say that she's a "big level" below Kwan, Lynn and Ito, who have never skated well enough to win the Olympics (and Lynn having never even won Worlds) is quite ridiculous. If you want to talk about the *sport* of figure skating, Kim's ability to balance technical and artistic is much greater than Lynn's artistic contribution and lacklustre technical abilities. It would be like saying Kim is a big level below Lucinda Ruh because Lucinda's the best spinner of all time while Kim's spins are weak in comparison. Taking the overall attributes, Lynn is off the top 3 list for sure and replaced by Kim, IMO. Even Witt would place higher than Lynn.
Although you have unorthodox placements when it comes to skaters who you value higher than others... I mean, Sandy Lenz, come on.
If toe/leg point is keeping a skater from being an all-time great (as if Ito had extension and toe point herself), then you're welcome to continue rolling along with your Dick Button logic.