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I agree. I like her a lot and I hope this injury doesn't ruin another season for her. I believe she could be on the top if she stays healthy.
Kaetlyn Osmond Still Injured / Injured Again??
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I agree. I like her a lot and I hope this injury doesn't ruin another season for her. I believe she could be on the top if she stays healthy.
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I am sure Osmond and Canada would be quite happy if she turned into an Evan or Michelle Kwan
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I am sure Osmond and Canada would be quite happy if she turned into an Evan or Michelle Kwan
Why would she want that? She has her style and she is great the way she is. She doesn't need to be a clone of anyone.
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Actually, I'd have to agree. I like her passionate style and I'm not sure training full-time under Frank would help develop it. If anything, it might turn her into the vanilla ice princess that Gracie's style is now except Kaetlyn has loads more artistic ability to work with.
That kind of thing might help Gracie because of her relative lack of artistry, but I don't think squeezing Kaetlyn into that mold would help much.
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My point exactly. I mean I adore Kwan, the best skater of all times for me, but Osmond ain't Kwan and doesn't need to be.
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Definitely! Side note/off-topic: I was looking up performances at 2014 U.S. Nationals last week and I realized that Gracie's costume colors were so similar to Michelle's in the 1998 Olympic season. Actually, now that I think about it, that high bun everyone keeps taking about was similar to Michelle's too (in the way that Michelle also had a bun piled high on her head).
Yeah, no attempts at carbon copies, please.
I love the putdowns of Carroll's coaching. Osmond could only dream of having Kwan's technical consistency 
. At Kaetlyn's age, Michelle was already a two-time World champion and an Olympic individual silver medalist.
It is a concern that a series of injuries have begun to plague Kaetlyn after only one season of senior competition. Michelle's issues with chronic injuries didn't begin until after she had been skating continuously at every ISU and cheesefest event over a 10-year period.
. At Kaetlyn's age, Michelle was already a two-time World champion and an Olympic individual silver medalist.It is a concern that a series of injuries have begun to plague Kaetlyn after only one season of senior competition. Michelle's issues with chronic injuries didn't begin until after she had been skating continuously at every ISU and cheesefest event over a 10-year period.
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I love the putdowns of Carroll's coaching. Osmond could only dream of having Kwan's technical consistency
It is a concern that a series of injuries have begun to plague Kaetlyn after only one season of senior competition. Michelle's issues with chronic injuries didn't begin until after she had been skating continuously at every ISU and cheesefest event over a 10-year period.
I am not sure a comparison to Kwan is wholly fair. That was a much different time, and Kwan didn't have the technical difficulty you NEED to have to be competitive nowadays. Whether she 'could' have if she'd needed to is a moot point, just as IMO the comparison is moot. For all we know if she'd had to do the spins and jumps required nowadays she'd have been injured too (also moot speculation). Additionally the average age of a competitor back then was (IMO fairly indisputably) skewing much younger than it does today. She wasn't competing against OGM and OSM veterans who had been on the scene winning everything for 10 years.
I do agree that the injuries don't bode well though. Hopefully this is something she can get past and she will have many healthy years ahead of her.
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I love the putdowns of Carroll's coaching. Osmond could only dream of having Kwan's technical consistency
I wasn't talking about technical ability/consistency (different eras, etc)--I was talking about style. But sure, okay, whatever.
Yeah, Kaetlyn's plethora of injuries sounds very concerning, especially since she was injured around this time last year as well.
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Last I knew, yes she got consulting from Carroll.
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Why would you ask such a ridiculous thing? This thread is about Kaetlyn Osmond, let's keep it that way.
I mentioned it earlier - I'm wondering if all of these injuries aren't related - that she was trying to get back on the ice too quickly because of the Olympics.
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I think during the summer and after her GP assignment, so injury and reinjury
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I've seen it posted here that she wants to land a 3a and a quad. Are these injuries a result of those attempts maybe? TBH I'm not overly concerned and think she'll be fine for the GP. Especially if she is planning on returning to training so soon.
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It's the same time this year as well. Oh ****. How bad was it the last year? Maybe Amei is right, maybe she was trying to get back on the ice too quickly because of the Olympics.
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Ugh, lol. I meant the results Evan and Michelle got are great and Osmond would be thrilled to get them as would Canada. I am not sure where she is at stylistically wise - reading some of these posts many are not impressed. But she does have a certain spunk and like her predecessors Manley, Chouinard and Rochette all of them had a nice style and power with big jumps - they just needed to learn consistency and deal with those nerves.
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I'm glad she's being smart and not aggravating her injuries. It was quite evident that last year she was not prepared for competition at Wild Rose. Hopefully she can stay healthy and be a factor this season.
