Ashley did a great job - first after the short!
Now don't be like Mirai.
It definitely was not her worst performance ever. I actually enjoyed it more than at CoR, I liked her expression, speed and cool running steps right after 3F.
However, I can see why Miki could be very disappointed with her performance. Yes, she has had worse showings, but when they happened, Miki usually was badly out of shape (Olympics), sick with stomach flu (GPF 06) or battling an injury (all the other cases). Because of that she might had been not expecting much of herself and was glad just to get through her programs.
Today, however, Miki was reported to be in a really good shape in practices. she even landed 3-3s and 2A-3T. Furthermore, she really wanted to skate this program perfectly - it's a program dedicated to her deceased father. Miki said that she wanted to skate it with a feeling that her dad is looking at her from heaven.
After doing mistakes on elements that she executed perfectly in practice she might feel that she let her father (and herself) down.
I don't think she's looking through rose-tinted glasses. If anything, she's looking through black-tinted ones on today's SP. She has always been very critical of her own skating.
Now that it's highly likely that Ashley will go to GPF, who would be the rest?
Most certainly:
Yuna
Ashley
Miki
Likely:
Joannie
Akiko
Maybe:
Yukari?
Rachel?
Leonova?
Should I delete it? Let's delete them.
Replace it with this, the true Olympic Gold Medalist for the ladies' competition:
http://mediaswirl.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/tiger-woods.jpg
Tweet from Ashley Wagner:chorus::
Short wasn't too bad, it wasn't my best though..I cheated a double axel! lol That is SO hard to do, so in a way I'm proud of myself