Ouch, this writer was being kind of harsh on Mirai, saying that she "will not medal at this event is she does not fix her jumps", pretty sure there are many nicer ways she could have phrased that. Give the girl a break, she's a junior in highschool which is stressful enough and then she's grown 8 inches in the past two and a half years (4'7" at 2007 nats, 5'4" now) and clearly has some self esteem issues which reading an article like that WON'T help. I mean, she won nationals 2 years ago and won the short program a few weeks ago...she doesn't have to prove to anyone that she's good. I want her to medal/win at SC just to show that silly reporter. Mirai is awesome! :yes:
It will be kind of hard to get revenge against Kiira considering she's not skating this weekend. Is it revenge by proxy through Laura Lepisto?Canada's Joannie Rochette will look to get revenge on Japan's Akiko Suzuki and Finland's Kiira Korpi who placed ahead of her in Beijing.
Here's an article from Pj Kwong. She's great at doing commentary, but terrible at picking winners and skater analysis, and she's a major jinx as well, so, there's no way for the sweep now,
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/blogs/2009/11/best_and_brightest_on_display.html