1. Sasha Cohen
2. Shizuka Anakawa
3. Yulia Sebestyen
1. Sasha Cohen
2. Shizuka Anakawa
3. Yulia Sebestyen
so what about the rest of the field???
http://www.isufs.org/results/sc2003/CAT002RS.HTM
Jennifer must've had a wonderful skate to move up. Poor Elena Sokolova. Reputation didnt' save her here from the code of points.
Jennifer must have watched her SP from the night before 1000s times and successfully avoided the same mistakes that she had made earlier. I think that helped.
Bummer for the ladies - Annie has improved but is no way near the top skaters. Joanne is close but she needs to gets it all together.
Sasha was the only American lady competing???
Too bad Yukina Ota couldn't keep up her momentum from the SP. Still, a fine start in her first senior Grand Prix event.
Mathman
At least Yukina placed in the top 4.
Although Yukina was the 4th overall, I thought she did really great. (Her LP has such a beautiful flow throughout.. definitely worth checking out. Hope ABC shows both of her programs.. I can't wait to hear what Dick will say about her performance.
This is the second competition in a row that Sasha was outskated in the LP, but still won overall. Is this due to her huge lead in the SP? I read that Sasha violated the zayak rule, was she marked down in the LP? And she didn't have a combination. Arawkaas (can't spell, sorry) totally outskated her. Did the detailed scores reflect this?
1 Sasha COHEN USA 126.48
2 Shizuka ARAKAWA JPN 123.99
Those were the scores in the long program. So Sasha won both portions, but the detailed scores aren't out yet.
I think Shizuka did get a higher TES score than Sasha in the LP-but Sasha's lead in the SP and the TCS LP were enough to give her the lead.
I read on another board that they gave Sasha credit for a combo she didn't do, and didn't mark her down about 4pts for violating the zayak rule. In other words, Sasha was held up. That is so unfair! Arakawa should have won that LP and those judges cheated.
Jennifer and Annie must have skated exceptionally to pull themselves up as they did I'm sure we will not see it on ABC, unfortunately.
I still think Yukina is a force to be dealt with next year. Sasha and Shizuka are seasoned skaters so no surprise.
Alas poor Elena, pull it together. You are the most technical of technical skaters in the Women's Division
Fossi - When the contest is shown on TV, I will be watching for what you are reporting:
Credit for a no combo? It's possible. The judges are given a list of the technical elements to be skated. Sasha may have just left that combo out for whatever reason. If so, she should not have been given credit for it.
Also the Zayak Rule. What jump did she repeat?
Joe
I downloaded Sasha's LP and she didn't do a combination... she put her hand down on a 2nd lutz instead of the flip she's been doing, so I guess she was gonna go for the combo there...
Jump elements:
3lutz, leaning a little forward, so no 2toe after
3flip
3loop
2axel
3toe
3lutz fell out - she was probably going to put the 2toe in after, but with falling out she couldn't
3salchow
Last edited by Lanie; 11-02-2003 at 07:44 PM.
Hi Lanie - I think what Fossi meant was that Sasha was suppoed to do a combo and didn't, yet she was marked for doing it. Sounds crazy to me but we would need:
A list of the elements (given to the Judges and Caller) and see if there was a combo planned.
Then we would watch the skate and see if she left that combo out.
If it was on the list and she left it out (her option, I believe) but was marked for it, then again I must say crazy.
Any chance of you getting the proposed list of elements?
Joe
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