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Cool thing nbc has the entire event online. Gonna see how in the heck Laura performed so well and Caro "Hubert"ing herself off the Top 10.
The coverage we had was great. I appreciated watching YuNa, Mao, Joannie, Mirai, and Laura Lepisto (she did have a very good LP) the most.
I didn't manage to wake up in the middle of the night, I just finished watching the last group up to Joannie so far, so I'm only going to comment on Mao/Yuna for now.
First of all, my impression from this Olympics is that the COP did a lot of good things but also a lot of bad things for skating. The good thing is that the ladies used to bore me to tears before but anymore, the programs have become so much more interesting, there wasn't one skater in the top 15 (of the short program) whose program I didn't enjoy (didn't see the rest), and the same is true for what I've seen of the long so far.
But on the other hand the scoring is beginning to turn me off figure skating big time, because IMO it has taken dishonest scoring to a whole new level. At least under the 6.0 system, you could only give a skater a relative advantage, now they can be given an absolute advantage so big that noone has any chance to catch up to. I also think with the COP you can almost place the skaters anywhere you want with the component/GOE scores, and sometimes some skaters are very blatantly under/overscored in a way that I've not seen before, and this is a HUGE turnoff for me.
Yuna was absolutey brilliant and she completely deserved her win, but the 20 point advantage is ridiculous.
I really can't imagine how Mao felt when she heard the scores for Yuna, that score was so huge that I think Mao had zero chance to win no matter what. I was really afraid she would collapse under the pressure, so RESPECT to her for landing both triple axels, just wow. Of course, she also made some mistakes, so I don't have any issues with her second place, and actually even if she went clean, I would still be ok with second place, but not with a score difference of 20 points which is just absurd. I feel Mao wasn't given even a theoretical chane to win this and that leaves a very bad taste for me.
I liked both Miki and Rachel, and I have to say I'm very pleasantly surprised by the US ladies because every performance I've seen from them was very enjoyable with good choreo and great musicality, so congrats to them as well.
She really needs to work on straightening her knee and pointing the toe in the spiral. She and Brian should look at Sasha pictures. That is the only thing that spoils her perfection.
:thumbsup: Yuna deserves to win but the score was just too much. They really did not give a chance for Mao or Joannie (even if they skate clean) to catch up to her and that makes it not really like a competition.
More like a coronation wouldn't you say!!!!
She really needs to work on straightening her knee and pointing the toe in the spiral. She and Brian should look at Sasha pictures. That is the only thing that spoils her perfection.
Yu-na's spiral as improved a lot since 2007, in her credit she has worked on the extension and her toe point. True she will never have a great spiral, but it is good enough. Personally the straight line step was a bit of a downner, it was at the end of the program, she had done all her jumps perfectly, the music was building, but she just didn't sell it like I wanted her to. I kept thinking of Evan skating his straight line step to that music at worlds last year performing it all the way...I just wanted her to let lose and go for it, but I got the feeling she was being very careful at that point in the program. That final spin with the kettle drums remdeemed the program though.
Oh my ...
((((MAO))))
what she did was amazing, skating after the 150 of Yuna. She knew there was no way to surpass this and the five points from short.
I hope she can be happy with silver, it is amazing accomplishment after her bad season
translation is down there in youtube
Watched Yuna's LP again (3rd time) and more and more I'm loving the little things about it. I actually was watching Brian in the background and wow he was jumping along with her. I love that K&C moment after the marks... they knew she won yet Brian just let her have her moment. So sweet!
Btw, nice article on Yahoo about how her mom couldn't bare to watch!
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/figure_skating/news;_ylt=AgRS.aOr3XU14A0FiJZrPlaGsbV_?slug=dw-kimyuna022510&prov=yhoo&type=lgns