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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100315/sports/fig_world_rochette_out
Hot off the yahoo presses.....
Hot off the yahoo presses.....
I hope we're sending the youngster. Skaters like Amelie Lacoste and Myriane Samson have been around for so long. To me, they've had their shot. If we've got a younger one with potential 4 years before the next Olympics is the right time to debut her at a Senior comp.
Charbonneau finished behind Samson, Szmiett and Lacoste at Canadian Nationals, and it wasn't even close (17 points behind Lacoste). To send her to Worlds would have been outrageously unfair to the ladies who beat her. In addition, she wouldn't score well skating against senior ladies, and she might not even make it out of the SP which would doom Canada to just one spot for 2011.
Besides, Charbonneau is still pretty juniorish, and her only truly secure jumps are toe and salchow, as she has problems with both lutz and flip. She is a promising skater for the future. But the future is not now.
Charbonneau also had two bad skates at Canadian nationals. Had she skated up to her potential I think she could have beaten Samson and Szmiett, and maybe Lacoste too.