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Totally irrelevant, but did someone hack this account or something? I could've sworn this poster did not write like this (gramatically, too!) in the very beginning.
Exactly what I thought!
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Totally irrelevant, but did someone hack this account or something? I could've sworn this poster did not write like this (gramatically, too!) in the very beginning.
Unfortunately, the best European today was American......Makarova of Russia!
I also thought Makarova was technically the best Euro skater here. I wonder if the judges would have dare to put her in third if she did not pop that last jump?
I just have to say something.. isn't there also so much more in skating than the number of triples? You all say "because she just did three"!!! Well, doesn't Laura have very good spins snd everything else? Doesn't that count nothing? And yes I am from Finland but so what, I am just so mad from what I have read here. So what if Miki Ando was better in the free program? Laura was better in short, both or counts!! I am really happy for Laura, she is a sweer girll who REALLY deserved this bronze. It is also huge for finnish figure skating, because she is the first lady to get a world champ medal ever for Finland. You should also go to see her interview in Youtube where she is crying. That shows how much this medal meant to her!!! So YES, she DESERVED this medal!!!
Makarova had good jumps (mostly), but her choreography was awful, resembling a Plushenko freeskate. Jumps were totally frontloaded and other stuff was not really impressive, at least not yet. She is a skater in progress and seems to be the best among Russian skaters.
I voted for Laura, because in my opinion she deserved the bronze in this competition where several skaters were not even close skating their best.
Ando landed more jumps, but Lepisto was better in every other aspects.
Even in jumps, Lepisto had an edge in quality of jumps she managed to land.
We can understand this. My question then becomes are you judging Laura, Miki et al by ISU standards (in which case than yes, I think her bronze is deserved) or what you believe that the standards should be. To me, the most convincing argument is for Cynthia Phaneuf, who was probably underscored in PCS in both the short and the long (maybe). I can't deny that I don't think Miki's a great skater, though, and I hate her programs. Except her (Phaneuf's) non-jump elements were easy, and it's not like she did the hardest jumps (no flip, one lutz).
Additionally, why is it that fans of the harder jumps always dismiss other components of figure skating? That's something I can't understand. You see that time and time again and it genuinely befuddles me. Especially in this competition, when no one really displayed the full package of figure skating (those that did - Takahashi, V/M - won). For the third time in four seasons, the champion didn't win either segment (Ando was second to Kim and Asada in SP/LP, Asada second to Kostner and Kim).
Additionally, why is it that fans of the harder jumps always dismiss other components of figure skating? That's something I can't understand. You see that time and time again and it genuinely befuddles me. Especially in this competition, when no one really displayed the full package of figure skating (those that did - Takahashi, V/M - won). For the third time in four seasons, the champion didn't win either segment (Ando was second to Kim and Asada in SP/LP, Asada second to Kostner and Kim).
Because we don't think that Laura's spins and spirals were sooo wonderful that they should have ignored the fact that her program was a heck of a lot easier than the other girls. (By quite a bit) This is suppose to be a sport and the jumps are over half of the elements that are judged. So when someone performs really poor jumping content and loses to people who executed high level jumps and high level spins and spirals, its annoying to say the least.
I mean she is OK but is it enough to get on the podium with only 3 triple jumps????? This is very discouraging trend.