Thanks R.D. I'm just not of the twitter generation, tho. I'm wondering how she got so skinny unless she is skating a lot.
Question: What would Sarah's score have looked like under COP? (oly gold skates). It was the most technically demanding ladies Oly skate up to that point. Is it still? Can you or some COP whiz break down that skate into COP points and compare to Yuna Kim?
Here is what an Olympic champion looks like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pun-ZjqUOLA
One of the greatest Olympic free skates ever and under the pressure of home ice.
She blew Michelle and Irina out of the building with this performance.
As to 2010 - let's face it - Yuna, Mao and Joannie can't do the two 3x3's Sarah showed us. Was one short - don't kid yourselves fans - the Ladies were a bit short in Vancouver too.
Olympic ice is not about geeks with microscopes taking apart a performance. It is about skating in the moment.
I find all the criticism about Sarah laughable. She won and she won with great style, grace and guts.
Have you seen the slow motion tape of her "3-3"s? Her triple loops were at least 3/4 underrotated
You're over exaggerating. Watch this version of her LP to the end to the slo-mo replay:Have you seen the slow motion tape of her "3-3"s? Her triple loops were at least 3/4 underrotated
Tara has pretty much said it is hard to defend your title. Sarah clearly lost motivation and the following season after OGM was quite underwhelming. Tara left the scene. I hope Yu-Na does keep on competing and up to her standards. That would be a true test of a Champion. But if she does leave, well, it's been quite an experience!
Cheated jumps aside, Sarah had many great qualities as a skater. I often felt the harsh criticism that her skating faced was way exaggerated. She had interesting programs, good in-betweens (more so than Kwan and Cohen I'd say at the time), great spins, solid basics and a good sense of musicality, even if she was a little less polished than some of the other top skaters.
Yu-Na's 3lz/3t and 2a/3t blows any combo done by Sarah and Tara out of the water.