I kept hearing that Yu-Na Kim was struggling with motivation issues in coming back to competition, which leads me to believe that she is only competing because of what she feels as an obligation to her country or to her fans. If her heart is not really in to competing, and she would prefer to be a show skater, then she should be allowed to follow her heart.
Oooooooooh, that makes more sense. I had thought it meant "on the podium," and no one's post was making sense to me. I heard she only lost 10 lbs in a month, which is better than 10 kg. Yuna and Miki are quite thin too, but they manage to make those jumps.
Could someone please post the link to the medal ceremony? I know someone did a while back, but I can't find it.
In my opinion Kim should have won despite the mistakes. It was still better than Ando's LP overall. I am sad for Kim. In the exhibition she skated like she had lost her soul the day before.
Mao said she started to lose wight too early this time. I guess it's very hard for an athlete to peak at the right time, even for Mao.
Yuna has always been willowy. Miki looks much better this year, and not so coincidentally, hasn't she been living and training in the U.S.? Funny how that seems to work out. Live and train under the japanese system-and No Food For You. Beginning with Midori Ito, (who almost died as I recall ) and ending (if only) with Mao. I think there is a Giant Pink Elephant in the room, and it is time that someone official intervened. Will they? Probably only when a skater finally dies.
I meant consistent in general terms. My entire post actually wanted to emphasize the fact that Worlds has never been her very best competition, which is interesting given her usual consistenty. Yu-na is pretty consistent, actually, especially when it comes to her 3-3s. Recently, she's been very vulnerable, yes, but I was giving an assessment of her entire skating career. And I think it's rather unfair to highlight Yu-na's (overall) consistency in those terms (looking at just Worlds), since she was competing while injured in two out of five. I think her Worlds track record actually corrobrates my belief that she does indeed have a measure of consistency, since she's been able to medal in all events despite different difficulties. 2007, 2008 she was injured. 2010 she ran out of steam after accomplishing her amazing Olympic feat. 2011 she returned to competitive ice after a full year off, but still managed to remain competitive. If you put her performances in context, she wasn't too shabby.
And really I think the fact that she's never been OTP her entire career is in itself evidence of her consistency unless you want to argue that consistent skaters must always deliver clean programs. Then it'd be interesting to see which skaters you would actually consider consistent.
And frankly I don't understand why you're saying Yu-na didn't win multiple World Titles because of her own faults because I never said Yu-na deserves any of the titles she's lost. I'm sorry if my post was misleading (although I think my thoughts were pretty clear). I just said it's interesting she isn't a multiple World Champion. She's won 13 out of her 19 senior competitions, but out of the six she lost, four were Worlds. She just doesn't seem to have much luck when it comes to the WC.
I dont want Yuna to compete any events hosted by ISU. ISU, they dont deserve to bring the greatest skater like Yuna.. Why dont you bother ??? Miki Ando? World Champion with that performance??? You gotta kiddding....
I just finished watching this today because I didn't get a chance to watch it yesterday. I'm totally fine with Miki being the world champion. Yu-Na just wasn't her same self from the 2010 Olympics. Neither was Mao, in a bigger way. I hope Mao can get it together for the next season to challenge for the podium again. For Yu-Na, her difficulties can easily be explained by not competing all season until now. Um, I was sort of happy for Carolina getting the bronze because she had such a difficult time last season and it was kind of like redemption. I wasn't impressed with her single-double combination and it wasn't a perfect skate but it was pretty good. I'm disappointed about the showings of Cynthia Phaneuf and Rachael Flatt, and I hoped for more for Alissa Csizny too (but didn't really expect it, she would have got a medal maybe if she went completely clean, but I didn't think she would). The Russian women really stepped it up, especially Leonova, which they had best do if they don't want the youngsters to take over. Viktoria Helgesson was one other disappointment for me. I thought she might challenge for the top 10, but she ended up way back and neither of her programs were skated to the best of her ability. Joshi Helgesson was good, though.
*shrugs* Yuna wasn't at her best, Miki pretty much was. Try to look at it unbiasedly and I can see how it happens. I like Yuna well enough, but her program wasn't as inspired as last years. You can't expect to be brilliant and clean and polished at the first competition of the season - no matter who you are and how long you had to train.
very hard to judge with opinion when one clearly has a personal favorite, though. Being emotionally uninvested makes it easier to see where the judges were going. Honestly? the ladies event is quite possibly one of the most boring sports events ever. Always feel that way. I have my favorite ladies skaters, but it's due to their exhibitions far more than their competitive programs. I'm not saying this is the way it is for everyone - obviously not as it's one of the most popular to watch by so many on here - but I don't get why everyone is miffed about who won. Scores being inflated happens all the time. Miki beating Kim - yeah Miki skated all year and was familiar with his program and wasn't off her game. Yuna was, end of story. If we want to argue based on personal preference and biased favor then fine you're all wrong and Alissa (my "favorite" in this comp) should be WC... but I know better than that.
Are you serious? Yuna's performance at Olympics is the best of all. That's why she set world record for her both SP and LP... Miki Ando? Was her performance at 2011 world better than hers at Olympics?? I dont thinks so.. She recieved the score of 124 at Vancouver. With my best generous estimation, 125 is the max justifiable score for Miki Ando at 2011 world.