Kostner cant even do a triple lutz and usually not even a triple flip anymore, so that is already bad enough even if she starts doing a triple toe-triple toe or something. Ando hasnt been able to land rotated 3-3s in years now, I doubt she is suddenly going to rediscover them in her mid 20s. That said I hope if she has any real future success she does rediscover something like her formerly excellent triple lutz-triple loop. Those are the kind of jumps a skater like Ando SHOULD have to be doing in order to fight for major medals, let alone titles.
Excuse me. Have you seen carolina's long at worlds this year? Was that a flip at the beggining of it or I dreamed about it? And it was a gorgeous one if I'm not wrong. So before saying wrong things give the facts. She was injured this season so she didn't do the lutz and didn't try the flip untill europeans BUT she did the lutz in practise. She is not consistent at it but it's not a new thing and this is not a reason for her to keep it out of the program. If she hadn't have the injury she would have added it from the beggining of the season. She is practicing every jump and every combo including: 2a3toe 3toe3toe 3sal3toe 3flip3toe so stop saying nonsense like she is not capable of doing jumps.
And I cannot see any problem if she, Ando and Csisny will be a medal contender in Sochi. Didn't Shizuka Arakawa won when she was 26 and everyone call her out of the game? With no 3-3? None is out of the game untill the last second of the last program of the final IMO. Each competition is different in particular way the Olympic Games.