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Ladies - Long Program

MikiAndoFan#1

Record Breaker
Joined
Jul 30, 2009
Warm-Up Group 1
1 Qiuying ZHU CHN 10 35.28
2 Ksenia MAKAROVA RUS 9 45.90
3 Christina GAO USA 8 51.99
4 Valentina MARCHEI ITA 7 52.42
5 Bingwa GENG CHN 6 52.61

Warm-Up Group 2
6 Kexin ZHANG CHN 5 52.85
7 Kanako MURAKAMI JPN 4 53.09
8 Adelina SOTNIKOVA RUS 3 53.74
9 Mirai NAGASU USA 2 60.96
10 Carolina KOSTNER ITA 1 61.88

:)
 

Nadine

Record Breaker
Joined
Oct 3, 2003
To tell the truth I'm not as pumped for this competition as I am for the men. And that's b/c I find the women dull, safe, and unexciting, even the new Russian phenoms.

Except for Adelina's creative "Bolero", complete with a purple jumpsuit, everything else is blah. Same old same old. I miss the excitement and passion of the old Mao Asada, especially at the 2010 Olympics. Ah, thast was one for the ages, I still remember the feeling of wanting to run outside around the block a couple of dozen times when she hit those gorgeous 3axels! :cool:

Those were the days...
 

sequinsgalore

Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 12, 2008
Qiuying Zhu (CHN)

Music: Scent of a Woman (soundtrack) by Thomas Newman

3F - looked UR, 3turn on landing
3T - hand down/fall
3S
FCCoSp
3T+2T - looked UR on both
2A+2T
ChSp
2A
... stream effed up ... what did I miss?
CCoSp
SlSt
LSp - not very pretty
 

Nadine

Record Breaker
Joined
Oct 3, 2003
Too bad about the opening obvious 2-foot on the 3F and then the subsequent fall on the 3T, but nice comeback with a lovely 3S, and two nice solid 2As.

Needs to work on speed and spins though.
 

gold12345

Medalist
Joined
Dec 14, 2007
Mirai being in this competition is excitement in and of itself. You never know what kind of performance you're going to get with her.
 

sequinsgalore

Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 12, 2008
Ksenia Makarova (RUS)

Music: Diamonds are a Girls best Friend

3F - fall, looked UR
3T+2T
3Lo - swinging leg on landing
ChSp
LSp
3Lo+2T+2Lo - 3Lo perhaps UR
3S+2T
2A
2A
FSSp
SlSt
CCoSp

An improvement over Skate America.
 

Nadine

Record Breaker
Joined
Oct 3, 2003
Gee I feel embarrassed for Ksenia, trying to be Marilyn Monroe. *insert embarrassed emoticon*

Reminds me of that Georgian skater that died her hair last year and then showed up at Skate America looking like that. :(

And her program was messy/sloppy, fall and iffy jumps, bleh. :p
 

Nadine

Record Breaker
Joined
Oct 3, 2003
Despite the fall on the 3L and slight bobbles on some of the landing of her jumps I really liked this program, much much more than her SP. It suits her well, as does the packaging, no more bangs, yes! :)
 

sequinsgalore

Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 12, 2008
Christina Gao (USA)

Music: Libertango by Astor Piazzolla

3F+3T - nice, perhaps UR on 3T
2A
3Lz - fall, e
CoSp
LSp
3F - a bit shaky landing
3Lo - inside edge landing, perhaps twofooted
3S+2T
ChSp
3T
SlSt
FSSp

Not total on w/ the jumps. Performance-wise she doesn't give the tango feel - she's still very gawky and the lines are not best.
 

BackStage Barbie

On the Ice
Joined
Nov 22, 2010
I'm not sold on Gao yet, she still has to grown into her body and her jump landings lack precision. I'm not sure she'll become the skater she was promoted to be as a junior.
 

Mrs. P

Uno, Dos, twizzle!
Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 27, 2009
Actually 100 is not bad given a not perfect program. That means she has the potential to score bigger if she works on the program a bit more. I get the feeling she lost levels on the spins, in particular the last one.
 
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