I'm watching CBC's live stream.
Zijun Li: much better performance tonight. Hit her jumps, not much in between elements though.
3 flip-3toe (maybe slightly cheated)
2axel-3toe-2toe (looked fully rotated)
3lutz
3sal-2toe
3flip
3loop
2axel
Polina Korobeynikova:
3flip-3toe
3lutz
3flip
2axel-3toe
3loop (lost footing on landing and stumbled out)
3sal-2toe
2axel
Wow 3Fx3T and 3lutz?Originally Posted by Rachmaninoff
She could barely do one just in her last event.
Risa Shoji:
3sal-3toe-2toe
3lutz
2axel-2toe (looked like she was going for a triple and opened up in the air)
3flip- fall
3loop - noticeably underroated & stumble on landing
3sal
2axel
It's now:
1. Korobeynikova
2. Li
3. Shoji
Vanessa Lam
3lutz - fall
3flip-2loop
3loop - bad fall
3toe - 2-footed possibly?
2axel-2axel sequence
3flip
3lutz-2toe - awkward landing on lutz, falls on toe.
She'll drop from third...
What is wrong with this girl?
Do only one flutz in the LP!!!!!!!
Yeah, they looked good too. High and solid.
Polina Shelepen:
3lutz-3toe - looked great!
3sal-3toe: fall on 2nd jump
3loop
3flip-2toe-2loop
2axel
3lutz
2axel
Looks like both Polinas will be on the podium.
Wow,Shelepen has planned 7 triples with two triple lutzes and two triple toes and additionaly two double axels. No senior lady this year has such a difficult technical content planned in her program. Very impressive and she almost did it all beside that fall on the back end of her second triple-triple combination. By the way, it's very rare to see a lady program with two triple-triples. I think there were just several ladies who did it. Slutskaya, Arakawa, Asada, Meissner, Kostner, Ando... any other? I'm not counting Hughes' Olympic FS since both triple-triple would've been downgraded had she skated under COP.
If triple-triple sequences count, then Lipinski did it and possibly Bonaly. They both had triple toe-triple sal sequences plus an actual 3-3 combination in their programs.
I'm pretty blown away by the technical content too. It's much more difficulty than you typically see in a senior level comp. Is women's skating going to see some major advancement here, or are these skaters going to lose some of this ability when they get older? I'm hoping the former. I wouldn't want to see this (juniors out-jumping the seniors) become a trend.
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