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The two programs she has this year, in particular, could not have been choreographed MORE to the music. I completley disagree with you on that. Kostner did not just develop musicality and interpretation over 1 season. She has been doing unique, interesting programs for years and has always been scored very well in the PCS despite her many inconsistent, sub-par performances in terms of jumping. Why else do you think so many used to think she's consistently "overscored"? Beginning last season though, she seems to have found inner peace and is skating with a calmness and confidence that we have not seen before, and can finally present her programs in a way that really welcomes the audience in to enjoy the performance and be absorbed by it. It only makes sense that her PCS go up even higher.I guess I have to disagree with you on the PCS. Regardless of personal taste, you don't suddenly develop musicality and interpretation over 1 season. Caroline does good routines like great gymnast can do on time to the beat, but none of the choreographed movements are felt from the heart with an unique opinion from this to other program she perform in the past. If you switch the music off on all Carolina's program, they are hardly different.
As if Yuna Kim hasn't been a beneficiary of inflated PCS during her competitive days...Ultimately, the whole idea PCS is suddenly the most important thing in figure skating is ridiculous, when their technical content do not match up to the standards of the past gold standard and most importantly to others they compete with IN the same competition. If this standard applies to the ladies, why arn't it applies to the men, where Jeremy and Daisuke certainly deserve higher PCS since they excel in the areas you mentioned.
Because there are lots of skaters NOT going to Worlds and it's great for them to have opportunities like in Challenge Cup in The Hague to compete?the timing and selection of this event puzzles me
When there is so little money available to sponsor events, why host something of this importance and calibre so close 2 weeks before something like worlds?
Rippon was credited with landing both of his 3A in his Nationals FS. The << you saw in his protocol was on the 2T part of his 3A combination. I give him props for at least trying the quad in his long program all season when he could have taken a safer route.... but I take issue with the fact that in his [Adam Rippon's 2012 Nationals] FS which was considered a good performance for Adam, and got a huge score, he only managed to produce one clean 3a (and it wasn't a pretty one), he doubled the quad attempt, he's never landed or even rotated a quad in international competition before, and his first 3a was UR.
You don't know that for sure. The idea could have been to get the crappy skate out of the way.In hind sight, competing in this event, whose ever idea it was, didn't work out well for Alissa and Jeremy.
You don't know that for sure. The idea could have been to get the crappy skate out of the way.
That seems to be exactly the case of good/bad/good/bad (except they've had a send off for a long time at DSC, one of my coaches took part back in the 90s).
Can you give an example of where Kostner is being overscored and why you think so?