2012 Cup of China Ladies Short Program

[Mirunna]

Wow Julia. What a debut!!
And somehow I expected more than 63, especially on TES. Door is open for Mao and Kiira now

EDIT: she is not pleased with her score. It's understandable

[sequinsgalore]

Lipnitskaia
Score: 63.06 and into 1st

[HR4]

Julia now is my new favorite in the women's field! See her for the first time and absolutely amazed!

[Mao88]

Position After 4 of 10

1 Julia LIPNITSKAIA RUS 63.06 35.35   27.71 6.86 6.64 7.21 6.96 6.96 0.00 #4
2 Sofia BIRYUKOVA RUS 44.39 21.42   23.97 6.21 5.75 6.07 6.04 5.89 1.00 #2
3 Ying ZHANG CHN 43.38 22.95   21.43 5.79 5.04 5.36 5.43 5.18 1.00 #1
4 Bingwa GENG CHN 36.53 16.27   21.26 5.54 5.07 5.29 5.29 5.39 1.00 #3

Fantastic SP from Julia. Great senior GP debut!

[ortemis]

I wanna hate Julia so bad!

She's doing so good LOL

[Mao88]

Wow Julia. What a debut!!
And somehow I expected more than 63, especially on TES. Door is open for Mao and Kiira now

EDIT: she is not pleased with her score. It's understandable

I imagine they are marking conservatively due to the fact that she started 4th of 10

[ortemis]

Wow Julia. What a debut!!
And somehow I expected more than 63, especially on TES. Door is open for Mao and Kiira now

EDIT: she is not pleased with her score. It's understandable

she has been spoiled by the russian judges. yeah, it is indeed understandable

[sequinsgalore]

Zijun LI (CHN)

Music: Dark Eyes

Black and red dress w/sparkle and matching "cuffs".

3T+3T
3F
CCoSp
FCSp
2A
StSq
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[evangeline]

For everyone with a buffering Raisport stream, try pausing the feed for about 5 seconds, then pressing play again. That helped with the buffering for me.

[Mirunna]

I imagine they are marking conservatively due to the fact that she started 4th of 10

Yes, that is true and the same thing happened to Liza last year on the GP circuit. I dislike the fact that she is so emotionally detached from all her programs but I appreciate her skills and even to me,a non-fan, 35 on TES is low. Edge call maybe?

[sequinsgalore]

Li
Score: 59.21 (PB) and into 2nd

[draqq]

Wow, Zijun Li might just shake up the standings. That's an extremely high score for a relative newcomer.

[Mao88]

Position After 5 of 10 (End of 1st Warm-Up Group)

1 Julia LIPNITSKAIA RUS 63.06 35.35   27.71 6.86 6.64 7.21 6.96 6.96 0.00 #4
2 Zijun LI CHN 59.21 33.79   25.42 6.46 6.14 6.50 6.43 6.25 0.00 #5
3 Sofia BIRYUKOVA RUS 44.39 21.42   23.97 6.21 5.75 6.07 6.04 5.89 1.00 #2
4 Ying ZHANG CHN 43.38 22.95   21.43 5.79 5.04 5.36 5.43 5.18 1.00 #1
5 Bingwa GENG CHN 36.53 16.27   21.26 5.54 5.07 5.29 5.29 5.39 1.00 #3

[ortemis]

the scores are high right now. im scurrredddddd

[evangeline]

Wow, Zijun Li might just shake up the standings. That's an extremely high score for a relative newcomer.

Zijun had my favourite skate of the first group. The step sequence seemed like it went on forever (especially as she slowed down near the end), but she projects well for such a young skater and was for me much more engaging to watch than Julia.