If Yuna couskate clean for the first time at the Olys, why theoretically Mao can't? ld Mr Sato said that the process of reworking her technique will be finished just in time for Sochi, literally.
I remember (though correct me please if I'm wrong) Mao said her success rate at clean runthroughs was around 30%? So if her success rate is 30%, even if it's 10%, why one of those skates can't be performed at the Olympics?
Back in 2009 some people would also say that Yuna seems incapable of turning in a clean FS. Now nobody doubts it, including myself.
There is a difference of potential.
it's true that yuna's first clean fs was olympics. she didin't often perfect clean FS. but, she usually had only one or two mistakes in fs.
if she got UR on 3-4 jumps, that was called 'yuna's terrible skating' (for example, 2009 SA)
In the case of Mao, In this season almost every competition, she got UR on 3-4 jumps in FS.(Even before her jump component containing 3a, 3-3)