- Joined
- Jun 16, 2010
Looking back at the 2011 Worlds it appears Makarova actually had a really good shot at the bronze medal had she skated her best. The judges already put her 3rd in the short over a clean Leonova with the same jumps, with both higher TES and PCS, which indicates the judges considered her Russian #1 then (a huge contrast to 2012 Worlds SP when skating cleanly with the same jumps Leonova was a whopping 6 points above). She also received some very generous PCS for her quite bad LP performance with many mistakes, higher than Mao Asada for instance, and much higher than Murakami who always beat her easily in juniors. Had she scored about the same as Leonova in the long she would have had enough to hold onto the bronze overall. Would her career since have panned out differently had she medalled at those Worlds.