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Japanese Nationals 2013-2014 - Ladies

Franklin99

Medalist
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Nov 11, 2013
I am thinking maybe Miyahara will make the team.


This makes me worried for Kanako, and I don't think she dumped that horrid SP in favor of her 2011-12 one. Which means, if she doesn't go clean in her SP, her overall score will be low again. And she will have an even more uphill battle to qualify for Sochi. :disapp:
 

NMURA

Medalist
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Jul 14, 2010
66.52 is not a score easily achieved for a skater of Miyahara's rank. The JSF is serious to push her to the podium/olympic team. She will be the #1 Japanese lady in the next season. The Olympic spot is too valuable to waste for veterans with no chance of mendalling.
 

aftertherain

Record Breaker
Joined
Jan 15, 2010
66.52 is not a score easily achieved for a skater of Miyahara's rank. The JSF is serious to push her to the podium/olympic team. She will be the #1 Japanese lady in the next season. The Olympic spot is too valuable to waste for veterans with no chance of mendalling.

Yes, you've pointed that out multiple times across numerous threads in this forum over the past few months.
 

ks777

Record Breaker
Joined
Aug 15, 2003
You know, other than her tiny underrotated jumps, Miyahara has everything else. She has good skating skils, great spins and good presentation skills. She is more polished than Murakami to me.
 

NMURA

Medalist
Joined
Jul 14, 2010
Standings after 4 groups

1 Satoko Miyahara 66.52 3Lz-3T 3F 2A
2 Haruka Imai 60.63 2A 3S-3T 3Lo
3 Rika Hongo 59.25 3T-3T 3F 2A
4 Mariko Kihara 56.35 3T-3T 3Lo 2A
5 Kaori Sakamoto 56.29 3F-3T 3Lo 2A
6 Miyabi Oba 55.07 3Lo 3S-3T 2A
7 Miyu Nakashio 54.65 3T-3T 3F 2A
8 Saya Ueno 54.27 3T-3T 3Lo 2A
9 Riona Kato 53.72 3Lz-3T fall 3Lo 2A
10 Yura Matsuda 50.94 3Lo-3Lo 3F prob. all ur 2A
11 Yukiko Fujisawa 50.37 3Lo 3T-2T 2A
12 Kana Muramoto 49.70 3T-2T 3S 2A fall
13 Kaho Komaki 48.71 3Lz-2T 3T 2A
14 Ayaka Hosoda 47.86 3T-2T 3S 2A
15 Mai Mihara 45.51 3F-3T 3Lo fall 2A
16 Yuki Nishino 45.49 3Lz< 2foot 3Lo fall 2A
17 Risa Shoji 45.43 3S-3T<< 3Lo 2foot 2A
18 Shion Kokubun 45.16 2Lz 3T-2T 2A
19 Ayana Yasuhara 44.67 3Lo 2A 3S-2T
20 Saya Suzuki 44.11 3T-2T 3Lo 2A
21 Sakura Yamada 43.45 3T turn -2T 3Lo fall 2A
22 Shiori Tanikawa 41.83 3S<< 3T-2T 2A
23 Mayuko Okamoto 41.10 3F<< 3Lo-2T 2A overturn
24 Mayu Yamamoto 39.58 3S 3T-1T 2A fall

National inflation is more than I expected. The caller might not be too strict. Amano is the assistant TS though.
 

ks777

Record Breaker
Joined
Aug 15, 2003
I am so nervous for Miki.. I should be sleeping right now, it's 12:25am here.. I guess I will go to bed after Miki's SP.
 

sky_fly20

Match Penalty
Joined
Nov 20, 2011
Miyahara's UR magically disappears by Nationals
seem they are pushing hard for Miyahara to got to the Olympics

bad for Suzuki or Murakami
 

ks777

Record Breaker
Joined
Aug 15, 2003
yes but she is already going to the Olympics regardless so it's not really exciting to me.
 

Frenchie

I'm gonna customize the CRAP out of this title!
Medalist
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May 4, 2013
The Olympic spot is too valuable to waste for veterans with no chance of mendalling.

I hope you don't mean Akiko Suzuki by this.
She's been struggling so far this season, but she's the one -alongside Asada- with the PCS to give her a chance of medalling. If she got the PCS she deserved, she could lower her SP to 3F2T; 3Lo and would still be close to the top.
Suzuki might often underrotate, but Miyahara pretty much always does. The japanese technical expert might be generous here, but at the Olympics, I'm afraid whoever sits on that chair and watches Miyahara do her 3,14cm high jumps will scrutinize the slow motions to no end until he/she gets to downgrade as much as possible.
Miyahara has a very limited jumping technique. If adolescence adds just the slightest bit of curves, she won't complete any clean triples anymore. That is, if the jumps she does now can be called clean. Lipinski in her prime jumped higher than she does now, and we know what happened there.
Despite these harsh words, I wish them all the very best. But Akiko Suzuki a little bit more ;)
 

MaiKatze

Record Breaker
Joined
Feb 4, 2012
Wow, it is getting exciting. But my heart wants Kanako to go. She is a late season skater and I hope she will do well here. I'm not a big fan of Satoko, but her time will come.
 
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