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Mao is skating last. I hope she does a good short program she can be satisfied
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2014 Olympics Ladies Short Program
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I hope not...she is not so good yet for receiving such a high score. She is a great jumper,but that's it...she doesn't feel the music she skates to. Maybe in four years she will deserve the gold medal,but for now..NO WAY! Just my opinion
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Best placement for Polina. Not so sure about Yuna being so far removed from the other top flight contenders; she's likely to be a distant memory once they get their chance to dazzle. She is going to need all of her mystique and charisma haunting any wobbly decision making come the later rounds.
i agree, i dont think the judges will 'hold' yuna down either just bc she skates early. flashback to 2010 olympics when shen/zhao won the short program despite skating first in the first group!
I'm not too worried about Caro -- skating right after Julia, especially in SP, should highlight her skating skills and hopefully she would get comparably great GOEs (and I'm going to say team skate score is a fluke). I am a little worried about Mao and Yuna, though. I'm not sure about Mao's nerve after Adelina and skating last, and Yuna will likely be fine regardless, but she is skating early.
Yeah giving out Goe of 3s to stepped out throw jump by VoloTran and giving goe of 3s to sloppy and untimed not touching step sequence and first finstep by D/W and outrageous Pcs given to them, B/S and I/K are the epitome of "fair judging." ROFL.
OT, but I like to speculate about who's missing that would've made it here? -
No. 3 Russian lady - Leonova, Pogorilaya (through no fault of their own)
No. 2 Swedish lady - Joshi Helgesson (also no fault of her own)
Kiira Korpi
ETA - the ladies are pretty spread out. I wonder how many will get chacked by NBC Prime Time? :scowl:
No. 3 Russian lady - Leonova, Pogorilaya (through no fault of their own)
No. 2 Swedish lady - Joshi Helgesson (also no fault of her own)
Kiira Korpi
ETA - the ladies are pretty spread out. I wonder how many will get chacked by NBC Prime Time? :scowl:
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I know this is not the place for it, but the word you're looking for is gist. Please please please don't use the word jizz and Mao in the same sentence.
No need for such sarcasm or angst. When judging is subjective, it's inevitable that there be some contentious scores. I'm just saying that this Olympics... in my opinion... it's been about as fair as it gets.
And that is why I put the word "fair" in quotes, and used words like "mostly". I haven't seen anything (yet!) to make my blood boil... and that's unusual.
MAO ,Land it in the competition already , I'm begging you. She just have to believe in herself thats the jizz of it .I know you used this word by mistake, but this is just too much... So unbefitting and inappropriate...
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Wait a minute. Not everyone on this board is a native English speaker or even fluent in English. When I think of the mistakes I would make if writing in French...I hope people would be patient and respectful with me.
I agree with Nagoya in hoping and praying that Mao lands EVERYTHING!
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I was thinking that very thing while I was marveling at the BBC's FULL coverage of FS (or at least relatively so).
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I think it's time to pimp the tags!
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I finally know who Lipnitskaya reminds me of! She reminds me of Clove from The Hunger Games (movie version only)! Tough, rarely smiles, deadly, and will go far in the competition.
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and yet the best Julia can hope to score is 140ish in the LP and a low 70s in the short. Kim is capable of scoring way higher than that.
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ERG, i hate it!!! They need to show Zijun and Kanako!!
Polina, Gracie, Ashley, Julia, Adelina, Yuna, Mao, Carolina are given imo... and that's a lottt of ladies to show on TV already. They usually show like 5 -___-
Idk about Akiko but then she is the Japanese Champion..
Well NBC showed 9 Ice Dance couples in the SP, so I totally can see them showing more of the ladies.
She was the test skate to compete at Nebelhorn. And at Nebelhorn she won the Olympic spot. Whoever won that spot was guaranteed a place at the Olympics.
Totally. Joshi was really robbed. I love Viktoria's elegant skating but she's had a terrible season so far.
The cheated jumps. I feel very uncomfortable with a skater who hardly ever fully rotates her triple jumps winning an Olympic medal let alone gold (by fully, I mean landing backwards). I know that many skaters will cheat their jumps at times.The reason why this bothers me is because in Asada's case, her jumps are a little bit short (less than 1/4) most of the time. So it's something that is engrained in her technique and not an occasional error. It's just a guess but I think it's because her timing on her take-offs is slightly 'delayed.' You could say it's a good thing that she gets some height first before rotating but the trade off for that is that it means she often struggles to fully complete the rotation.
Kim's jumps this season are not as impressive as they used to be, though. She's had a fair amount of 'heavy' jump landings with snow sprayed this season.
I have this mental image of Lipnitskaia skating two clean programs and winning easily and Kim falling on her 3/3 combination like at Golden Spin and missing a lot of points as a result, ending up way behind.
It shouldn't really come down to the call. The judges have their own eyes and replay videos and change of edge with no call is in the deductions list.
Well, if it's within that 1/4 range, I don't see what's the problem. Skaters with stronger technique will be less prone to URs and get more GOEs, so they still have an advantage in the jumps area.
True. What a shocker that they actually showed 9 teams in the SD. It could be because the US had 3 entries and the US had an OGM favorite.
There are also 3 US entries in the ladies competition and this tends to be a marquee event in the US. Maybe we'll get 10 SP's? - 3 US ladies, Yu Na, Mao, Carolina, Julia, Adelina, then maybe Akiko and Kaetlyn, or even Li or Murakami ...
The way I see it, it's not a good jump technique. And the judges should be taking -1 off whatever GOE they establish for cheats less than 1/4.
But I guess at these OWG, there's also Lipnitskaia's quite small jumps and unclear take-off edges to pick at.
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