Did the judges overscore Kostner and Sotnikova?
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I'll make my intentions clear: i'm rooting for Gracie to win a medal. No denying that. However, the placements are correct. My issue is the margin. All i'm asking for is that if Gracie hits a clean free skate that she can get on the podium, but can she make up 6 points?
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The good thing for Gracie is that she skates after the two women she is trying to catch. If she nails a 7 triple LP and the two ahead of her falter she can easily make up the difference. If Adelina and Caro do six triples clean it will be tough though.
Yes, her position in regards to the skate order is perfect. I hope she can pull it off if Koster and/or Sotnikova open the door for her.
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I think that the marks were actually fair (except for Lipnitskaya's :disapp: )... As I said in the SP thread, the only thing that makes me curious is the step sequence level... To me it looks like the technical panel absolutely wanted one of the Russian girls up there with the big girls, and so magically gave a level 3 to both Yu-Na and Caro, and then some minutes later a level 4 to Sotnikova 
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I totallly agree with you on this. I also think Kostner should have been higher than Sotnikova.
For sure. Kostner did a more difficult combination and while both had lovely jumps, Sotnikova's components just weren't as fluid or graceful. Don't understand how she's ahead of Kostner, but at least it's only by .5 of a point or so.
No to Kostner. She deserved every one of those PCS marks. Her program was transcendent. And she brought the content, to boot! To quote one of my faves:
jasonbskates 11:00am via Twitter for iPhone
Too entranced to take a pic of Carolina's performance! She was mesmerizing...into a crazy close second!!!! So deserved!!!
As I said in the Ladies thread, Adelina did a great job and deserved her placement, but her PCS should not match Yuna's and her +GOE was a tad high. I think 70-72 would have been more reasonable.
jasonbskates 11:00am via Twitter for iPhone
Too entranced to take a pic of Carolina's performance! She was mesmerizing...into a crazy close second!!!! So deserved!!!
As I said in the Ladies thread, Adelina did a great job and deserved her placement, but her PCS should not match Yuna's and her +GOE was a tad high. I think 70-72 would have been more reasonable.
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I disagree. I saw a fire today from Adelina that I hadn't seen before. Her combo was basically a 4T<<-3T. She is obviously out to prove that she should have been on the gold-medaling Russian Team (although I would have loved to see her skate the SP there, leaving her off made perfect sense). She has skated a lot of great SP's this season but really no perfect LPs so she is going to have to skate her best LP of the year to medal.
Jason Brown and Co. would like to have a word with you about that...
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