Lipnitskaya was on "powder diet" to keep her light & tiny as long as possible during Olympic season.
Things that make me sick to hear.
Lipnitskaya was on "powder diet" to keep her light & tiny as long as possible during Olympic season.
Things that make me sick to hear.
I actually enjoyed Alina's performance. Her rippons look nice and adds some variation to the usual fly swatter....plus her Lz/F looks really good. Even if I don't like the X-backloading or the half OTBT....
Overall, everyone on the podium brought something different that we could all admire.
Eteri also has an "ideal body type" for her skaters, and she said Polina was growing too big/tall for them, but they decided to keep her anyway.
I wonder if that would still be true after this week
if they judge both girls objectively, alina wins by a slim margin. Her pcs 4-5 points lower than marin and tes 5-6 points higher.
Alina already got the tes down. If she gets the right programs, and work on her posture, she's unbeatable for me. I saw don quixote ballet twice in the last 4 years, and when i watch this girl, i'm annoyed. If you toss her into the ballet, she'd look like gollum with her posture. She just doesn't finish her move. Why oh why.
Marin wins in pcs, but not to the margin she deserves. What a shame about judging. I don't know how she can improve on tes to compete with alina unless she has a quad or a 3a. I think she's perfect as is. Too bad there's a really talented girl with strong political backing competing against her.
I remember this post in her fan thread. So it was exclusively when necessary. Eteri and her mother wouldn't have talked about it if it wasn't a big thing imo. And of course they had to stop this at some point after the Olympics, you can't postpone growth forever without damage.Exclusively on powder diet? Source please.
Is Alina turning Senior next season? I'm doubting it because I think Eteri would want to focus on Evgenia during the Olympic season and most of her juniors stay for 2 seasons.
http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASK3L7VN0K3LUTQP03C.html
Alina said she didn't know if she would compete in Senior field next season. She also said, "It was hard to skate after Marin. I knew I couldn't make any mistake. I was nervous but I'm glad that I could get the title".
We're talking about potential rule changes that would take another 2 years to implement so obviously this a conversation about the future of ladies' skating. Figure skating trends never happen over one or two seasons.
Marin hasn't been much of a SP skater but I'm not betting against her or any of these girls.
Ladies Single Skating but in Russian language, transliteration from Женское одиночное катаниеZhenskoye odinochenoye kataniye. What does it mean?
All of these medals are for ants. I know these ladies are tiny but still!
JWC2017 Alina ZAGITOVA interview
SP FS 1 Alina ZAGITOVA RUS 208.60 1 1 video 2 Marin HONDA JPN 201.61 2 2 video 3 Kaori SAKAMOTO JPN 195.54 3 3 video 4 Eunsoo LIM KOR 180.81 4 4 video 5 Yuna SHIRAIWA JPN 174.38 5 5 video 6 Stanislava KONSTANTINOVA RUS 162.84 6 6 video 7 Bradie TENNELL USA 161.36 7 7 video 8 Lea Johanna DASTICH GER 157.11 13 8 video 9 Yi Christy LEUNG HKG 156.26 8 10 video 10 Polina TSURSKAYA RUS 155.91 11 9 video 11 Xiangning LI CHN 151.03 12 11 video 12 Starr ANDREWS USA 149.05 9 12 video 13 Anita OSTLUND SWE 144.57 15 13 video 14 Viveca LINDFORS FIN 143.53 10 15 video 15 Kristen SPOURS GBR 139.34 16 14 video 16 Michaela-Lucie HANZLIKOVA CZE 134.48 21 16 video 17 Sarah TAMURA CAN 130.40 19 18 video 18 Elisabetta LECCARDI ITA 129.33 14 21 video 19 Andrea MONTESINOS CANTU MEX 128.55 24 17 video 20 So Hyun AN KOR 126.82 17 20 video 21 Amy LIN TPE 125.91 18 22 video 22 Guzide Irmak BAYIR TUR 123.23 22 19 video 23 Holly HARRIS AUS 123.11 20 24 video 24 Valentina MATOS ESP 120.41 23 23 video
JWC2017 LADIES Victory ceremony
Exactly my thoughts when I watched the medal ceremony
It's 'betting against them' to say I don't think they could all pull off such a backloaded program?...
And if FS trends don't happen in 1-2 seasons, why are you already crying about the ladies not having any other choice than to backload in the future? It's nothing but speculation. And again, I would like to adjust the 2nd half rule to get more incentive for more balanced programs in general too, but I find the outcry over how 'everyone will only backload' in the near future to be overdramatic and unrealistic.
Ladies Single Skating but in Russian language, transliteration from Женское одиночное катание
A backloaded program, though taxing in terms of stamina, is not beyond the reach of lots of skaters, given the proper motivation.
In the LP Zagitova scored an extra 4.6 points in second half bonuses.
Why are you so sure about that?
Compared to what?
Marin also backloads, though not quite so severely. Do we want rules in place that will all but guarantee this?Or compared to Marin?
Maybe I haven't made it clear enough, but it's 2 points I'm arguing about: 1.) the original post made backloading sound to easy IMO and 2.) a lot of people overestimate how many points backloading actually gives those skaters in my perception (which, both combined, results for me in thinking we won't see skaters all adopt that strategy). It's really not all that much. It's just one little part in why Evgenia & Alina are so successful, which also includes a.) checking the GOE boxes, b.) checking the PCS boxes, and most importantly c.) being consistent. If skaters only backload more without those other 3 points, I don't think it would give them much.
And I still agree that I would like to see changes to the 2nd half rule that actually favors balanced programs more. I just don't think the 'everybody will do the evil backloading soon' narrative is justified.