I haven't argue anything against YuNa's OGM yet. Obviously you have your definition of what makes a skater "best ever". Clean technique, I agree YuNa has clean technique, she is not the only who has clean technique. "True artistry", now that is entirely too subjective. I guess that is why so far in the sports history there has not been an award given to the so call "best ever skater". Anyway why can't fans celebrate their favorite w/o those gushes of "best ever" claims?BTW... its's not just because she is the reigning WC and now OC that I called her Best EVER.
In my opinion, possible anyone standing in her way to become the Best Ever is Kwan and possible Witt...
I do call her the best because there was never a complete package in Woment's figure skating.. you can argue all you want but I'm sure you can't argue Yuna's clean techniques and true artistry..
Can't believe I forgot to say yay Akiko for her first major international event done so so well!
can't believe i forgot to say yay akiko for her first major international event done so so well!
I clicked on their name to get to their profile, and on the left there's a link you can select to add them to your ignore list.Well, if you find it, let me know I'm still looking for it....
Her program was amazing - sold so amazingly well. And the jumps were awesome too. Same with Mirai. I at first thought she was going to beat Joannie in the LP (but not overall) but was still pleasantly surprised and happy with her 4th place. To come 4th at your first major senior international competition, which just happens to be the Olympics - WOW!Can't believe I forgot to say yay Akiko for her first major international event done so so well!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op_2klX3Nfs
Mao's interview!! the description of that post in wrong... The interviewer isn't asking that kind of question!! Mao did say that she was very disappointed with her performance though... And that's why she's crying...
Translation:
Interviewer: What was your four minutes like?? ( FS )
Mao Asada: Well... It was really... Long but short at the same time...
Interviewer: Which part of the program did you feel that?
Mao starts crying... Trying to compose herself...
Mao Asada: It was four minutes... I was thinking too much and I thought it very was long... But if I look back it was finished so quickly...
Interviewer: Before your performance, you were listening to music... ( Almost crying... ) What was going on in your mind?
Mao Asada: But, I think I did what I was capable of.. But I'm still unhappy about the performance... But I did what I'm capable of...
Interviewer:You landed all of your triple axels at the Olympic stage and did you grain any confidence because of that?
Mao Asada: Yeah... I landed two of my triple axels so that went really well but because I made mistakes in the other parts, I'm not happy about it.
Interviewer: If you look back in to the last four years, I know you had many different stages, some difficult...l... If you return back home later , what will you be thinking about most?
Mao Asada: But, the performance it self, I wasn't happy about it and the triple axesl was the only good part of the program.
Mao Asada: Thank you very much.
It took me a while to translate it!!
First of all, my impression from this Olympics is that the COP did a lot of good things but also a lot of bad things for skating. The good thing is that the ladies used to bore me to tears before but anymore, the programs have become so much more interesting, there wasn't one skater in the top 15 (of the short program) whose program I didn't enjoy (didn't see the rest), and the same is true for what I've seen of the long so far.
But on the other hand the scoring is beginning to turn me off figure skating big time, because IMO it has taken dishonest scoring to a whole new level. At least under the 6.0 system, you could only give a skater a relative advantage, now they can be given an absolute advantage so big that noone has any chance to catch up to. I also think with the COP you can almost place the skaters anywhere you want with the component/GOE scores, and sometimes some skaters are very blatantly under/overscored in a way that I've not seen before, and this is a HUGE turnoff for me.
Yuna was absolutey brilliant and she completely deserved her win, but the 20 point advantage is ridiculous.