Clean performance by the Japanese girl (aka 3/2, 3R, 2A), but my pet peeve is that she needs to straighten her free leg on the donut spin, but her last spin was relatively fast. Still another pretty pretty skater...
Gorgeous performance by Rach, ahhhh what a difference a clean performance makes, puts a smile on my face and a joy in my heart. LOVE the music as well. And I would love it if Rach would put in a stag jump or two, as well as a split falling leaf.
Nice clean performance by Mao, but the whole time I was thinking whom would I pick to be World Champion this year ~ Mao? Carolina? Alissa?
None of them are power jumpers, jump about the same, and they all have really good artistry/presentation, so I suppose if they all skate clean it will be a case of apples or oranges, whatever the judges like best on that night. Reminds me of the 1994 Olympic debates between G&G versus M&D.
I watched half of Kiira's skate, no offense against her, but I decided not to watch the rest, let alone Leonova.
Seriously, ladiezzz is boring. *insert sleep emoticon*
Now I'm just biding my time until the mens, force to watch pairs next, then finally the men (crossing my fingers that Evgeni Plushenko is in the audience).
This is the first time I've watched Sofia and I really liked what I saw.
Alena's SP is actually more interesting than I had expectated.
Mao is lovely. So good to see her smile again.
First, it really annoys me that the British eurosport commentators said Asada only won the short because of her reputation. Seriously? Did they not watch her skate? Imo, she was in a class of her own, and what more do the judges want? She should be getting at least 8's in PCS!
Second, where in Alena's program are there transitions or choreography worthy of 7 and 7.50? :disapp: I absolutely agree that her skating skills, performance and interpretation should be in the 7-8 range, but the program is stripped of transitions and the choreography/composition sucks! No offence, but it shouldn't take 1 minute to perform a SlSt!
Third, Sotnikova seems to be thinking too much. Her mistakes are basically because of hesitations. Same goes with Korpi
Fourth, can the ladies become any more boring? lol!
Sofia was a nice surprise, but she certainly has a job to do with her PCS...