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[Lightspear]

Any one have the Youtube link for the Bronze performance?

 

[cocovica]

Carreiere SP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqcLrh3Ilxc

Abott SP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EUiClnGSNg

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

I just looked at Carriere's SP, and it does look like Seinfeld was skating rather well. He has it all but he needs some ooph in his style. Not so "nothing".

Joe

 

[Lightspear]

Thank you Cocovica!

Joe - maybe Alyssa can be his Elaine!

 

[C_T_T_]

Ladies LP

Alissa Czisny
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lOf6wCS2Omo

Sarah Meier
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TxepPeDZQqA

Miki Ando
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aLYGPNhGs50

Carolina Kostner
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J3mnQECxAsg

 

[demarinis5]

Ladies LP

Carolina Kostner
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J3mnQECxAsg

Five triple shaky program from Kostner wins gold. As for the level 4 ftwk I don't think so. Meier wuz robbed. JMO

Thanks for all of the reports and links.

 

[netnuts]

Five triple shaky program from Kostner wins gold. As for the level 4 ftwk I don't think so. Meier wuz robbed. JMO

Thanks for all of the reports and links.

She only nailed 2 clean triples. Sarah Meier was no better, she landed 3 clean triples.

 

[demarinis5]

She only nailed 2 clean triples. Sarah Meier was no better, she landed 3 clean triples.

Meier won the free skate. If she had been scored correctly in the SP she would have won this competition. JMO

Kostner is going to the GPF in Torino and Meier is an alternative. This is not the first time I have been disappointed with the placements and I am sure it won't be the last.

 

[dutchherder]

I hope Aliona Savchenko gets some work done on her SP costume before the Grand Prix final. She had a "wardrobe malfunction" at the end of the short program. I didn't notice it at first, but my hubby sure did. It was the most interested I've ever seen him in skating.

 

[Vicky458]

Five triple shaky program from Kostner wins gold. As for the level 4 ftwk I don't think so. Meier wuz robbed. JMO

Thanks for all of the reports and links.

Anyone notice Kostner's footwork section in this program looks alot like Kwan's program to Song of the black Swan. I would love if someone could post a side by side video.

 

[bekalc]

Meier won the free skate. If she had been scored correctly in the SP she would have won this competition. JMO

Kostner is going to the GPF in Torino and Meier is an alternative. This is not the first time I have been disappointed with the placements and I am sure it won't be the last.

Perhaps so, but Kostner had a triple/tripe in the short, and I don't think Meier was necessarily that much better than Kostner in the long.. What killed Meier was her lip. She lost 1.60 points on it in the short, and more on the long. Kostner did lose 2 points on her triple lutz, in the short program.
Meier also put two hands down on her triple flip, which killed her as well..

Kostner had more triples than Meier, because of this. And while Meier is certainly the prettier skater. Kostner has fantastic edges, speed, etc...

I don't think either Meier or Kostner had great skates, and my book neither of their skates were deserving of a GP win.

 

[georgia]

I just looked at Carriere's SP, and it does look like Seinfeld was skating rather well. He has it all but he needs some ooph in his style. Not so "nothing".

Joe

I am slowly getting back to skating. So please help me out.
Who is coaching Carriereand who is his choreographer?
Thanks

 

[rain]

Perhaps so, but Kostner had a triple/tripe in the short, and I don't think Meier was necessarily that much better than Kostner in the long..

I don't think either Meier or Kostner had great skates, and my book neither of their skates were deserving of a GP win.

Yeah, this was my impression as well. I didn't much care who placed first out of these two. Neither were really that good, or that bad. Even though Meier ended up winning the LP, I personally think I preferred Kostner by a hair. However, if neither had made the GPF I certainly wouldn't be crying.

On another note, Ando had a meltdown. Ouch.

 

[goldenpleasures]

Anyone notice Kostner's footwork section in this program looks alot like Kwan's program to Song of the black Swan. I would love if someone could post a side by side video.

I'd love to see Michelle do a Level 4 footwork sequence.

 

[cocovica]

Delobel/Schoenfelder FD
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n1hF9PO8D24

Virtue/Moir FD
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3wsyx4sjs

 

[C_T_T_]

Mens SP

Sergei Davydov
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zRa1mHmJ0SE

Sergei Dobrin
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IulJigwmsiQ

Shawn Sawyer
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl89IgZO4jM

Changjing Li
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h6dGBKkvzT8

Yasuharu Nanri
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-5VEXTdt9qg

Kensuke Nakaniwa
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=F-q6J6zdCMg

Ladies LP

Elene Gedevanishvili
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=myM6V-sjR38

Lesley Hawker
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C0WHFYCcIV4

Nana Takeda
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C4aqSUPIRBM

Free Dance

Frazer/Lukanin
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hS62pDIHwiI

 

[ks777]

Nana Takeda
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C4aqSUPIRBM

Thanks!! wow, nana landed a triple salcow!! love her smile!

 

[demarinis5]

Perhaps so, but Kostner had a triple/tripe in the short, and I don't think Meier was necessarily that much better than Kostner in the long.. What killed Meier was her lip. She lost 1.60 points on it in the short, and more on the long. Kostner did lose 2 points on her triple lutz, in the short program.
Meier also put two hands down on her triple flip, which killed her as well..

Kostner had more triples than Meier, because of this. And while Meier is certainly the prettier skater. Kostner has fantastic edges, speed, etc...

I don't think either Meier or Kostner had great skates, and my book neither of their skates were deserving of a GP win.

Good argument but it still does not change my mind.
Agree to disagree here.

 

[demarinis5]

I'd love to see Michelle do a Level 4 footwork sequence.

Your joking right. Kwan was known for her difficult and intricate footwork while she was competing. Kostner's footwork sequence was a Level 4 in comparison Kwan should get a level 6 (if it existed.). IMO no comparison between Kostner's footwork and Kwan's footwork.

 

[christinaskater]

I love Nana Takeda, she has improved so much! She is so amazing!!!!!!!!


I think she was the deserving winner here in NHK!!!


The American pairs are going to be challengers for Vancouver, they are amazing