Not if you can't do a reliable triple sal or triple toe, which Mao STILL has not completed in a program.
And if Arakawa's Olympic performance is considered "dull," Asada's phrasing and "interpretation" of "Czardas" is a cure for insomnia, IMO.Watching Mao on youtube, it's hard to believe people think Kimmie's posture is poor. From what I saw, Mao's is totally rigid throughout.
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Not if you can't do a reliable triple sal or triple toe, which Mao STILL has not completed in a program.
Sasha just never worked hard enough to really get that strength in her to land those jumps. End of story.
Remember Sasha had two falls AFAIK at 2003 Nats and popped a jump, or something like that? 3rd place was perfectly justified. Sasha was out-skated by other people though I do agree 2005 Worlds and 2005 Nats were very iffy results-wise, especially 2005 Worlds.
Remember Sasha had two falls AFAIK at 2003 Nats and popped a jump, or something like that? 3rd place was perfectly justified. Sasha was out-skated by other people though I do agree 2005 Worlds and 2005 Nats were very iffy results-wise, especially 2005 Worlds. Sasha just never worked hard enough to really get that strength in her to land those jumps. End of story.
I seem to recall at the time there was a big debate about the 7 "clean" triples that AP landed. From reports of a very reliable source i thought 6 of those 7 triples had been two footed to one degree or another by AP?If memory serves me correctly-at 2003 Nationals, after a rather shaky SP, Sasha headed to the LP in 2nd and then fell on her solo 3toe, 2ft'd the 3toe on the backend of her 3flutz/3toe and on the 3salchow. She also had a horribly cheated loop, an ugly landed 2 axel and landed 3 clean triples. The reason I recall all this is I thought AP, with 7 triple performance (only mistake was popping the 2axel) was ROBBED of at least 3rd, if not 2nd in the LP.