Ok, here are my oh so humble thoughts on the season so far.
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Ok, here are the huge changes that I noticed this season. First, Kimmie has grown stronger. She has proven her ability to do a great SP and LP back to back, though the LP has an error or two. This means that Mao will be shaking in her boots. You see, because Mao has the habit of fudging the SP, come Worlds time Kimmie can actually beat her! I bet Mao is very aware of this. Mao has a lot of pressure riding on her medals: the whole country is keeping an eye on her ever since skating became popular and thrust her into the limelight. Kimmie, on the other hand, hasn't really made anyone expect amazing things of her, so she is taking it easy and less likely to have a nervous breakdown at Worlds. So, all that taken together pretty much means that Kimmie will be on the rise this year.
Also, another person who might do well is Carolina Kostner. She gets huge PCS scores even when she screws up her jumps. If she manages to land most of her jumps with just a few minor bobbles, she will definitely be in the top 5 and might even get bronze.
Oh, also, the USFA seems to have bungled their well-orchestrated plot to get rid of Johnny Weir. I think it's important for them to keep the handsome and the virile Lysacek as the front face of U.S figure skating since the publicity people have managed to paste pics of him and Kimmie into all USFSA promotional materials, be they TV ads, website banners, or what have you. These people are mortified to have to acknowledge Johnny's existence. For the sake of not being forced to put Johnny on USFSA promotional materials, the judges will be flooded with subconscious and subtle messages asking them to inflate Evan's scores at Nationals to the max! I expect that Johnny will lose Nationals of his own accord by virtue of doing jumps that are easier than Lysacek's. However, if by some stroke of fate, Johnny manages to win the US Nationals, expect USFSA to wash their hands of him by making no reference to the men's skaters in their promotional materials and by sticking to Kimmie and Belbin + Agosto instead.
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Ok, here are the huge changes that I noticed this season. First, Kimmie has grown stronger. She has proven her ability to do a great SP and LP back to back, though the LP has an error or two. This means that Mao will be shaking in her boots. You see, because Mao has the habit of fudging the SP, come Worlds time Kimmie can actually beat her! I bet Mao is very aware of this. Mao has a lot of pressure riding on her medals: the whole country is keeping an eye on her ever since skating became popular and thrust her into the limelight. Kimmie, on the other hand, hasn't really made anyone expect amazing things of her, so she is taking it easy and less likely to have a nervous breakdown at Worlds. So, all that taken together pretty much means that Kimmie will be on the rise this year.
Also, another person who might do well is Carolina Kostner. She gets huge PCS scores even when she screws up her jumps. If she manages to land most of her jumps with just a few minor bobbles, she will definitely be in the top 5 and might even get bronze.
Oh, also, the USFA seems to have bungled their well-orchestrated plot to get rid of Johnny Weir. I think it's important for them to keep the handsome and the virile Lysacek as the front face of U.S figure skating since the publicity people have managed to paste pics of him and Kimmie into all USFSA promotional materials, be they TV ads, website banners, or what have you. These people are mortified to have to acknowledge Johnny's existence. For the sake of not being forced to put Johnny on USFSA promotional materials, the judges will be flooded with subconscious and subtle messages asking them to inflate Evan's scores at Nationals to the max! I expect that Johnny will lose Nationals of his own accord by virtue of doing jumps that are easier than Lysacek's. However, if by some stroke of fate, Johnny manages to win the US Nationals, expect USFSA to wash their hands of him by making no reference to the men's skaters in their promotional materials and by sticking to Kimmie and Belbin + Agosto instead.