2017 GP Internationaux de France Ladies SP

[silverfoxes]

move GP France somewhere else... seems like they cannot have good ice... last year was much worse though... but Kaetlyn skated like she couldn't trust her toe picks... only jump she felt okay with was the 2a... she was tentative like I have never seen her.... and before, Tukt and Lil Bet popped their lutz....

very strange...

Yes, I think Italy deserves it, they've got good skaters in all 4 disciplines (well, men are not great but they have some promising ones now) and I know there are a lot of skating fans there. Or Spain...they proved they can put on an excellent competition with the GPFs. France is just a trainwreck year after year.

 

[Anyasnake]

Well, I can breath and type now. I'll tell you if ice was again a factor in these results, the ISU has got to pick a new host. It's an Olympic year, and no one wants skaters to get injured because of poor ice conditions. The skates today were off for everyone.

I don't think Ice has anything do to with it. It looks like every ladies cannot produce cleans programs GPs after GPs, even Evgenia. Yuna was great, Mai took the boards, Kaetlyn has mistakes but not huge and her performance was very good otherwise.

 

[snowflake]

1 Kaetlyn OSMOND CAN 69.05 34.35 34.70 8.64 8.39 8.68 8.79 8.89 0.00 #11
2 Maria SOTSKOVA RUS 67.79 35.26 32.53 8.21 7.89 8.18 8.14 8.25 0.00 #10
3 Yuna SHIRAIWA JPN 66.05 36.42 29.63 7.57 7.21 7.54 7.39 7.32 0.00 #4
4 Mai MIHARA JPN 64.57 31.93 32.64 8.29 7.82 8.11 8.21 8.36 0.00 #8
5 Alina ZAGITOVA RUS 62.46 32.27 31.19 7.89 7.68 7.57 7.89 7.96 1.00 #5
6 Elizabet TURSYNBAEVA KAZ 62.29 30.89 31.40 7.86 7.64 8.00 7.82 7.93 0.00 #9
7 Laurine LECAVELIER FRA 60.68 31.21 29.47 7.36 7.07 7.46 7.36 7.57 0.00 #6
8 Mae Berenice MEITE FRA 58.96 31.85 27.11 6.71 6.46 7.00 6.79 6.93 0.00 #3
9 Polina EDMUNDS USA 56.31 28.73 27.58 7.00 6.57 6.86 6.96 7.07 0.00 #1
10 Nicole SCHOTT GER 55.54 29.25 27.29 6.86 6.54 6.82 6.89 7.00 1.00 #2
11 Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA RUS 53.03 24.91 29.12 7.61 6.96 7.11 7.29 7.43 1.00 #7

 

[Roast Toast]

Funny how the ice seemed to be fine in practice

 

[labgoat]

Is this Tracy there? Has any of the skaters mentioned bad ice? During practice or competition? I mean, we've seen many bad comps this GP season. I think it much comes down to being an olympic season... nerves, working on programs to get the highest results, trying hard tech that they don't master and such.

Yes, Tracy Wilson is in France doing the Olympic Channel broadcast. She mentions skater complaints but is not specific.

 

[ice coverage]

Tracy mentioning hard and crunchy ice with no give, that doesn't give back and you see toe picks slipping on takeoffs and that we've seen many of them making many skaters look uncertain.

Re the quality of the ice:

For those who understand French (I do not), this page (article, plus scroll down for a video) has some information about making the ice for this competition.

The page is from a few days ago.

http://france3-regions.francetvinfo...-mondiale-du-patinage-artistique-1365429.html (Nov 14)​

I'm curious whether anything interesting is said??

 

[tars]

It's so weird. Three of them skated probably the best GP in history two weeks ago in China and now they bring this... :scard8:

 

[MalAssada]

Sometimes, stars align and a great competition happens.
Today, a cat got to the stars and threw them all off the sky...

 

[Ares]

Maria's helicopter armed jumps are so unattractive. If you insist on jumping with your arm above your head, EXTEND that arm and quit bending at the elbow. Totally ruins her skates for me.

I've seen someone defining her tanos as flying noodles too. Even funnier.

 

[ancientpeas]

Yes, I think Italy deserves it, they've got good skaters in all 4 disciplines (well, men are not great but they have some promising ones now) and I know there are a lot of skating fans there. Or Spain...they proved they can put on an excellent competition with the GPFs. France is just a trainwreck year after year.

I'd vote for Italy or Finland. I don't know about Spain. They were fantastic for the GPF but once Javi is gone is the excitement going to be there?

I'm going to put my vote in for Australia. New continents, new hemisphere!

 

[semosk8tfan]

Protocols http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1718/gpfra2017/gpfra2017_Ladies_SP_Scores.pdf

 

[Anyasnake]

Funny how the ice seemed to be fine in practice

Yeah, so easy to blame the ice. But indeed, practice wasn't bad at all. It really is some sort of disaster GPs after GPs for the ladies and I don't know know why.

 

[Osmond4gold]

Funny how the ice seemed to be fine in practice

How would we know, there were very few reports.

 

[MaiKatze]

So if Maria is second in the end will she kick Wakaba out of the final?

 

[JayW]

The ice condition is really poor. On my CBC feed, it shows workers are pushing water away from the rink. (I have a screenshot, but I don't know how to upload it.)

What a joke!

 

[Anyasnake]

How would we know, there were very few reports.

Go to #IPF2017 on twitter, there are a lot of Shoma fans I think. But nothing crazy happened, everything seemed fine.

 

[nolangoh]

move GP France somewhere else... seems like they cannot have good ice... last year was much worse though... but Kaetlyn skated like she couldn't trust her toe picks... only jump she felt okay with was the 2a... she was tentative like I have never seen her.... and before, Tukt and Lil Bet popped their lutz....

very strange...

lets see how the medals look like this year...they first lost Lalique, then Bompard, they will soon lose the whole event

 

[Purv]

It's too bad, but I agree. If it's an ice issue, they should have really prevented that.



This, or Finland/Korea.

Thr should be two on 1 continet. Korea is out

 

[sk8ath]

Protocols http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1718/gpfra2017/gpfra2017_Ladies_SP_Scores.pdf

what a terrible one

 

[MIM]

Sometimes, stars align and a great competition happens.
Today, a cat got to the stars and threw them all off the sky...

I hope that cat happens to be Javi