rika would've gotten at least 4-5 points higher on PCs overall if she was completely clean. and she wouldn't have lost a point for the fall, she would've won easily if she landed everything imo but i don't think she's managed two clean programs this season.
2019-20 Russian Ladies' Figure Skating
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rika would've gotten at least 4-5 points higher on PCs overall if she was completely clean. and she wouldn't have lost a point for the fall, she would've won easily if she landed everything imo but i don't think she's managed two clean programs this season.
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I guess so, because when they first ask her about weight watching, she says “you just have to eat right”.
Then she says that she didn’t have much of weight problems, but once decided she had to lose 8kg for “effect” related to some outfit for a tango performance and she stopped eating altogether for 5 days. But she didn’t go further than that after the performance. I think she tells the outfit story more as a silly thing she did when young, but I can’t be sure because 1) there is no intonation and mimics and 2) I am not native Russian speaker.
Overall, she seems to have a sense of humor (for example, how her husband had to go as far as the US so that she doesn’t kill him) and seems like a reasonable mother of three. Can’t imagine her starving the skaters.
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if grandma has ***** she would be grandpa
what would have happened if Anna Tarusina didn't suffer in a car accident in 2016 ? http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1617/gpf1617/CAT006RS.HTM
"if" doesn't count
For the most part I agree, and I'm going to miss both of her programs! But, I've noticed sometimes she is so focused on the jumps that she doesn't hit a music point, and tends to rush the transitions. A pretty normal thing, especially when you are attempting so much difficult tech. Alina, in my opinion, tends to do the same.
if grandma has ***** she would be grandpa
what would have happened if Anna Tarusina didn't suffer in a car accident in 2016 ? http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1617/gpf1617/CAT006RS.HTM
"if" doesn't count
Yes of course IF doesn't count. But it is a perfect example of how hard it is with a high tech program with 3A's or quads to beat a clean Alina. Those high TES jumps are risky.
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Everyone is talking about jump BV, but we can’t forget about the spins. Alina consistency gets level 4s with high GOE. No, this does not make up the difference of a quad, but when scores are really close a level 4 spin with +4 GOE vs a level 3 spins with +2 can make the difference.
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I'm glad you like it Fabienne but as you admit millions of people don't.
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I would not say millions don't like it, to many love it all over the world
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if grandma has ***** she would be grandpa
what would have happened if Anna Tarusina didn't suffer in a car accident in 2016 ? http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1617/gpf1617/CAT006RS.HTM
"if" doesn't count
I think I remember that car accident. Poor girl. Wasn't she badly injured?
But why did you show the standings of the junior Grand Prix final? Because Anna would have been there too with Alina and Nastya?
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Nah its not about winning [emoji6] but even if you do not watch it, the music that was written for this show is beyond amazing, powerful and emotionalOkay you win.
I wish that they would give Trusova something different from what they've given her; no one's saying she has to be an ice princess or something but outside of 'Big Spender' her programs were all 1 note performances - I would say the same thing about Kostornaia's programs this season.
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I agree with the sentiment and generally with everyone else wanting to see more from Trusova and Kostornaia, but I think people need to keep in mind that they've only been skating for two seasons. Compare what some others skated to their first two international junior seasons:
Yuna Kim: Snowstorm (SP), Papa, Can You Hear Me (FS), El Tango de Roxanne (SP), Papa, Can You Hear Me (FS)
Mao Asada: Over the Rainbow (SP), La Boutique Fantastique (FS), Carmen (SP), Nutcracker (FS)
Carolina Kostner: Canon in D (SP), Papa, Can You Hear Me + Schindler's List (FS), Song from a Secret Garden (SP), and then a medley that includes Violin Fantasy on Turandot (FS)
Sasha Cohen: Piano Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninoff (SP), Vivaldi Selections (SP), Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn (FS)
There of course is some variety in there, but it's vastly classical music and other warhorses--and then these skaters developed into versatile skaters capable of portraying different characters OR skating to a general mood. It's a little vexing how hard we are on these juniors, expecting them to do something completely different every season without realizing they need time to develop the maturity to portray themes on the ice that don't come naturally to them. Their talent is undeniable already, so why belittle them by focusing on these nitpicky flaws, just to find something to criticize? They've been skating for two seasons. Given how senior skaters often skate the same programs repeatedly without getting called out for their lack of versatility (cough cough, Ashley Wagner and Moulin Rouge for what feels like five years), can we all just wait another year or two before we start slotting skaters into our own made-up cubbyholes? "Oh, this one is the all-technical skater. And this one is the artistic one." Let them grow.
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The thing is, outside of 'Big Spender', she's had three international programs. I can see how her two programs this year were of a similar note (although imo they were quite different but I can see your point), but I think the Vivaldi one was different from her two this year as it was more of a warhorse. But again, she hasn't even had a senior career so its not like they've had a lot of seasons to give her a variety of programs. In addition, after listening to her GOT pieces they chose, I think these will be quite different from anything she's done, as there's quite a soft side to those songs in addition to the intensity she is good at. Hopefully they'll choose sp music that is something different too, and I just hope that people haven't already pigeon-holed her into the category of being just a jumping bean and are willing to see the improvement that I think will come - she's just a junior after all and plenty of people don't blossom artistically until their senior career, which is what I think will happen with her. I just hope people will be willing to notice and accept change and improvement from her and not call her a jumping bean because thats whats she's "known" as. Sadly I already see this with Shcherbakova. She imo is one of the most musical/artistic skaters out there, but because she jumps a quad people reduce her to another Eteri jumping bean with no SS and INT, when that is the farthest thing from true.
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Well I hope the right girl gets this music then.
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Yes, she is one of the most consistent skaters and I think she could make podium there and at many other competitions later. But "if" doesn't count.
(...and because Kihira was "crushed" by Alina at that JGPF
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and don't forget step sequences - to get lvl 4 you should make at least 11 difficult turns and steps. Alina perform at least 19 and always get high GOE.
You are waiting for nothing. Alina is not in Moscow, neither Daniil or Eteri. I expect some photos from Florida soon.[emoji16][emoji41]
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Really? Are they in Florida for vacation or for shows?
For holidays.
And Alina is back to her hometown for some days.
