You don't have to wait too long. Tomorrow we have 6 more Russian girls to look forward to. Valieva, Sinitsyna, Vasilieva, Shcherbakova, Tuktamysheva, Samodurova. Have your popcorn and coffee ready.
2019-20 Russian Ladies' Figure Skating
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You don't have to wait too long. Tomorrow we have 6 more Russian girls to look forward to. Valieva, Sinitsyna, Vasilieva, Shcherbakova, Tuktamysheva, Samodurova. Have your popcorn and coffee ready.
Seriously though, can you imagine Eteri letting Evgenia step on the ice dressed like that?
What were they thinking?
Who the hell cares what Eteri thinks or says? She is not her couach anymore and the costume is amazing
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I'm glad she was able to put out a clean performance with an effortless 3F3T (seriously don't think it's looked this good since her last Gold at Worlds) and solid improvements on 2A and 3Lz. I knew she had it in her at the test skates but I'm glad she was able to convince at least some others as well
Hopefully her free skate can go as well, too, but don't forget she said her technique and skating is improved & feels good but she still needs to work physically, so let's not expect too much too soon 
Regardless, 3 points away from the lead and 15 points ahead of 3rd place is a great place to be.
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Ending the costume discussion. I think it's very refreshing to see a clean performance from Evgenia so soon with a SP score higher than anything received in international competition last year! We had to wait much much much longer last season for a result like this.
You're right! I realise now that she didn't even score that much at Worlds. Looking good.
Seriously though, can you imagine Eteri letting Evgenia step on the ice dressed like that?
What were they thinking?
Eteri "let" Yulia get on the ice in this dress of course if I remember correctly at this point there had already been speculation that Yulia wanted to leave or was going to leave - Eteri might've been done with her at that point.
Because that would be acknowledging Zagitova has a technical disadvantage and she and her coaching team have put her in the same position that Evgenia was in 2018 - they watched a couple of junior girls train more difficult elements and from what we can see (and this is a group that appears to love to post on instagram their difficult jumps) hasn't done much in the way of training elements to match those Jr girls. Now those Jr. girls are seniors and she's got to play catch-up. The benefits she has over Evgenia is that she's 2 years out from the Olympics so she can possibly train quads and/or a triple axel and hopefully overcome any injuries that she might get trying to train the elements, whereas Evgenia it was an Olympic year she had to attempt to play the points game that Alina had. Additionally she has the benefit that she' been to and won the Olympics - it might be a bit of stain on her career for the talking heads and internet forums to talk about if she never makes it to another major competition again, but she's won everything at the end of the day; she could retire today with an incredibly successful senior career.
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Talking TES only, Rika absolutely had the right advantage. As much as I love Zhenya she does not have the technical score to best a clean Rika right now. I thought the PCS fairly apportioned. Both ladies felt a little tentative today but I would expect both to improve rapidly as the season begins in earnest.
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Don't need to be rude to defend Evgenia. Direct your discontent towards the offensive posters here, Eteri didn't said anything about this suit
I'm not defending Evgenia, not her fan, haven't said a word about her costume and actually haven't even seen it yet (juggling priorities here). have seen some of Eteri's girls in previous years and they are too often arch and affected, but it's clear the target audience and the judges like arch and affected on prepubescent girls, so she's doing okay by them.
Rika had higher TES by +5 points. She got over 11 points on her 3A. TES is the name of the game these days.
The problem with the Ladies skating today is that the TES score is in average 15% higher than the PCS score in ladies short programs. TES vs PCS should be 50-50. It's not. Add to that, 20% of the PCS, SS and Transitions, are in fact technical scores in my opinion. So there is just 20-30% of the score left for Performance, Interpretation, Composition.
You can't beat someone with a good performance if it just counts 20-30% against a technical skater.
I thought Rika deserved the first place due to the 3A, but i really liked Evgenia's SP, choreography maybe more. (it's growing on me and the costume works for that music)
Karen Chen a little underscored in my opinion.
Do we have protocols from Autumn Classic? i can't find them on ISU or Skate Canada website.
Karen Chen a little underscored in my opinion.
Do we have protocols from Autumn Classic? i can't find them on ISU or Skate Canada website.
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I loved Medvedeva and Kihira's performances today. The result was fair although I think Rika deserved better SS and TR marks. But, on the performance side Evgenia was definitely better.
The protocols are here: https://skatecanada.ca/2019-autumn-classic-international/
The protocols are here: https://skatecanada.ca/2019-autumn-classic-international/
I use Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_skating_season
They have all competitions listed and the scores too. Easy to follow.
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Every time I wander into this thread to hear thoughts/share my opinions on someone's programs or performances, it seems like some awful comments are being made that make me want to run the other way from this entire sport.
Anyway - I'm liking this SP for Evgenia. She's not totally committing to the performance yet but I'm hoping that comes with time and consistency (fingers crossed!). I've been wanting her to take more of this kind of route since her Olympic season Chopin SP, which I loved for its simplicity and beauty and her ability to communicate that.
Anyway - I'm liking this SP for Evgenia. She's not totally committing to the performance yet but I'm hoping that comes with time and consistency (fingers crossed!). I've been wanting her to take more of this kind of route since her Olympic season Chopin SP, which I loved for its simplicity and beauty and her ability to communicate that.
