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Y'all should have seen my face when I heard Ted's voice come on and I remembered he was commentating 
His best moments: almost quitting his job over Akatieva's name and declaring "all the way around" during the slow-mo of her clearly under rotated triple axel.
Akatieva was good, a decent performer if not outstanding, nice save on the triple toe, probably deserved an edge call on the lutz.
Muravyeva reminds me of Radionova, a little over the top with the arms but I was totally here for the performance, interpretation, and emotion. Her shoulders get really high on the jumps though.
Petrosyan is also a natural performer, which I appreciate, but that double axel was very low and had a scary inside edge landing, probably should have gotten less GoE. Not sure about the lutz edge.
Samoldelkina doesn't leave me with much of an impression as far as performance, great double axel, was very close on the triple, does have the posture issue Fluture mentioned.
Beretovskaya's lack of extension was really hard to watch throughout the whole program, but her lutz-cabriole was wonderful.
Tsibinova was by far the most beautiful to watch, really looked like a senior lady, it's never the skaters like her with the strongest jumps unfortunately
Zhilina was tough, has no chance at the podium tomorrow. Will probably never be a performer and another scary inside edge landing on the double axel. I'm wondering, since she didn't do a combination, shouldn't one of her elements have received zero credit?
His best moments: almost quitting his job over Akatieva's name and declaring "all the way around" during the slow-mo of her clearly under rotated triple axel.Akatieva was good, a decent performer if not outstanding, nice save on the triple toe, probably deserved an edge call on the lutz.
Muravyeva reminds me of Radionova, a little over the top with the arms but I was totally here for the performance, interpretation, and emotion. Her shoulders get really high on the jumps though.
Petrosyan is also a natural performer, which I appreciate, but that double axel was very low and had a scary inside edge landing, probably should have gotten less GoE. Not sure about the lutz edge.
Samoldelkina doesn't leave me with much of an impression as far as performance, great double axel, was very close on the triple, does have the posture issue Fluture mentioned.
Beretovskaya's lack of extension was really hard to watch throughout the whole program, but her lutz-cabriole was wonderful.
Tsibinova was by far the most beautiful to watch, really looked like a senior lady, it's never the skaters like her with the strongest jumps unfortunately
Zhilina was tough, has no chance at the podium tomorrow. Will probably never be a performer and another scary inside edge landing on the double axel. I'm wondering, since she didn't do a combination, shouldn't one of her elements have received zero credit?
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That's such a bummer! I was really pleased to see a level 4.
