To be honest, you can't really blame the American commentators for this particular comment. Many Eulers (honestly, almost all) look like step-outs. Rika Kihira has a nice Eu. Sofia A. also has a nice Euler but those are honestly the only two skaters even now who I can think of that don't make their Eulers look like step-outs
Artur Danielian does it.
This was the year when she introduced the Eul+2S. She upgraded it the next season to a 3S.
You sorta can, if Butyrskaya had skated similar combinations before. It implies that the commentators didn't do their homework, which to me is pretty unforgivable considering they're getting paid to commentate the event. The least they could do is look at the top competitors' past skates.
That could be, but Bute was such a trippy, awkward and clumsy skater. It's really hard to blame the commentators. I remember when Dick Button was commentating some competition with Nancy Kerrigan and he gasped during her footwork thinking she stumbled. He obviously didn't know that Kerrigan's stumble was actually intended as part of her choreography. Why would she do that? Ask Mary, I guess. But Maria is the kind of skater that looks like she's made a mistake even if she actually didn't.
Yes, this was Butyrskaya's skate of her life. Dick Button was usually very critical about her, criticising her sometimes stiff landing leg, and he never had any good to say about her spins. I think this is the only time DB had something nice to say about her.
Well, in DB's defense, this WAS the first time Maria did that Euler combo. He was very well aware of Maria's past skates.
I’m wayyy to young for Dick Button and his commentary, but from what I’ve heard he was usually pretty critical to anyone who wasn’t American.
I would say he was critical of anyone who didn't fit his ideal of a figure skater. Most skaters didn't
And you are pretty right!
I was thinking of her, you're right
You will probably have to wait until Test Skates. Last year they also waited until Test SkatesI was thinking of her, you're right
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Any idea on when programs will start being announced? Hope they won't want to surprise us at the test skates
Surya Bonaly did very nice ones in her toe-salchow combos around 1994. She usually carried great speed between those jumps and I cringe when I see most Eulers now where the skater has lost so much speed on the first jump's landing.
September 11 and 12 in Chelyabinsk.
Which is the same time as Lombardia Trophy. So there will be no Russian National Team skaters at Lombardia unfortunately...
Well.. russia federation probably is thinking about that
Alexander Kogan(General Director of the Russian Figure Skating Federation) already said that will not be possible, they already have Rostelecom. Finland was brought up as a possibility.
