Yep definitely. Valieva did too many little uncharacteristic mistakes today to be completely fine.
In Kazan as well - jokes on the world I guess Rus Fed is more reformed than ISU. They had Eteri looking mortified.
what are they saying?
Kamila is stronger than we think, she was skating very slow, I agree with the comment she probably got injured in the warmup fall.
4th place was indeed unexpected, at least going in before the free skates
It literally is better right now. This whole stage was amazing. Everyone was getting really fair GOE and judging. The previous stages Eteri girls were still getting fed points (Maya's inflated score was indefensibly egregious and stole some placement from other girls which was really upsetting, and Petrosian got crazy GOE but she would've won anyways so whatever) but this stage something switched like robots were judging or something.
Is the judging in Russia now better than internationally? I'll take it while it lasts.
Just mentioning all of her mistakes and kind of making excuses for her, like saying that if she didnt repeat the SEQ she would deserve first or something - which is wrong. She just didnt skate well aside from the SEQ. They are just praising her now non stop. Not a word about her messy StSq, stumbles and general instability but just saying the judging was harsh and they disagree.
The placement is fair but i understand that they are shocked. TP judges could have saved her if they wanted. It already happened this season, mostly in men (Kondriatuk for example).
Dasha's triple lutzs are a thing of beauty. My favorite today was Alina G. though-just floored by her speed across the ice.
I think she actually fell but no one noticed first
Yes, Gorbacheva definitely has speed and energy. Top 3 potential based off what we know so far (thought we havent seen Akateva yet), assuming clean ultra-c.
In 2028, sure. Any earlier than that...nope. Russian skating suffered enough not to see justice.
It was really obvious she fell. She was also stumbling and losing speed sporadically in the earlier parts. It was just a really weird stake with how uncontrolled she looked.
