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2024 CS Lombardia Trophy Women's FS
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Hope you have fun watching tomorrow, I'll be on an island looking at flowers 
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I maintain that Benoit's biggest crime is refusing to let Kaori keep The Piano for the Olympic seasonCongrats to Amber! Well done!
Great job by Sarah too!
Kaori...maybe just bring back The Piano until next season
Her current hair color is the least of her problems, IMO
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Okay now, it's 3 am and I need to go to bed in order to regain both physical and mental energy for yet another day of figure skating. Thank you all so much for keeping me company, see you tomorrow 
Yes… quite madbut you know, she is missing a 3 jump combo... and you, especially you, should note that
about that She should do a 3Lo 2A 2A combo in the second half. Considering she can land a 3A, this should be doable. She lost 4 points from this lack of attempt.
So much potential Amber!
I have a feeling she will be top 5 with this SB for the rest of the season. This is great for her, heading to Olympic cycle
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I maintain that Benoit's biggest crime is refusing to let Kaori keep The Piano for the Olympic season
And yet right now, I'd prefer she ditch the new FS for one of her Richaud programs
Not a fan of Benoit nor most of his choreo but at least Kaori's "Woman" FS ended up feeling appropriate for that particular Olympics
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have swept 1-2 at the first two challengers!! USA Nationals will be exciting
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This seems to strongly be pointing towards her planning to include an +1Eu+3S combination. I know she hasn't done it in competition before, but surely people still remember the video of her glorious 3F+1Eu+3F combination in training in 2020?
After all, +2A+SEQ are out of the question, she can't do (2A)+3T+2T as she has done before (with one Lutz) and the other option would be (3Lo)+2T+2Lo, which doesn't help her BV much at all.
Unless she decides to go back to her old layout, in which case none of this matters in the end.
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Soooooo Is Sarah getting the host spot now for Skate America?
I believe they gave this spot to Elyce already.
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She's going to Finland
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Ah I see...
It's true we had never seen +1Eu+3S from Kaori so I hadn't even considered it
I feel like I don't know where it would go, though...didn't look like she was planning on adding anything to the second 3F, so ending with a 3Lo+1Eu+3S? Super gutsy if so but we know she is very capable of backloading the combos. Perhaps the 2nd 3Lz was meant to be 3Lz+1Eu+3S...in which case the total BV is just 0.5 more than the old layout 
Alas we will see the result in a month or so
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Not sure why, but I like Kaori Sakamoto program better when she was choregraph by Benoit Richaud.
Why did she change her choreographer ? He make her great program with the matrix and gladiator.
If I was Kaori, I would go back to Benoit Richaud, he made better program for her.
Why did she change her choreographer ? He make her great program with the matrix and gladiator.
If I was Kaori, I would go back to Benoit Richaud, he made better program for her.
I'm so happy that Amber was able to manage the pressure and have a decent FS. Some things to work on obviously but a great outing for her overall. Seems like a much more manageable layout. I have to say though that the music was pretty dreary. I think she could have chosen better. Beautiful costume.
My favorite is Kaori though. Mistakes aside, I will watch anything she skates to. I loved the program and the choreography. Just so fun. I agree that it's kind of a whimsical choice for a 3x world champion as a pre-Olympic FS, but she sold it for me!
Sarah is unflappable. She obviously needs to work on presentation and exhibiting emotion, but this was someone who was not on anyone's radar until last year's US Nationals, and she's now beaten the World Champion and the World silver medalist by delivering her jumps consistently. Pretty amazing. Her opening 3Lz had Tatiana Malinina written all over it. I'm surprised she doesn't do a 3-3 in the FS and hasn't shown a more difficult 3-3 other than 3T-3T. She seems like she could do difficult 3-3s easily, and the higher BV would also help her lower PCS right now.
My favorite is Kaori though. Mistakes aside, I will watch anything she skates to. I loved the program and the choreography. Just so fun. I agree that it's kind of a whimsical choice for a 3x world champion as a pre-Olympic FS, but she sold it for me!
Sarah is unflappable. She obviously needs to work on presentation and exhibiting emotion, but this was someone who was not on anyone's radar until last year's US Nationals, and she's now beaten the World Champion and the World silver medalist by delivering her jumps consistently. Pretty amazing. Her opening 3Lz had Tatiana Malinina written all over it. I'm surprised she doesn't do a 3-3 in the FS and hasn't shown a more difficult 3-3 other than 3T-3T. She seems like she could do difficult 3-3s easily, and the higher BV would also help her lower PCS right now.
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No she didn't, you are mixing her with someone else. Selma is born 2002.Didn´t Selma just compete at JGP? Maybe a bit too much with back to back competitions.
On a total not serious note she has very elegant pops of jumps
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