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Also, I just want to mention that I watched the Junior Girls at the Sunsational AB event. The 3Lo is going to be difficult for our girls. So many 2Lo’s and falls on the 3Lo. However, Annika Benkhe succeeded and landed the 3Lo. She also did a 3Lz 2T and 2A. Too bad she won’t likely be selected for Next Gen this upcoming season 😞
 
Well, Annika was horrible in the free skate. She spent half of her program falling. 4 falls including the 3Lo.
 
saine said:
Kaiya finished behind Sara-Maude at Nationals, Katherine at Warsaw Cup and Uliana at Denis Ten Memorial. She's in the mix, but so are other women.

And Sara-Maude has been pushing herself. She's increasing the difficulty in her free skate with a second 3Lz. Doing a 3T-3T in the short has worked for her this season, especially with the back loaded 3Lz.

Kaiya has some ways to go before she establishes herself as the second best Canadian woman for me. Doing a harder combination in the short isn't enough when it hasn't been going clean. Other women have pushed themselves with a 3Lz-3T in the short, like Uliana, Kara and Lia. It isn't the difficulty that matters, it's landing it that does in competition.
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I agree with all you said !

So, I realise that Maddie is the clear number 1 in Canada and that they others skaters (Sara-Maude, Katherine, Kaiya, Kara, Uliana) have all the possibility to be number 2 in Canada. It just the matter who skate the best at national. But Maddie with her season with the 11th place at world and score at WTT make herself an argument that she is the best in Canada right now.
 
I would say that Maddie is now clearly Canada's number 1. Not just in our eyes, but in the international judges eye. Her performances at worlds and WTT were well done and well received.

I am glad she turned this around.

Just like after missing her opening 3lz-3toe combo in the LP of WTT, she added the 3t after the 3flip.. I didn't think she had that combo in her. WOW... If she had succeeded the axels at WTT, she would have been above 190 total...
 
soccerjc77 said:
I agree with all you said !

So, I realise that Maddie is the clear number 1 in Canada and that they others skaters (Sara-Maude, Katherine, Kaiya, Kara, Uliana) have all the possibility to be number 2 in Canada. It just the matter who skate the best at national. But Maddie with her season with the 11th place at world and score at WTT make herself an argument that she is the best in Canada right now.
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Definitely, and I didn't even include Fee-Ann and Breken in it. They're in it too.

We're going into next season with 6 women (Sara-Maude, Katherine, Kaiya, Breken, Uliana and Fee-Ann) who are going for those 3 4CC spots (assuming Maddie will get the Olympics spot.) It should make for a good competition at Nationals, and there could be more women stepping up in the summer competitions too :popcorn:
 
In fact, I kinda like Sara-Maude Dupuis, I think that's why I'm hard with her, when she skate bad like her WTT FS, she dissapoint me after her good SP :)

I must say, if she want that Olympic spot, her only weapon to become Canada number 1 is to bring that triple axel next season and be consistent with it in her season :


Without triple axel, Maddie will have her ticket easily for the Olympic.
 
soccerjc77 said:
In fact, I kinda like Sara-Maude Dupuis, I think that's why I'm hard with her, when she skate bad like her WTT FS, she dissapoint me after her good SP :)

I must say, if she want that Olympic spot, her only weapon to become Canada number 1 is to bring that triple axel next season and be consistent with it in her season :


Without triple axel, Maddie will have her ticket easily for the Olympic.
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she plans on working on it.. but there are other issues.

If her 3a gets consistent enough, it still doesn't solve that her combo is 3t-3t, that she has a hard time with the flip... and that she doesn't yet repeat consistently the lutz... so one triple axel doesn't bring her up to Maddie's level yet. One other issues, the judges are trying to pigeon-hole her into a category of power skater only... while her skating skills are quite strong and she's much more refined than some. Her positions are good. Her spins are very nicely centered. In other words, she needs judges to mark her higher ... at WTT, her superb SP got below 7 in average. COME ON !
 
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4everchan said:
Women is the field to watch in Canada now. It's amazing the turn around from just a few years ago.
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I agree. Pairs and Women are my favourite events to watch domestically.

For Women, don’t forget Lia Cho will most likely move up to Senior Women after winning junior nationals. She can’t compete internationally next season, so I can’t wait to see how she does domestically at Next Gen, Wild Rose, Cranberry, AB Sectionals, Challenge, Nationals and her one non-NA Novice event.

Also, I’m curious to see if Minsol Kwon can compete domestically in Seniors. She should be a factor, as well. Plus, I heard there was another Junior skater from Russia, like Uliana (has the same technical content), switching to Canada, as well. She might compete in Juniors though… that is why I want to see the NextGen list. It will be hard to podium at Nationals. 180+ is a given to podium with this field of women.
 
RatedPG said:
Also, I’m curious to see if Minsol Kwon can compete domestically in Seniors.
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She should be fine to compete in any non-qualifying domestic competitions (anything but sectional championships/Challenge/Nationals.) I'm leaning towards she's training in Canada rather than switching.
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Plus, I heard there was another Junior skater from Russia, like Uliana (has the same technical content), switching to Canada, as well.
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Viktoria Barakhtina I think? I looked at her Instagram, she looks to be training at the Cricket Club.
 
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saine said:
She should be fine to compete in any non-qualifying domestic competitions (anything but sectional championships/Challenge/Nationals.) I'm leaning towards she's training in Canada rather than switching.

Viktoria Barakhtina I think? I looked at her Instagram, she looks to be training at the Cricket Club.
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But, if Minsol was just training in Canada, surely, she would have competed at the domestic Korean events to nab some international events. Unless, she was injured.

Yes. Viktoria is her name and I remember seeing a video posted at the cricket club. It will be interesting to see how she does at NextGen, if she is eligible to compete for Canada, that is.
 
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But, if Minsol was just training in Canada, surely, she would have competed at the domestic Korean events to nab some international events. Unless, she was injured.
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I'm leaning to just training based on the comments about her intending to compete at Korean Nationals, but I'm not definite on it. Situations can change.
 
saine said:
Robert Brodie interviews Kirsten Moore-Towers:
rwbrodiewrites.substack.com

Meet the Canadian breakout star of #WorldFigure

Kirsten Moore-Towers shared skating insights with fans around the globe in Boston, and it's a career path she's keen to continue in the years ahead.
rwbrodiewrites.substack.com rwbrodiewrites.substack.com
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I really enjoyed her commentary at Worlds and I thought that she and Chris Howarth were a good combination. Better actually than Kirsten and Ted and ?Canadian nationals (or was it Ontario sectionals?).
 
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