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2025 JGP Riga Women's Free Skate

A demonstration of resilience by Aleksandra, after that freak fall and hard crash into the boards, gutsy to get back up and go for the jump combination. Hope she's not badly hurt. Some of the jumps are difficult - pops the loop, falls on the 3Lz. She's hitting her spin levels, and that's a nice choreo sequence, with the lunge and the hydroblade, and her awareness of the music.
 
A rough start for Nora, but she puts it behind her and has a good skate afterwards. A rather wild 2T pop at the start, and a fall on the 3Lo, but the 3F gets her back into the swing of things. Ooh, an early choreo sequence, that's a different choice. She gets that free leg back on the landing of the salchow without overbalancing, well done her, and finishes the sequence nicely. Bravo for backloading the final combinations, and for having a little choreography in between them.
 
Annika has high energy and lots of detail in her skating from the start. She seems unfazed by the falls and pop, just bounces back up and gets straight back into her programme, whizzing back and forth. Think she gave that one spin a bit too much attack, hence it going a little wild. She has a nice split jump.
 
Not clean, but very engaged and promising from Katrine. A new hope?
Indeed, she is only 13 and probably one of the youngest at this stage. She is born in September 2011. Katrine just came up from novice - this isn´t just her first JGP, but her first competition as a junior skater! So that she was able to skate so well in the free at the first JGP with very little international experience, shows great promise. It was only last season she started to do triples in her programs, I remember her before as a promising skater, but only with double jumps. All though her spins needs work here, I like that variations and spins positions, it´s something different that I usually see from the other Norwegian skaters. Once she figures it out, she will have the whole package IMO and offer something unique and different. Not to mention her bold choice of music and dresses. She is practising triple lutz and flips, you can see it on her Instagram - katricequeen. Apparently she is half Russian? Her ISU bio says Russian/Norwegian skater. Her surname though sounds Norwegian. Something other I found out - according to Nora Bruckner, Katrine used to skate for Hungary before? I don´t know what ties she has to Hungary, but that is interesting. She started skating at 5 years. I think she will be senior eligble just in time for the next Olympic season?!
 
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