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- May 4, 2013
Yes, Yuka Sato was wonderful. The judging was strange. In what bizarro universe does Laetitia Hubert place ahead of a clean Yuka Sato???? It was hard to figure out where to put Harding. I mean, she was her usual tacky self skating to "People are Still Having Sex" and she couldn't buy a 3axel yet still kept trying it. Bonaly was most perplexing because she was just a horrid skater at that time. I'd have probably had the SP: 1. Yamaguchi 2. Kerrigan 3. Ito 4. Sato 5. Harding 6. Chen 7. Hubert 8. Bonaly
Everything bad in FS came together: Yuka Sato drew the N°1 in the SP, which back then was pretty much a death sentence. :no: The French FFSG had done huge Lobbying for Bonaly (she had just won her 2nd straight Euros, and they still cried foul for what they called too low marks... Gailhaguet was still her coach then! ), and Hubert was the Junior World Champion, skating clean (and fast!) and with a late starting draw at home... I agree with most of your ranking, though I'd probably still find a few I'd put over Bonaly
Like these 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBZdeaoRD6c (Kulovana: starting number 2 - "almost-death" sentence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CU4k9BJf2E (Torp-Lind: no-name)
I'd have had 1.Yamaguchi; 2.Kerrigan; 3.Sato; 4.Ito; 5.Hubert; 6.Torp-Lind; 7.Kulovana; 8.Chen; 9.Harding; 10.Bonaly