2014 Olympics Ladies Short Program

[rollerblade]

Zijun has a nice program, great music, great choreography.... but she seems to lack the snappiness needed for this kinda of music.

 

[jkun]

what.

Edit: THis was a response to Sky_fly saying that Gracie deserved 35+ PCS. They did set up Yulia to get sky high PCS though.

 

[Silvia451]

I liked Gracie a lot. With a clean FS, maybe she'll be on the podium.

 

[Ven]

That score seems a bit high for Gracie, I'd probably have her at 66-67.

 

[Mrs. P]

68+ That should be enough to put her as part of the OBM hunger games.

 

[Ophelia]

Gee, Gracie Gold is overscored. Now I'm wondering how high Julia's scores will get inflated.

 

[usethis2]

The forum is almost freezing here

 

[hurrah]

such a cutie.

 

[sequinsgalore]

LI Zijun (CHN)

Music: Tango by J. Plaza

Black asymmetric dress. Pink underskirt, sequins on top

3F+3T - seemed okay, perhaps 3T<
3Lz - e
FCSp
CCoSp
2A
StSq
LSp

Solid skate, she can proud of that. She fist pumps

SP: 30.01+27.54 = 57.55, in 5th (out of 23)

 

[CarneAsada]

That's not true, and very rude. A new WR is not an insured score, but a likely, had Yuna been given the same inflation embedded as Yulia's Teams', which was the least of respect to judging we could've expected from this event...

There is no other way to describe the thinking that she would beat a world record she earned with an extra element worth about 4 points. Well other words might include "deluded" or "preposterous" if you prefer. I might add that if she hit all her levels, her max score would have been 84 points if she got 10s for PCS and +3 GOE on every element (and I am aware some of her fans think she deserves that, but we are not in her Fan Fests thread). Julia's overscoring is quite another issue. Yuna has not been "underscored" here in the slightest unless your definition of "underscored" is "not being overscored like the Russians" (who have not skated yet anyway).

 

[Ven]

Good luck Akiko! Hoping for something around Gracie's score and make the final 6.

 

[Ambivalent]

LI Zijun (CHN)

Music: Tango by J. Plaza

Black asymmetric dress. Pink underskirt, sequins on top

3F+3T - seemed okay, perhaps 3T<
3Lz - e
FCSp
CCoSp
2A
StSq
LSp

Solid skate, she can proud of that. She fist pumps

Will she get called for the flutz? Yulia?

 

[Rikku]

Zijun Li CHN....57.55 (into 5th)

 

[ahy]

maybe because of julia's mark so that we think that kim is underscored...

 

[ARipp42014]

57.55 and in 5th!

Go Akiko!

 

[ClockwiseSpinner]

GO Akiko!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[WeakAnkles]

The tech panel is like a stern Victorian nanny. Tough, tough, tough. Hope Akiko has a successful skate...

Maura O'Connell, a wonderful Irish singer, does a beautiful version of that song on her album Just in Time. (She's my favorite singer, so I'm plugging her!)

 

[jkun]

That was a Low low score for Zijun? What did she mess up? Especially her technical score seems low..

 

[Dutchie]

68+ That should be enough to put her as part of the OBM hunger games.

Love it! Let the Hunger Games begin!!

 

[usethis2]

Holy wow. She got below 58 with that performance while Gracie got 68?? Gracie surely got gifted.

Edit: OK I didn't know there was an edge call and downgrade. But still, Gracie's score is way higher than what the panel has been giving out to everyone else.