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Ah, here we go again! Another long playing right now... And it's not even 4pm yet, teehehehe
That'd be amazing. Some of the South Korean commercials are just so much fun!
Btw, did Kwak Min Jung make the finals? I haven't caught any of her performances yet. My Korean friend just emailed me and called her the "next Yuna Kim".
This is the best damn Olympics ladies figure skating competition in terms of the top 4 skaters ever. The winner skated two monstrously difficult programs back to back with ease and even a sense of humor. The silver medalist landed 3 triple axels! The bronze medalist landed 7 ratified triples, the most out of anybody in the free. And Ms. 4th place skated a perfect short followed by a perfect long to come in 4th at the Olympics despite having a dismal season internationally prior to this. We have got to do this again.
We will never agree on who the best female skater of all time is because figure skating doesn't have a single number attached to an athlete like 100m dash.
However, I do believe that, in order to be considered as one of the best skaters of all time,
the OGM is not a sufficient, but a necessary condition.
Sorry Michelle. I know it's just a piece of metal with a strip of nylon (polyester?), but in my opinion, it bears that much significance.
That'd be amazing. Some of the South Korean commercials are just so much fun!
Btw, did Kwak Min Jung make the finals? I haven't caught any of her performances yet. My Korean friend just emailed me and called her the "next Yuna Kim".
Yuna would have been 9th in the men's competition, maybe it's time for her to switch?
And regarding Yuna's performance not having the 'fire', which would stir up the audience toward the end, I think her free program was designed to have more flow like water streams than fire. This is more like her Lark Ascending than Scheherazade, you don't really know when is the climax, (there's no place in the program you can clap to the rhythm of the music) but you can't take your eyes off of her until you realize the program is almost over. And I find it extremely attractive, which I don't see much from other skaters. Now that's an opinion from her fan, but I just wanted to say that I think a program can be still very gorgeous with less powerful music.
I don't see how anyone can dispute that Michelle is one of the best skaters of all time. In my opinion, she is the best in terms of her body of work, her technical ability and her competitive record, Olympic gold or not.
They're not.
Now they're hounding that poor girl, demanding to know about why she popped 3T, etc. etc.
And they've already started a bunch of specials, analyzing Mao & Yuna's LP side by side to determine why Mao lost gold.
NHK newsroom mood was very down after Mao's silver.
It's a travesty.
I'd love that. However, after watching Mirai Nagasu skate like that as a 16yo, I can't help but think the next OGM is hers to lose. Aside from a little more strength and maturity that will surely come with age, her skating just has it all. Her performance brought me right out of my seat today.