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- Mar 21, 2005
Carolina has designed and created her 2011/2012 competition costumes. If you scroll down this page, you see the drafts. Quite impressive!
http://www.carolina-kostner.it/E-costumes.htm
until last year i never liked carolina's skating. She skated fast, but fell many times and looked coltish. Suddenly last year i found her skating mature and enjoyable. This year she is more consistent in her jumps, more controlled, and a joy to watch. I am almost a fan at this point. Imo she should have won skate america over alissa, whom i like quite a lot. Carolina needs to work on her spins though. At the recent sa, her spins looked really weak.
Like the poster above, I never ever considered myself a fan of Carolina at all. To be honest, she was my least-favorite skater and much of that stemmed from what I saw as overmarking on her scores. Yet she blew me away last season at Worlds as the last skater to skate and the one who truly won me over in the ladies LP. Her performance to "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" was unique and spell-binding to say the least. That LP performance of hers is one of my personal favorites of the season 2010-2011. I know I am not the only one who thinks that Carolina should have won SA but it is what it is. Carolina just needs to keep doing what she is doing and improve her spins and increase her jump difficulty. I hope she has a good season
i like carolina's long program unitard very much, now that i've had more time to absorb its impact. i still think the bracelet on the sleeveless arm completely breaks the impression of long lines that she otherwise managed to create. she skips the skirt, but then she has this other... obstruction. ^^ though i see it on so many costumes this season--S/S long, tut's long program red dress, akiko's short, zijun li's short... i just can't get behind the fat bracelet / naked cuff look