I will admit that I have zero background in figure skating and fairly new fan of figure skating in general even though my first "it" girl was Debbie Thomas, not Witt. Yes I have casually followed the figiure skating scene since then only to get really hooked into it thanks to Yuna-Mao rivalry. Since my favorite girl, Yuna, is about to retire in the near future, I was wondering about who is going to be my new "it" girl.
During the 2013 World, Li Zijun really caught my eyes. Since I am not good at all those technicality of scoring and everything, my main focus was how beautiful their skating looks to my own (and untrained) eyes. So I was saying to myself, now I am going to be a fan of both Yuna and Zijun.
Then I saw a thread on Polina Edmunds about a month ago here and I thought who is this girl? So I googled and saw 2 clips of her skating on youtube. They were both from 2013 US national I believe and boy, oh boy Polina's skating looked really smooth and beautiful.
Since I live in Korea, I haven't even heard her name until the above-mentioned thread.
So anyone lives in US, please tell me more about Polina Edmunds and her skating skills. And where she stands in terms of pecking order of US women skaters. And why her name is rarely mentioned when you guys were discussing Wagner, Gold, Osmonds etc. Many thanks in advance. ^^
During the 2013 World, Li Zijun really caught my eyes. Since I am not good at all those technicality of scoring and everything, my main focus was how beautiful their skating looks to my own (and untrained) eyes. So I was saying to myself, now I am going to be a fan of both Yuna and Zijun.
Then I saw a thread on Polina Edmunds about a month ago here and I thought who is this girl? So I googled and saw 2 clips of her skating on youtube. They were both from 2013 US national I believe and boy, oh boy Polina's skating looked really smooth and beautiful.
Since I live in Korea, I haven't even heard her name until the above-mentioned thread.
So anyone lives in US, please tell me more about Polina Edmunds and her skating skills. And where she stands in terms of pecking order of US women skaters. And why her name is rarely mentioned when you guys were discussing Wagner, Gold, Osmonds etc. Many thanks in advance. ^^