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Ladies FS - Cup of China 2013

Becki

Medalist
Joined
Nov 28, 2011
OMG who would've guessed the Chinese Champion would end up last among her compatriots, and maybe overall :/ I hope Zijun Li recovers well for the Olympics!
 

sequinsgalore

Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 12, 2008
Agnes ZAWADZKI (USA)

Music: La Cumparsita; Tango Jalousie

Black sparkly long-sleeved lace dress w/ open back and keyhole cutout

3Lo - landed, her first internationally? Perhaps <
3T+2T - wonky
3F - e
StSq
3Lz+2T - hand down on lutz
FCSp
3Lz - ina bauer entry, fall. Looked <
2S+2T+2Lo - twofooted, turn out
LSp
1A - wonky
ChSq
CCoSp - bit shaky on camel

I guess we're used to it now. 1 fall, 3 pops and several shaky landings

Score: 43.26+51.65-1.00=93.91, 147.64, 1st out of 4
 

Becki

Medalist
Joined
Nov 28, 2011
Agnes ZAWADZKI (USA)

Music: La Cumparsita; Tango Jalousie

Black sparkly long-sleeved lace dress w/ open back and keyhole cutout

3Lo - landed, her first internationally?
3T+2T - wonky
3F - e
StSq
3Lz+2T - hand down on lutz
FCSp
3Lz - ina bauer entry, fall
2S+2T+2Lo - twofooted, turn out
LSp
1A - wonky
ChSq
CCoSp - bit shaky on camel

I guess we're used to it now. 1 fall, 3 pops and several shaky landings

3 pops? What are the other two besides the 1A?
 

yuki

Final Flight
Joined
Mar 2, 2012
OMG who would've guessed the Chinese Champion would end up last among her compatriots, and maybe overall :/ I hope Zijun Li recovers well for the Olympics!

And Xiaowen beats both Kexin and Zijun in the FS.
 

MaiKatze

Record Breaker
Joined
Feb 4, 2012
Nice work on the camera crew part by immediately cutting to some guy on what looked like a Kindle RIGHT after her program ended. :rolleye:

Yep, good job. Why even bother going when you obviously don't care and rather be somewhere else. Could have pretended to be interested at least. That said the arena looks better visited than yesterday.
 

samson

Medalist
Joined
Aug 10, 2012
What a shame for Zijun!

And Agnes looked visibly upset after her FS too. She seemed to start out strong, but then the mistakes just started to add up.

With 93.91 she manages to stay in 1st but was actually second in the free.
 

yuki

Final Flight
Joined
Mar 2, 2012
3 pops? What are the other two besides the 1A?

I'm guessing 3T-2T (supposed to be 3-3) and maybe the 2S?
(not sure if she was going for 3Lz-2T or 3Lz-3T - if it's the latter, then the 2S was intentional)

ETA: sorry, my mistake - if she intended to do 3T-3T then she couldn't also plan 3Lz-3T
 

mirai4life

1Lo <
Record Breaker
Joined
Jan 26, 2013
Excited for the 2 Japanese and Adelina (Hopefully, she can prove that she deserves to go to the Olympics)
 

sequinsgalore

Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 12, 2008
Nikol GOSVIANI (RUS)

Music: Prelude G-moll, op. 23 No. 5 by Sergei Rachmaninov

Black sheer dress with white underlay. Lace straps

3F+3T - hard fall, 3T looked borderline <
2A
2S - tilted
FCCoSp
3Lz+2T
CCoSp
3S
3F - twofooted
StSq
ChSq
2T
CCoSp

Rough start which made her slow throughout, sadly. About 3 clean triples only

Score: 45.80+53.48-1.00 = 98.28, 152.04, in 1st (out of 5)
 

Shayuki

Record Breaker
Joined
Nov 2, 2013
Hmmm...

Having watched nearly every competition this fall thus far, the quality of competition here is looking really low, to be honest. :/ It's much weaker than Skate America / Canada were, in my opinion. Xiaowen did really well in the FS here with everything considered, others have been... terrible overall, to be frank. In fact, I'm not sure why Xiaowen got rated so lowly in her program. It wasn't perfect, but it certainly wasn't only 1-3 points ahead of these past FS programs. She should have scored somewhat higher, in my opinion. Especially in presentation when we compare with Kexin in particular. Then again, I'm no judging expert...

I typed this before this last performance but Nikol really wasn't very good, either.

Hopefully the rest of the competitors will do better and we'll have a high quality podium performances but thus far this is looking to be the weakest GP of the series by far(for Ladies).
 

sequinsgalore

Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 12, 2008
Wow, I do NOT like Carolina Kostners dress. It's not flattering

Red/pinkish longsleeved top with lots of gold lamé details. Blue tulle skirt
 

yuki

Final Flight
Joined
Mar 2, 2012
Yes! Adelina has changed that terrible costume she had at Japan Open.
Is Carolina's costume intended to be a mashup of every Scheherazade costume ever?
 

EdgeCall

Record Breaker
Joined
Mar 31, 2012
I guess we will see today what we have seen yesterday: Adelina and Caro going in with self-confidence, the rest, not so much. It will be interesting to see how Anna is holding up.
 
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