Zhang / Bartholomay: 55.83 was their previous PB. They just got 11 points more than that!
Either they all do jumps that are twice as high as they ever did before, or the US has risen the build-up to new heights! That's like... if they were allowed to do 2 sbs 3Flips each after their program, and they'd get the points on top! lol
It could be a surprise who's going to be on the Olympic team. D/C usually go out to good sized lead after the SP but they were sloppy.
Eh, Nationals inflation is a fact of life.
But with them scoring as high as they did and Denney/Coughlin landing in second, makes me wonder what the US will do if the positions remain Z/B in first. Probably send 1/2 as usual. Though if D/C overtake first, I wonder if the US would send S/K if they were in a close third to Z/B due to previous results. Someone's going to get hurt no matter what.
I agree with you guys about a nationals only sub. Because of where I live virtually everything else in the subscription is blacked out to me, but here we NEVER and I mean NEVER see any skating on TV so it is worth it to pay the amount to see some great skating live, for a week of the year!
But I'm disappointed that they are behind D/C since 2 falls vs doubling the T should be pretty equal.
Double Toe = 1.3
triple sal = 4 but with -3 GOE and then -2 for the 2 falls. They might be getting negative point for this element. Not pretty equal at all.