- Joined
- Feb 2, 2011
Sarah Hughes used to be number 1 on my list of worst OGM ever, until Adelina unseeded her this year. I remember when Sarah won and as I recall, Irina made errors that justified Sarah being awarded the OGM over her. Adelina "winning" was just ridiculous.
Yes, that would be like Sarah beating a clean, superskate by Michelle. Sarah won because she was clean and because everything fell into place that night for her to place first. Scott said it himself that Sarah will be sending Irina flowers for the rest of her life. I never cared for Sarah's skating, I always found something awkward and childish about it. She did have a great layback though but I don't agree that her spirals were all that spectacular. Especially since we had both Sasha and Michelle doing such strong solid gorgeous spirals at the time.
I still subscribe to idea that 'it's not just about jumps' and without her jumps Adelina would be in 20th place. There is nothing there, she's rough, robotic and flat.