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OWG and WTT scores count for SBs and PBs as well, BTW.
2016 Junior Worlds Ladies Short Program
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OWG and WTT scores count for SBs and PBs as well, BTW.
Also OWG Team event scores count but YOG Team event does not.
Yes, but no OWG and WTT in this season.
And skaters who skate at OWG and WTT don't compete as Juniors. Theoretically they can if young enough, practically - no.
I am interested to see what Wakaba brings to the table here. Since she didn't make it to JGPF she has spent this entire time training with Polina in her cross-hairs. She certainly doesn't want a repeat of last year. If Polina makes a major mistake then Mariya could potentially be in the run for the gold too.
Man it's sort of sad that SP never saw the light of day (except for those who saw it in summer comps) -- I would have love to see what a program to Deee-Lite would have been like!
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At the Bavarian Open, Tyler fell on the 3F in the short, but landed it cleanly in the FS, with all positive GOE. I'm curious to see how she fares with the jump at Junior Worlds.
It is quite possible that Canada will not have a lady make it into the free skate again this year. Sarah's best short program score is not going to cut it here. She will need to step things up if she has a chance to make it through. Her free score is better but if she doesn't clean a good short it won't matter.
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Wishing her her best ever skate in the SP!
I might just be partial to danse macabre...That would be sad, because Canadian ladies would get shorted in the JGP again. Why doesn't Canada send the best age-eligible Senior lady to JW? Sending inexperienced skaters to JW that can't make the FS or finish way down in the standings means next year, few younger skaters get a chance to gain experience and the same cycle starts all over again.
Sarah Tamura is strong enough to advance to FS. 3Lz+2T and 3F - not top, but good jumping content. FSSp is her problem, she popped it both at JGP and Nationals.
If she will skate as at Nationals, no problem to be at FS.
The problem is she doesn't have enough experience that even if she makes a small mistake she will be dinged hard. Yes she can make it into the FS but she will have to have her best ever international SP. Of all the Canadian JR ladies on the JGP this year Sarah has the lowest SP score, by a long shot. And even her international PB is not even close to the other Can JR ladies.
How did she get the JW slot, then? By winning Canadian JR Nationals?
She was 13th at JGP Latvia out of 32 skaters: 21st in the SP with 34.87, and 8th in the FS with 93.62. She was probably scared stiff in her first international outing, hence the bad placement in the SP. But JW is a whole lot scarier than a JGP, and there's a lot more pressure on her with JGP seats for next season dependent on her performance.
She was 13th at JGP Latvia out of 32 skaters: 21st in the SP with 34.87, and 8th in the FS with 93.62. She was probably scared stiff in her first international outing, hence the bad placement in the SP. But JW is a whole lot scarier than a JGP, and there's a lot more pressure on her with JGP seats for next season dependent on her performance.
Lack of International experience?
WHAT?
Lipnitskaia (won her International debut JGP Event, debut JrWorlds, debut Euro), Radionova (won her Int. debut at Triglav Trophy 2012, debut JGP Event, debut JrWorlds), Medvedeva (won her Int. debut JGP Event, debut GP Event, debut Euro), Tuktamysheva and Osmond and Pogorilaya (won their debut GP Events), Hicks and Gold and Edmunds (won their Int. debut JGP Events) and many others laughing in your face from podium.
I believe it is better to wish Sarah Tamura good luck and clean skating. She can do it.
Yes. And of competitors of these JrNats she is the only girl who looks as competitive skater, others look like "adult skaters" (not by age but by level). More than 17 points from 2nd place, and, I repeat, she was the only who looked strong.
The Russian skaters go through extensive internal competitions against one another year after year, month after month. And it is very tough competition. US competitors don't do anything even close to what the Russian girls do, but they have club competitions during the year, and then the best ones do the top summer events leading up to the JGP or ISU B events. US Regionals and Sectionals are often not particularly tough competitions because many of the top skaters are exempt due to international assignment conflicts.
Unfortunately, the Canadian girls don't have as much organized competition as the US. There are 3 major Canadian competitions, and Sarah Tamura competed at one, the BC Summer Skate. She won Group 1, and was first of 15 Junior skaters. The problem is there were three groups of Junior skaters, and the winners of the other two groups never compete against one another. That is the way competition is in Canada at all three major Summer competitions.
In the US, when you have large groups, the top 3-5 of the groups compete against one another in a final free skate (US Regionals are organized that way, too). Sarah Tamura competed at Skate Detroit, a US summer competition, but she finished fourth in her group and did not make the final (the top 3 made the final at that competition).
Yes, Sarah may have looked strong compared to her competition at Nationalsl but the competition she is facing at JW is nothing like the competition she faced at home, and it is even tougher than the competition she faced in Latvia.
Unfortunately, the Canadian girls don't have as much organized competition as the US. There are 3 major Canadian competitions, and Sarah Tamura competed at one, the BC Summer Skate. She won Group 1, and was first of 15 Junior skaters. The problem is there were three groups of Junior skaters, and the winners of the other two groups never compete against one another. That is the way competition is in Canada at all three major Summer competitions.
In the US, when you have large groups, the top 3-5 of the groups compete against one another in a final free skate (US Regionals are organized that way, too). Sarah Tamura competed at Skate Detroit, a US summer competition, but she finished fourth in her group and did not make the final (the top 3 made the final at that competition).
Yes, Sarah may have looked strong compared to her competition at Nationalsl but the competition she is facing at JW is nothing like the competition she faced at home, and it is even tougher than the competition she faced in Latvia.
Yes. But it is because Russia has many very strong competitors.
For example, at Moscow qualifiers to Natonals Elder Age 2016 competed 8 really strong girls (Vasilyeva, Panenkova, Tarusina, Gulyakova, Mitrofanova, Mukhortova, Kurakova, Scherbakova, born at 2002-2004) and at least four not "very good just now" but promising Trusova, Zagitova, Tarakanova, Shuboderova. So many strong competitors, and it's without three JGP Finalists and StPetersburg girls - Konstantinova, Samodurova, Lozko etc. and Kazan's Yasmina Kadyrova.
But US Ladies - Hicks, Gold, Edmunds won their International debut JGP Events (and Edmunds was good at her Senior International debut - Olympics, where ahead her were only ladies of "Top of World Top").
Canadian Osmond won her debut GP Event.
Wakaba Higuchi won her international debut Asian Open (Junior).
I believe really talented and strong skaters have good results regardless of lack of international experience.
Ladies Tech Team:
Referee Aniela HEBEL-SZMAK POL
Tech Controller Sally REHORICK CAN
Tech Spec Natalia LEBEDEVA RUS
Asst Tech Spec Terry KUBICKA USA
JUDGES drawn from: AUT CHN EST FIN HUN ISR ITA KAZ ROU RUS SVK RSA UKR
Lots of luck to the Japanese and Korean ladies with this judging panel....
Referee Aniela HEBEL-SZMAK POL
Tech Controller Sally REHORICK CAN
Tech Spec Natalia LEBEDEVA RUS
Asst Tech Spec Terry KUBICKA USA
JUDGES drawn from: AUT CHN EST FIN HUN ISR ITA KAZ ROU RUS SVK RSA UKR
Lots of luck to the Japanese and Korean ladies with this judging panel....
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