Mai will be the captain of team Japan at winter universiade.https://mobile.twitter.com/figureskatingm1/status/1087667713919438849
It’s what she deserves
Mai will be the captain of team Japan at winter universiade.https://mobile.twitter.com/figureskatingm1/status/1087667713919438849
Currently underway: All Japan Inter-high school competition-
(Group A of ladies' SP had finished yesterday)
Group B, skater #27 Kaori Sakamoto
3Lz+3T 2A CCoSp StSq 3F FCSp LSp
73.75 (into 1st)
Nice try with the Lz-T attempt! (NB: this competition adopts ISU Junior category rules, so Flip is the required solo jump in SP)
I can't help but laugh at Kaori skating with Junior category rules for once after winning Senior Nationals and coming 4th at Senior GPF.
Yay, we’ll see Mai Mihara again!
There could be some spoilers but I’m betting on a Japanese sweep.
I want this to be the year (or years) of Kaori and Mai
Never saw this addressed: why was Yuna Shiraiwa plucked from the senior class for Junior Worlds, when Mako Yamashita did better in Nationals? Wasn't she also eligible to be chosen?
Mako Yamashita won the National Sports Festival junior division competition by a comfortable margin.
Senior standings after the short:
59.84 Hinano Isobe
56.77 Hina Takeno
54.77 Ayaka Hosoda
52.24 Yuka Nagai
50.59 Rin Nitaya
50.55 Miyabi Oba
Bit of a surprise on top, but Ayaka fell on her triple axel, and Yuka singled her scheduled triple lutz, so both still have room for improvement to stage a comeback.
Never saw this addressed: why was Yuna Shiraiwa plucked from the senior class for Junior Worlds, when Mako Yamashita did better in Nationals? Wasn't she also eligible to be chosen?
I was watching NBC commentary this time, and I have to say the commentators came off a bit rudely about Mai.