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- Sep 14, 2008
Satako's program has improved...although now in the section where she was doing fluttery arm movements at the end when the music gets rapid, she's now doing almost nothing. Why is this so hard to get right?? LOL.
Osmond's program is not good and with those 2 big mistakes she shouldn't have been ahead of Satako. Funny how she and Satako are both skating to this music in one of their programs this year and both fail (the music for Osmond's program after the jumps are done is particularly disjointed). The movements don't reflect the wistful delicacy and build of the music. They just have random movements thrown in everywhere. Like, why does Osmond kick her leg up after the Lutz? It makes no sense at all. This is where the scoring system and judging have really killed the artistry in skating.
RIKA HONGO's SCORE WAS ABSURDLY, MALICIOUSLY LOW. What the hell, seriously?!?! Those tech calls are SO wrong:
1.) << call on the opening 3T which was definitely NOT landed forwards and huge -GOE for a small mistake on the landing.
2.) << call and tons of -GOE on a 3Lo that was cleanly landed, and not forwards.
3.) a full 'e' call for a 3Lz that was taken off from on a flat at worst (she's clearly on an outside edge at the start) AND a < call when it was definitely within 1/4 of a turn.
4.) < for the second 3T that seems to have been deducted for the very tip of her toepick starting to touch the ice before the 1/4 mark, but that shouldn't be considered the landing point.
5.) negative GOE across the board on her clean 2A+2T+2Lo combo with a big opening 2A, just because the last double was underrotated???
6.) < call on her second 3F that was right on the border, and considering she doesn't pre-rotate this jump as much as others, that is a bad call.
EMBARRASSING judging. And yet almost nobody will care since it is Rika Hongo.
Osmond's program is not good and with those 2 big mistakes she shouldn't have been ahead of Satako. Funny how she and Satako are both skating to this music in one of their programs this year and both fail (the music for Osmond's program after the jumps are done is particularly disjointed). The movements don't reflect the wistful delicacy and build of the music. They just have random movements thrown in everywhere. Like, why does Osmond kick her leg up after the Lutz? It makes no sense at all. This is where the scoring system and judging have really killed the artistry in skating.
RIKA HONGO's SCORE WAS ABSURDLY, MALICIOUSLY LOW. What the hell, seriously?!?! Those tech calls are SO wrong:
1.) << call on the opening 3T which was definitely NOT landed forwards and huge -GOE for a small mistake on the landing.
2.) << call and tons of -GOE on a 3Lo that was cleanly landed, and not forwards.
3.) a full 'e' call for a 3Lz that was taken off from on a flat at worst (she's clearly on an outside edge at the start) AND a < call when it was definitely within 1/4 of a turn.
4.) < for the second 3T that seems to have been deducted for the very tip of her toepick starting to touch the ice before the 1/4 mark, but that shouldn't be considered the landing point.
5.) negative GOE across the board on her clean 2A+2T+2Lo combo with a big opening 2A, just because the last double was underrotated???
6.) < call on her second 3F that was right on the border, and considering she doesn't pre-rotate this jump as much as others, that is a bad call.
EMBARRASSING judging. And yet almost nobody will care since it is Rika Hongo.
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