wowAnd I am done with the ladies' SP spreadsheet!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...IaVDnAYYEwyfrgX61XJZluGnY/edit#gid=1242512907
As I am reading this article, three of the injuries are considered serious, including a girl with a head and leg injury.
This article reports that the bus rammed into an electrical pole at full speed. The photo shows that the pole was leveled. From reading this, at least one of these skaters is seriously hurt. Healing thoughts to all!
This is terrible. I couldn't read any of the articles, but I feel it might be the bus driver taking suicide/drunk type of accident. No reasonable person will drive into an electrical pole at full speed.
#spoiledRusfansprobsZagitova was way above the rest of the field for me in SP. She connected to the music, she was fast with good edges, her jumps are elegant. A new star is born...but. But she is too Eteri. I know my comparison is far-fetched but I don't have a better one: the end of Terminator 2. When T 1000 melts he shows everyone. In Zagitova's skating I saw Lipnitskaya, Sakhanovich, Medvedeva, and Tsurskaya - all of them. Her only own trick at this point is Rippon jumps instead of tanos. May be that's why I remained somewhat cold. Still not as cold as to Polina whom I admire for her jumps and power but whom I could not accept as a whole package because I could not emotionally connect to her skating. I still remember Sima's Sweet and tender beast in Slovenia - that was fabulous skating!
Perhaps, but it may be more carelessness. They were on a very windy mountain road (also from the article) in the Alps. One wrong move, and you could spin out. (And now that I re-read it, although they said at full speed and "rammed" was the word they used, maybe that is not "head-on"?: somehow, the reporting says, the driver did not sustain serious injuries???)
Either way, not good!
#spoiledRusfansprobs
Please do mind, this is the revolution - in three years of time we've had hot dancer Sotnikova, Bollywood fireball Tuktamysheva, lyrical heart-piercing Lipnitskaya, blond femme fatale Pogorilaya, airy elegant Medvedeva, flirty lil' thing Proklova, sassy athletic Sakhanovich, Black magic woman Sotskova, Goth chessmaster Tsurskaya, cutest little kitty Fedichkina and more.
It's quite hard for those kids to be super original in these circumstances, especially from the first start of the season.
OMG, I'm the worst!You forgot dramatic sloppy charismatic Elena!
Lots of new talent here!
1. Alina Zagitova: She has good spins, great jumps (and rippons!!!), and solid footwork. But 40.80 TES...what were the judges thinking ...this is higher than any senior international TES from last season, and this was set by a debuting junior. Alina is really talented, but honestly most of her GOEs were way too high. She also skates a bit cold as well so 27 PCS isn't really reasonable either...
2. Kaori Sakamoto: Kaori seems to have improved a lot and I enjoyed her! Beautiful 3Lo and nice performance throughout.
3. Rin Nitaya: She needs a bit more power into her skating, but overall her performance was good. Also, :yay: for choreo from Akiko!
Zagitova'a TES is driven first by her jump backloading with 2 Rippons, second by very difficult SS, third by fast spins with many positions. May be one could argue a bit about GOE.
there's a post @ CSKA that Anna has an operation on her knee & her mom is about to fly to France
Hopefully everything is OK & its successful :sad21:
http://www.ltk-cska.ru/