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I´d suppose that Uno will win his second GP-gold here, don´t see any other possibility, LOL. Zhou has a chance for a medal, but only if he and his team have taken his UR problems seriously and managed to fix them. Possibility for the third medal among these skaters:
Aliev
Voronov
Vasiljevs
Lots of new Japanese skaters here, at least to me (unfortunately I don´t remember Japanese names that well). Maybe a new Japanese star will be born?
The short amount of time between SkAm and NHK would not allow for any meaningful fixes for UR to be implemented. Those kinds of technique fixes take a long time.Zhou has a chance for a medal, but only if he and his team have taken his UR problems seriously and managed to fix them.
The short amount of time between SkAm and NHK would not allow for any meaningful fixes for UR to be implemented. Those kinds of technique fixes take a long time.
In the short term, the best strategy would probably be to cut down the quad content in his programs in favour of triples he could rotate properly and aim for good GOE on, and stick with whatever his best quad is.
Dream podium: Uno, Aliev, Vasiljevs
Imagine Stephane's reaction if Deniss were to medal. That alone would be worth the price of admission.
I wouldn't count out Rizzo. If he's clean and the higher-ranked skaters mess up a bit, he stands a fair chance for bronze IMO.
For every skater do the first Grand Prix is the first step to make a real senior debut. I did senior B events, but that is not the same. The Grand Prix is really interesting and I loved it.
It’s a different circuit. I’ve never done it before. Also the name, like Skate America or NHK Trophy. These are names that I’ve heard for many, many years and that are really important. I remember when I was like eight or seven years old, and I heard my parents saying ‘today is Skate America, we’re going to watch it’ and I was saying, ‘mom, I want to do Skate America, too’ and now I’m here.