I'm worried about Adam, he's got a lot of hype too and if Rafael really did not prepare them for this schedule change, well... my expectatives are so low as possible.
By the way: “The time of the skate didn’t affect us. We would skate at the #Olympics at any time, any day” @alexa_knierim excited about her first Games. https://twitter.com/ISU_Figure/status/961827505043722240
They were skating later though. And their practice was at ~10 am local time IIRC, which is a big different compared to the men who were at 6-7am.
Everyone is blaming NBC prime time for the early figure skating...I have a different take. I think it's designed to put the short track speed skating in primetime Korea time. Short track speed skating is incredibly popular in Korea and I think that Korean television would want to show that in the evening for the most viewership
That's a good point.