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Oh......
someone on here a few pages back said her first major senior international competition could be the olympics. a very crazy possibility!
2019-20 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating
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someone on here a few pages back said her first major senior international competition could be the olympics. a very crazy possibility!
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Not that different than Alina Zagitova actually
Zagitova also went to GPF (and won), which is something Alysa could qualify as well for in that season (I don't doubt that she will get two GP assignments in her first senior season).
The Sochi Olympics were Polina Edmunds' first senior international.
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here's the new interview with Gracie:
https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/...ads-to-greensboro-with-a-new-perspective.aspx
if anyone still had their doubts on her comeback, she made her intentions crystal
https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/...ads-to-greensboro-with-a-new-perspective.aspx
if anyone still had their doubts on her comeback, she made her intentions crystal
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here's the new interview with Gracie:
https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/...ads-to-greensboro-with-a-new-perspective.aspx
if anyone still had their doubts on her comeback, she made her intentions crystal
I am so proud of how far she's come, I've been hoping for her comeback for so long.
Technically the GPF doesn't count as a major international, but it is good experience and does not have the scheduling conflict that 4CCs does during an Olympic season for athletes who live on a separate continent & have limited time for travel & preparation.
In seniors. Also Vincent Zhou's and Jason Brown's. Basically, it's common with U.S. athletes that either move up to seniors or break through during the Olympic season because they usually don't fly across the ocean for 4CCs right before the Olympics.
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i wonder who will US fed send to JW aside from Alysa?
I think lack of major competition exposure can be a good thing to help with nerves, and I think that Alysa is getting so much press and attention now that a dynamite performance in the team event won't bring attention that she's not used to at that point where it could negatively impact her for the individual event.
Does anyone know what her injury was? Her first and last competition was way back in September. It must have been serious for it to not heal in the last 3 months. Is this yet another example of a Tom Z skater competing when they shouldn't have? Well Nationals has just gotten a lot less interesting. Next season Ting is really going to have to make things happen to make up for losing a full season because 2022 is coming up fast.
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Excerpt from Ting's Instagram post:
... I have decided to withdraw from Nationals this year to focus on my recovery and rehabilitation from my second right ankle injury this year. ...
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6ZPbU3pq05/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6ZPbU3pq05/
Sounds to me as if the second injury perhaps occurred during training??
Best to Ting.
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Me tooooo!!!!
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Will Bradie go to 4CC this year? I keep reading about how it's the wrong side of the world so the US competitors don't like to fly there.
Of any kind. Sasha skated on the Grand Prix before the Olympics and so did Alina. Alysa will also be eligible for the Grand Prix in 2021, before the Olympics.
Most North American athletes today go except during an Olympic season. I won't expect Nathan, as he is already taking a lot of time off from school. But Bradie has the best shot she has ever had at winning a medal. I think she'll go, provided she qualifies. (Also she attended that late CS before the GPF, supposedly for WS points. If you want to be late in the lineup at Worlds based on WS, you've got to go to 4CCs).
