Was it obvious?
To me, her increased consistency with quads and well-deserved PCS increases (albeit slight) put her in serious contention for the world title. There's no way of knowing, but I think it could've been hers.
Yes, there is no way of knowing, and it breaks my heart that these girls missed the chance.
I think that Alyona, who was the dominant one (except for RusNats), was bound to have missed one of her 3A's at Worlds, she needed to be clean on all three of her 3A's to win.
And, if you do the math, a clean Sasha 4 quad program would never beat a clean Anna. Anna's program was more technically difficult and she had the PCS advantage over Sasha.
The only scenario I can see for Anna to lose the gold is if Sasha had two perfect programs with 5 quads in the free and a perfect 3A in the short, an impossible scenario imo.
All this assuming that Anna also was clean of course, but she was sooo consistent last season, so I think she would have pulled off another RusNats (or even better) performance.
We will never know...
And the bruises on the ankles should come from the ankle cuffs that the girls put on after training.This is how Eteri checks her students during the night
Yes, there is no way of knowing, and it breaks my heart that these girls missed the chance.
I think that Alyona, who was the dominant one (except for RusNats), was bound to have missed one of her 3A's at Worlds, she needed to be clean on all three of her 3A's to win.
And, if you do the math, a clean Sasha 4 quad program would never beat a clean Anna. Anna's program was more technically difficult and she had the PCS advantage over Sasha.
The only scenario I can see for Anna to lose the gold is if Sasha had two perfect programs with 5 quads in the free and a perfect 3A in the short, an impossible scenario imo.
All this assuming that Anna also was clean of course, but she was sooo consistent last season, so I think she would have pulled off another RusNats (or even better) performance.
We will never know...
There would be no so large PCS gap. Clean jumps = much better PCS. One fall = lower PCS, two falls = mediocre PCS.
Or even better: judges could think her girl-time is over and a new lady born. Period.
And Sasha is the only girl who dared 4-1-3 combo backlogged. Actually she backlogged two quads but the second 4T didn't receive the bonus as not being in top three elements.
Not every male skater dares to backlog quad combo
To me, her increased consistency with quads
This season, Anna has 7 clean quads with positive GOE and 8 with errors (falls, ur, step out, wrong edge). This is 46% rate.
Sasha has 17 clean quads with positive GOE and 10 with errors. Success rate is 63%(a larger number of quad attempts makes this number even more unique). It’s ridiculous for me how everyone talks about the incredible consistency of Anna and because of two unsuccessful competitions they began to call Sasha inconsistent. I understand that people tend to remember the recent events, but it's still a little weird.
My predictions for the Russian Ladies next season.
Two words.
Anna Shcherbakova
It will be her season.
wait, didn't Anna land all but 2 her quads?! 1 fall at GPF, one more at Euros.
If my memory serves my right, Anna landed 1/1 at Lombardia, 4/4 at GP events, 2/3 at gpf, 3/3 at Nationals, and 2/3 at Euros.
that is 12 from 14. That is 85.7% landed.
Landed jump does not mean clean jump. Test skate(4Lz fall), Lombardia(4Lz), GP USA(4Lz, 4Lz), GP China(4Lz<!, 4Lz!), GPF(4Lz, 4F fall, 4Lz<), RN(4Lz,4F step-out, 4Lz), EC(4Lz, 4F<, 4Lz<< fall). How can a jump with underrotation or wrong edge be considered clean?
True.The lost WC doomed Sasha. She could reach the heights she deserved but s//t happens.
After the three consecutive loses Sasha was pushed down behind two concurrent stars of the TTfP. So, her parents apparently decided to seek the truth in other places.
For good or for bad.
Gossips were Sasha (or her parents) first attempted to leave at February, way before the WC was cancelled. I don't see how it could help.
And yes, the TTfP is overfilled with stars.
Possibly. But I'm not sure the Fed would let another one leave in the next year. EG would flip out.And if it works and she triumphs, the other two will be looking squinteyed at Eteri (and possibly the exit sign). Who knows?
You could be right. EStay calm!
My crystal ball tells me that everything will be fine.
God safe the Quad Queen!
Russian clickbait media can claim that it was Rozanov who invented jumps not Axel Rudolf Paulsen and frankly, after few articles I have read, I won't be surprised,but It still won't convince anybody who isn't purposely blinding himself that there was more that one (and only one) reason of Trusova's leaving TT.
Also thanks Alexandra for honestly saying that she wants everything and right now,that makes perfectly clear why she went where she went- when you want huge return on your deposit, established and big banks aren't the way, you need to find ponzi schemes and hope for the best. Well, good luck.
Agree that Shcherbackova would've won worlds.
Happy birthday, ladies
And I just wanna see Adeliya's debut on JGP this year :hap85: (and I hope someone would create her FF. Spirals for Miles, are you here? )