2021–22 Canadian Figure Skating
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Yeah---Madeline beat Karen Chen by a whopping 0.52. What a victory for the ages!
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we all know the judges are still very conservative on giving Madeline big GOE and PCS with her very little experience on the international scene.. What matters is what was achieved on the ice. A clean SP for Madeline, an iffy combo + a fall for Karen in the SP. Then in the LP, Madeline popped her lutz into a double but managed an otherwise clean program. Karen had a better Base Value that got lowered down by under-rotations. Many people have commented on Madeline's lovely presentation in the SP and how her skating is overall improving.
We wouldn't be discussing this if someone hadn't predicted that it was impossible for Madeline to beat any of the USA girls during the team event. She did. That's a simple fact.
That's why I wanted Mariah Bell to skate the team event, not Karen. She didn't need a 3/3 to beat Maddie at Rostelecom, and she should have stuck to her 3/2 here. Incidentally, Mariah did a lutz in the SP and two in the FS at Rostelecom, and none of her lutzes got !.
BTW, all three US girls beat Maddie in the SP, even though two of them fell and had URs. The tech panel piled on the URs and edge calls, but couldn't keep the judges for giving them their usual high PCS scores....
BTW, all three US girls beat Maddie in the SP, even though two of them fell and had URs. The tech panel piled on the URs and edge calls, but couldn't keep the judges for giving them their usual high PCS scores....
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you are welcome to discuss this in the American women thread. This is a thread where we discuss the Canadian skaters, and quite frankly, we don't really compare them to the USA skaters, they are not the ones to chase here.
You say that like Maddie skated clean. She had a 3/2 and a step out, luckily she rotates her jumps so she didn’t get the q and >>
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you just said the quiet part out loud...that skater was supposed to go unnamed...LOL...
Maddie still has to get past all three of them to finish top 10.
BTW, another poster brought up a US skater disparagingly in this thread.
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and why does she need to do it here???...there are no stakes in this competition...she wasn't contending for medals...she is capable of beating them in World championships where she can regroup and there are actually stakes...
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is that your objective for her to finish top 10? I don't think she's ever mentioned having such a goal herself for these olympics.
Not my objective. That was stated here as a goal by a Canadian poster. But since she is 20th, to get to top 10, she has to beat 10 skaters who beat her in the SP. That would include the US skaters. But since you consider US skaters eminently beatable, I guess it's a done deal.
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Overall he is skating better than ever. No he did not skate better at this competition which he barely even made it to due to Covid restrictions and had precious little practice time.
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That was just one single poster, why would that have such important value???...their opinion is not more important as any other person on here...and by coming in top 10, she really doesn't gain much from it anyways...even if she were to hypothetically beat 10 others in front of her....anyways, that should be a good goal for her in the world championships where her performance actually might have some value....no one said the US eminently beatable, it is just that is it possible...
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i saw the post a few pages back... it doesn't talk about a goal it talks about highest potential placing. After the team event, considering how well Madeline skated in high stakes events, it makes sense to believe she can achieve a top ten. Now, everyone starts from scratch at the beginning of an event. We will see what happens tomorrow but I am looking forward to cheering on Maddie.
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A rougher day in terms of jump rotations for Maddie than has been the norm of late, but I hope she takes this as motivation heading into Worlds. She got her big Olympic moment in the team competition (where it really mattered more, anyway).
Too bad for her that she missed the hockey game, though.
Too bad for her that she missed the hockey game, though.
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Madeline got her 3lz-3t combo... that's all that matters 
one step at a time. She said she was tired from doing both competitions. She loved the team event, but she probably needed to take a couple days off before the individual and rest, away from the media frenzy. I am proud of her, and not worried at all... she's very strong with the loop usually so seeing most of her problem happened there, at the end, in the second half, doesn't worry me one bit. She will go home, relax, and be ready for worlds. The silver lining, nobody here will be able to comment on Madeline apparently getting no calls, she did when she deserved them. Bravo Madeline ! What a learning experience this has been !
one step at a time. She said she was tired from doing both competitions. She loved the team event, but she probably needed to take a couple days off before the individual and rest, away from the media frenzy. I am proud of her, and not worried at all... she's very strong with the loop usually so seeing most of her problem happened there, at the end, in the second half, doesn't worry me one bit. She will go home, relax, and be ready for worlds. The silver lining, nobody here will be able to comment on Madeline apparently getting no calls, she did when she deserved them. Bravo Madeline ! What a learning experience this has been !
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