What a shame that her two 10th places didn't result in 10th overall. It's especially too bad because the scores were so close. Nonetheless, Maddie should be super proud of herself. She has been a strong competitor all season, and she's getting better with each performance.
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Canada has been snakebitten in general this worlds. Maddie wound up in what was basically a 4-way tie for 9-12 places and she's the one that wound up in 12th. Which I thought unfair, since I believe she should have had at least a couple more points in the SP, which, as it turns out, would have put her squarely in the top 10.
In pairs, while it's awesome that James/Radford won a medal and I was not expecting them to prior to the competition, they were blatantly robbed of the silver.
And in ice dance today all of the Canadian teams were held down — Piper and Paul with no chance at a medal and Lajoie/Lagha with no shot at the top 10 (and I do think they are a top 10 team). Anyway, as frustrated as I am by this season for Piper and Paul who have been abandoned by the judges, I hope they stay in one more season at least, say screw it and do the quirkiest most awesome programs they can come up with and make an exit on their own terms.
At least Roman made the FS this time, I guess?
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Phew, the Canadian men held on to 2 spots, and Roman is the top Canadian man at Worlds with the 9th-best free skate, 12th over-all. Not bad for his World Championships debut! 
CBC.ca video link for his performance: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2016718403602
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CBC.ca video link for his performance: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2016718403602
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i haven't watched... slept and working... MEN LP seems to have been rock and roll... BUT i wanna say it first 
(damn @siberia82 beat me to it LOL)
BRavo Keegan for trying the 4lz
and WOW Roman for saving Canada's 2 spots !
I will watch later
(damn @siberia82 beat me to it LOL)BRavo Keegan for trying the 4lz
and WOW Roman for saving Canada's 2 spots !
I will watch later
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Roman really needed a win in his column after how the Olympics went.
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Forgive me if I’m a bit confused: Are the rules different for Ladies and Men’s singles? Top 12 for men, top 10 for women?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy for Roman and Canada, just confused.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy for Roman and Canada, just confused.
One entry needs top 10 to get a secondForgive me if I’m a bit confused: Are the rules different for Ladies and Men’s singles? Top 12 for men, top 10 for women?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy for Roman and Canada, just confused.
Two entries needs a total of 28, 12+14= 26
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Forgive me if I’m a bit confused: Are the rules different for Ladies and Men’s singles? Top 12 for men, top 10 for women?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy for Roman and Canada, just confused.
Canada only has 1 spot for the Women (btw, the ISU officially changed the name of this discipline at the start of the season, so it's called Women now, not Ladies
), so the lone competitor has to finish in the Top 10 to earn a second berth.Canada has 2 entries in the Men's event, so if the combined placements of the two skaters total between 14 and 28, Canada retains the 2 spots. Both Roman and Keegan had to work together to keep the berths, but Roman placed higher than Keegan, which went against all expectations. Every fs fan believed that whether or not Canada would maintain its 2 spots would depend almost entirely on Keegan because Roman would struggle just to qualify.
ETA; Oops, I just noticed that Ziotic beat me to it, with a reply that is far more concise than mine.
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Although, let's be honest... does Canada need the three places? Not really... they don't have a second skater who could make the free skate. The top ten goal was more of a goal to say 'I made the top 10', secondarily to say 'We have two women's spots for Canada now' - but not necessarily because the two spots needed to be filled... know what I mean?
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depends... juniors are promising + Kaiya and then, what about if Gabby decided to stick around and get her shape back fully... she was let's at 70% back this year
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Ruiter could absolutely make the free skate.
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Not that it's not disappointing for next year's bronze medalists, but it was extremely unlikely that we were going to keep three once Gilles & Poirier left anyway.Canada lost a spot in ice dance.
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Theoretically, I guess. Could. That's what I mean. Ie, we don't have any other skaters with the skating skills or technical content to basically be a lock. Ie, even if she hits everything, Kaia will be on the bubble. Still a junior in terms of content, performance, skating skills, choreography, etc. Don't get me wrong, I totally think she's the future... although the future is probably a generation behind her to be honest. I mean, Maddie has excellent skating skills and decent presentation when she's on. Her technical content is some of the best out there, theoretically, b/c she rarely underrotates, and even then it's due to nerves, and not a chronic thing like (eg) the US skaters or others.
And YET, even with a decent skate (for her) and 4 or 5 top skaters gone, she doesn't crack the top ten. Basically, skating is more competitive than it's ever been. EVeryone out there is fantastic and in order to shine you have to be ridiculously skilled - ie, Russian level.
So I get what you're saying, and I agree that Kaia's the only one who's close to the league, but in all honesty, it's not like she's going to fly in there and easily make the free. I suspect that a clean Kaia would still be on the edge of qualifying, probably in the high teens.
All this to say it's not as if Belgium has nobody, but Canada has tons waiting in the wings.
Although the Belgian skaters would still need their minimums, correct? If they don't get them, does that open opportunities for other countries to grab extra spots, like at Nebelhorn this year, or something like that?
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re: Gabby... Gabby at her top level wouldn't stick out any more. She podiumed ONCE, and was held up at the next Olympics due to the reputation points the 2017 bronze got her. But a 3 toe-3 toe isn't going to do it any more. Most top skaters are doing 3lutz-3toe, plus another tricky triple, often in combination with euler 3sal. So she could definitely make it back, but her days of being competitive are over, I suspect.
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Ruiter's content is the same as all but a couple of skaters.
Her personal best (and that's with junior PCS) is 63.17, which would have been thirteenth in the short program at Worlds.
There is no absolute maximum number of skaters for Worlds. Every country can send one skater per discipline, if the skater has the minimum TES.
There is no need for the additional qualifying competition (Nebelhorn). In the past, Nebelhorn used to be all about qualifying a single entry in a discipline for a country; that isn't needed for Worlds because everybody automatically gets one. This year, it was also about qualifying additional Olympic entries for a country when they had less entries for the Olympics than for Worlds. It wasn't ever about getting extra spots for Worlds
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