Yeah, but I guess my thinking is that with that kind of BV advantage, even with a bunch of mistakes, you should be able to win. But it happened again at JWC when she was defeated by Usacheva with no quads/3As, so there's points being wasted, as a theme.
I don't see Alysa getting an Olympic spot unless she earns it outright with her Nationals and GP results. A consistent 3A would get her there, but otherwise there's no reason to pick her over others with similar jump content unless she truly deserves the assignment.
I’m not trying to argue that she should’ve won or would’ve won. What I’m saying is that she kept her composure and skated well under pressure. She didn’t pull a Mariah at Nationals this year or an Amber at Skate America. Her mistakes came on her most difficult elements and were limited to just one fall at both JGPF and Worlds and a few underrotations on triple axel/quad lutz attempts.
She'll face the Russians on the GP next season, so it'll be pretty clear at that time how she stacks up against them well before the Olympic trial. I think the hype was justified because she was the first American woman to do the quad and, obviously, that's what you need to compete against other women doing quads. However, she is still overmarked; her SP was nice, but for her to be 2-3 points behind Karen and Amber on PCS for as little one-foot skating as she did in her LP (in addition to her relative lack of speed and ice coverage) is really bad judging. She might deserve the bump in the second mark when she's successfully completing the 3A or quad, as other skaters get when they do those jumps, but when she's doing the same content as everyone else her PCS should be well behind the top Americans when she skates as she did in the LP.
She melted down in one of two competitions this season. I don't mean that as a criticism of her, I'm just saying that she isn't anymore solid than the other US women.
Literally when????? The Skate America invitational where she purposefully doubled jumps because she was injured?
I'm not sure most people know she got injured in the practice, if you don't it sure looked like a meltdown.
I guess my problem with this is that those are 6 whole ladies. That means four of them would have to make mistakes for Alysa to even have a shot at bronze, and I don't think that's likely at all. However, if she does get her 3A back, I think she will make the US Olympic team!
The injury did not prevent her from being able to do triples, as she also completed a few in that same program. Sure, the injury was a big factor but it's not like she was too hurt to do any difficult jumps at all.
Not for Beijing at least. But China have An Xiangyi who has a lot of potential to be competitive next quad.
If she went into that performance planning doubles, obviously the injury was preventing her from doing triples.
Different jumps are going to affected differently by an injury. We’ve seen this with Rika being unable to jump her lutz while still hitting gorgeous triple axels, Sasha only being able to go for her quad lutz at Russian Nationals even though her toe has traditionally been more stable, and Anna not being able to go for a quad toe post injury but having no issue with quad lutzes and flips. Alysa’s injury seemed to affect her lutz because if I’m remembering correctly that’s the main jump she doubled (and I want to say she reportedly was injured attempting the quad lutz so it makes sense that her lutzes were what she dumbed down).
