2024 Grand Prix de France Women's Free Skate

[bigsisjiejie]

Even with the FS mistakes, I see real progress in Amber. She went for everything, no pops and no giving up on the program.

 

[Lamente Ariane]

Amber so sweet and gracious in the interview. I have to crash for a bit, not sure if I’ll be up in time for the men

 

[Warwick360]

The interviewer does not have the ability to ad lib on the written interview it seems.

How can he say she was still focused on the technical side after the not so clean program today?

 

[labgoat]

Congratulations to Amber for continuing to bring her overall skating up, Wakaba for today's best and most inspiring free skate, and to Rion and Chaeyeon for delivering lovely performances as well.

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

Japan has now won 7 of the 9 medals in the women's portion of the GP circuit so far. Absolutely insane.

 

[museksk8r]

132 for 3 falls and no performance?

She didn’t fall 3 times though. She had one fall. Stop with the lying.

 

[TT_Fin]

I think I will skip the men and watch Volvo open cup as there are three Finns in a row and I will go watch Halloween blues right after it, so have a nice evening everybody with the rest of the events.

 

[Joekaz]

139.10 for 206.08 overall. Way to go, Wakaba!

Should have been mid 140's.

 

[cailuj365]

Wakaba has one of my favorite programs of the season and so well performed twice in a row. Looove the last minute of the program. Her and Rion's jumps were chef's kiss.

Amber's FS is a total snooze, but I also see the mental progress she has made to keep going and rotate all her jumps despite the errors. With such a huge SP, I was sure she was going to win.

Sarah's consistency is incredible. Even though she was only 5th here, she carried herself very well and I think is making her case to be at least US ladies #3 right now.

 

[4everchan]

I fell asleep..... to wake up to a disastrous score for my predictions LOL but i am happy for the medalists ... just sad for Kim. C as i really like her.

 

[readernick]

132 for 3 falls and no performance?

It was one fall and Amber did perform,( the program isn't to my taste either but it does have a lot of choreo) has good skating skills, and just almost never gets technical calls because she doesn't have edge issues and usually doesn't UR. Wakaba won the FS.

Huge congrats to Amber!

and WAKABA!!!

Happy for Rion but crushed for Chaeyeon
Honestly thought Chaeyeon did enough to stay on the podium

It wasn't the fall. It was the URs. Those will kill your score. They could be seen in real-time.

 

[museksk8r]

Some people forget that Amber’s base value in the SP and the FS was the highest in the field by a very substantial margin. Also, she had a deserved 12 point lead over Wakaba from the short program. She fell once and had to really fight for a couple of landings, but everything else she did was clean in the FS. Happy for the podium!

 

[museksk8r]

Sorry I posted in the wrong thread.

 

[reader3]

Congrats to all the medalists and special congrats to Amber!

 

[Kris135]

Sarah's consistency is incredible. Even though she was only 5th here, she carried herself very well and I think is making her case to be at least US ladies #3 right now.

For the US women the GP's are like their auditions for being placed on the world team. Sarah right now is doing much better in the regards of getting on it. The only two that placed higher were the two that were on World team last year. This year I think the the GP'd are going to play a major role on who goes because almost of the major players have GP's so the committee is looking to see who is going to make strongest team to Boston. This year Nationals are going to play only a part in descion making process. Ava the only wild card if she can make it to Nationals this year. So everyone needs to remember these GP,'s are very important in regards of who is going to Boston this year.

 

[hermine17]

Rion, the skater that you are. I’m so proud of Wakaba too.

Amber deserves her win, no question about that, but the fact that her PCS is higher than Rion and close to Wakaba is ridiculous and unacceptable. (Huge respect for going for the 3A, though.)

 

[Janice4th]

She looked so confident in the warm up.

Personally, I would give Wakaba the win, even with the score gap coming into the FP. Hopefully no funny business with the PCS by the judges.

Alas, it’s a two part competition. Winning the free should not constitute winning first place. Why bother with the short if it isn’t going to count?

 

[Janice4th]

For the US women the GP's are like their auditions for being placed on the world team. Sarah right now is doing much better in the regards of getting on it. The only two that placed higher were the two that were on World team last year. This year I think the the GP'd are going to play a major role on who goes because almost of the major players have GP's so the committee is looking to see who is going to make strongest team to Boston. This year Nationals are going to play only a part in descion making process. Ava the only wild card if she can make it to Nationals this year. So everyone needs to remember these GP,'s are very important in regards of who is going to Boston this year.

And she actually placed 4th in both competitions. I think that bodes well for her future.

 

[Janice4th]

Don't love that, this was a very weak performance. Wakaba should have won.

Wakaba did win the free. She just didn’t do enough to overcome not doing as well in the short.

 

[Joekaz]

The q rule should be abolised. Its impossible to say its exactly on the quarter. Its just another way to manipulate scores by knocking down clean programs for some skaters. A clean jump doesn't have to be fully rotated. Just be under a quarter. Meanwhile they let clear URs be called clean for others, like Amber's combo in the short for instance. Its not just the PCS(like today , lol}and GOE where manipulation occurs