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2024 JGP Solidarity Cup Women's FS

Vemvane

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Well done, Mao, 3A and 4T both landed! She's grown as a performer as well - her gorgeous spiral that starts out in arabesque and ends in attitude, the softness of her arm carriage, and then the way the arms come down and straighten all the way down to the tips of her fingers right on the music, the way she lifts her chin to emphasise extension through her upper body. Her final spin, as always, gives me goosebumps with the way she generates speed. She is a fantastic skater!
 

RatedPG

Record Breaker
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Aug 21, 2018
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Canada
Just caught the ending of this competition.
The three medalists were solid!

Congrats to Mao! A 3A and 4T is phenomenal!! Hoping she delivers at Japanese Nationals

Wada!! I think she might be my fave Junior. She locked up a JGP finals spot here.

Also, Nayeon!! Not her best skate!! But, congrats on another bronze medal 🥉
 

CoyoteChris

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As an author of the crowns, THANK YOU!
Hope you enjoyed skaters wearing them and that the fit looked okay :)
Kaori better buy a bottle of ketchup to put on the words she said last season about Jr. Skaters wanting to becoming national champions. :rofl:
Yes, Kaori has beautiful artistry, but she has fallen behind in this crazy world of technical tricks. A Perfect Mao like we just saw means Kaori is gonna have to be perfect. One fall, thats all. I love them both. God, I love this sport.:pray:
 

Jammers

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At this point with Mao you wonder how much more can she improve with her dominating for so long now at this level. She's almost too good for Juniors now and the fact she will be well over 17 and yet won't be in Milan is just wrong. Keeping 15 year old's out of the Olympics is fine but not 17.
 

TallyT

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Australia
At this point with Mao you wonder how much more can she improve with her dominating for so long now at this level. She's almost too good for Juniors now and the fact she will be well over 17 and yet won't be in Milan is just wrong. Keeping 15 year old's out of the Olympics is fine but not 17.
Can't change the rules for one skater. If she squeaked in and someone born a month earlier missed out, they would be entitled to cry foul. And then another, a month after that...

It's unfortunate for her, but every sport has some rules that 'disadvantage' someone or other due to circumstances beyond control.
 

Skating91

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Great win for Shimada. Seems like a waste having her in a junior competition, but I guess it's for her own protection :rolleye: . I'm just not sure about her PCS this is what Valieva was getting for iconic programs like Girl on the Ball and Exogenesis in 2019/20, higher than what Usacheva was receiving at the same time. This is more like watching impressive jumps and spins with some music in the background, rather than a cohesive beautifully presented program. There's a lot of two footed skating from one end of the rink to the other, a stiff body only the arms move, very basic transitions. The jumps especially the combos are so impressive that maybe the judges it has a halo effect on the PCS. Seriously, watch all three mentioned side by side it will shock you.

The were quite generous with Wada just dinging her for the two landings on the q. Could have easily given her several underrotations, so very fortunate. Maybe skating for some nations is a case of a rising tide lifts all boats ;).

Disaster for Pezzetta I thought she had turned a corner with the incredible short program performance. I was going to say she should be working on quads, but maybe once she sorts out all these popped jumps. Maybe it's a stamina issue, plus she's a lot taller than the other skaters in the last group so requires a lot more energy to make those rotations. That makes those lutzs and flips all the more impressive. She was memorable and exciting though.
 

Jammers

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Can't change the rules for one skater. If she squeaked in and someone born a month earlier missed out, they would be entitled to cry foul. And then another, a month after that...

It's unfortunate for her, but every sport has some rules that 'disadvantage' someone or other due to circumstances beyond control.
Simply make it if you turn 17 before the end of the year prior to Worlds or the Olympics you are eligible not this nonsense if you turn a certain age before July 1st.
 

jenaj

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Simply make it if you turn 17 before the end of the year prior to Worlds or the Olympics you are eligible not this nonsense if you turn a certain age before July 1st.
They won't change the rules before the next Olympics but might afterwards. Rule changes are often prompted by a single skater. Janet Lynn, Midori Ito (figures). Alina Zagitova's backloaded free skate. 15 year old Kamila Valieva's breakdown at the Olympics. But it would be too late for Mao, in any event.
 

TallyT

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Simply make it if you turn 17 before the end of the year prior to Worlds or the Olympics you are eligible not this nonsense if you turn a certain age before July 1st.
The whole purpose is that all seniors are to be 17. Not 'nearly, isn't near enough good enough' 17. So having their birthday before the start of the season is the only fair and even vaguely reasonable way to do it, not half-way through. Especially not half-way through as a change just to favour one skater no matter how good she is.
 
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RafaelAstro

Final Flight
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Mar 22, 2018
Great win for Shimada. Seems like a waste having her in a junior competition, but I guess it's for her own protection :rolleye: . I'm just not sure about her PCS this is what Valieva was getting for iconic programs like Girl on the Ball and Exogenesis in 2019/20, higher than what Usacheva was receiving at the same time. This is more like watching impressive jumps and spins with some music in the background, rather than a cohesive beautifully presented program. There's a lot of two footed skating from one end of the rink to the other, a stiff body only the arms move, very basic transitions. The jumps especially the combos are so impressive that maybe the judges it has a halo effect on the PCS. Seriously, watch all three mentioned side by side it will shock you.

The were quite generous with Wada just dinging her for the two landings on the q. Could have easily given her several underrotations, so very fortunate. Maybe skating for some nations is a case of a rising tide lifts all boats ;).

Disaster for Pezzetta I thought she had turned a corner with the incredible short program performance. I was going to say she should be working on quads, but maybe once she sorts out all these popped jumps. Maybe it's a stamina issue, plus she's a lot taller than the other skaters in the last group so requires a lot more energy to make those rotations. That makes those lutzs and flips all the more impressive. She was memorable and exciting though.
Curious you are saying that about Wada when the only clearly under was the flip in combination in the long program, the 3lz-3t combination in the short and long programs were landed in the quarter for the toe loop at worst.

In the case of Shimada I said it before she is beneficied of the technical content of her programs, the quality of spins and jumps the consistency, the previous medals, rather than her presentation ability, not saying she is bad or something because she is clearly one of the best but many japanese skaters for example are at the same level or even better than Mao in presentation and it's not reflected, but well it has always been like this in the sport so I don't get why someone would get upset by that at this point, skaters from other nations have also been beneficiated by this like russia for example
 
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