despite the injury for a start. She isn’t an ambitious “performer” in the sense that Amber and Isabeau are; but I love her quiet demeanor. Wish her well going forward. She and Sarah Everhardt skated opposite each other early in the season at Cranberry Cup where Lindsay won the gold medal and Sarah a runner up..
Most disappointing was Elyse-in practice she was rock solid, perfect run throughs-hit every jump, no loss of stamina at the end. I dunno what happened. After watching practices I felt she had a really good shot of winning it all.
I'm a fan of Mia. I just think she needs some better choreo and to pay attention to the music more instead of just skating from position to position. I don't think it's that she's not musical though. I think when she competes once she gets the quad done she looks upon it as her major achievement. Then she loses her concentration and misses easily doable jumps and, as in the case of yesterday, Zayaks. She earned a 183 earlier in the season and I think she could score well beyond that if she just made the committment to her entire program. I think some feedback from an impartial party would help.
Yeah people spoke about this earlier in the thread. It's an NBC decision I have no doubt. Dumb!!!!
I think there are similarities between Lorine Schild at the end of last season/start of this season and Sarah now. She is strong technically but has not yet learnt the art of performance. Lorine is now starting to learn that and hopefully Sarah will too. It is not that long ago that people were saying similar things about Ilia Malinin.So this got my curiosity up and I went back and watched this skate. Solid debut as well as great jumping, which bodes well for her moving forward. Also being 17 (apparently). But...to me she is just going through a checklist, checking boxes. Something appears to be missing, I think - spark, perhaps - something like that.
Check the Rewatch thread. Those links work—I’ve sent them to a friend in Canada, who can watch just fine! Thank you to our anonymous friend
I’m pretty sure that this is the way it used to be prior to 2010: Ladies SP Thurs, Ladies FS Sat night. What changed is that once NBC took over from ABC/ESPN as the main TV partner, they started making demands to modify the schedule to fit their needs. It began with the splitting of the ladies event IIRC into an afternoon segment and an evening, “TV” segment that consisted of the final 10-12. Then they moved it from Saturday night to Friday night sometime in the 2010s. The reason they gave publicly was so they could deliver more live coverage and avoid competition with NFL playoff games. In fact, they even do this with the Olympics with the popular events. Ever wonder how the swimming, gymnastics, etc. are shown live in US prime time when the events are in Asia? Because of their demand to schedule those events for the early morning locally…
Anyone else remember Sasha Cohen training a quad?
I love Sarah's power and I am okay with 4 Seasons - it is an excellent learning vehicle for developing your posture and style. Send her out somewhere with Japanese, Korean or European skaters to develop her art appreciation and exposure to very artistic skaters and she will thrive.
She is one of my favorites for this event. She is still young and has room to grow technically. Style wise she is excellent and her competitive instincts grew a lot this year.
I know she is recovering from injury, but Lindsay always gives me nervous Anna Pogorilaya vibes with her facial expressions. She seems to love to skate, but competing seems to make her hold her breath and not breathe until it is over.
Isabeau was 4th at Worlds last year and did well on the Grand Prix. Of course they will send her! Ava should have skated at Nationals if she wanted a chance at the World team.
