2025 CS Cranberry Cup Senior Women Free Skate

[elbkup]

Samo so tall on the podium. Quite an athletic build as well. This easy power Samo has across the ice bodes well for her long term prospects in the sport. This is something she can carry until her mid 20's.

She really is quite beautiful…

 

[Skating91]

Levito’s not proving you wrong; for that, she will have to demonstrate a marked improvement in jumps and skating skills. Anyone being honest can clearly see how her skating has degenerated since 2022 Junior Worlds, especially when compared to some of her peers. She’s able to continue purely on motivation, which is emotional and psychological. Not physical. The Olympics is in six months. I don’t expect for her to physically be able to continue once that motivation is gone.

…and I almost never say things like that. But the writing’s right there on the ice. I’ll bet good money she’s going to go out like Medvedeva, but without the period of dominance.

No-one benefited more from the increase of the age rule than Levito. In senior women's figure skating it has long been advantageous to have youth on your side and she carried that advantage for effectively three seasons rather than just the one. She didn't have any 15 year olds coming up from juniors taking places away from her. This is the first season now where she isn't one of the youngest in the field she's an established skater who seems to have suffered a lot of injuries. She could find a way to muscle those jumps when she was younger and therefore a little smaller, but that catches up with you when you no longer have youth on your side.

Also benefited from the age rule in terms of not having to stay in juniors. Shimada wouldn't have given her a chance at World's gold.

Plus Russian girls banned just before 2022 Junior World's. Akatieva would have been untouchable and likely Zhilina and Muraviova taking the other two places on the podium.

I think the judges by inflating the GOE on those jumps have not helped her long term because she's never had an incentive to fix that technique, and now it's likely too late for her.

I imagine this will be her last season too.

 

[viennaskater]

Isabeau is certainly beautiful to watch .. and she owns the music. Lovely

Is it me, or was something 'off' with the music edits?

 

[elbkup]

Is it me, or was something 'off' with the music edits?

Don’t quote me but I think USFS leaves the original music up for 24 hours then subs in other music. Copyright.. is this what you are asking?

 

[Jontor]

Samodelkina and Shin are both great skaters and they proved it here. (Although Shin had a rough fs).

I find it a little irritating that they both got only one GP assignment. Lesser ranked girls got ahead of them, and I think it is mainly because of deals that France/US might have done.

Ah well, Samodelkina and Shin are at the top of the Alternate list so hopefully they will get their much deserved 2nd assignment.

 

[Mathematician]

Samodelkina and Shin are both great skaters and they proved it here. (Although Shin had a rough fs).

I find it a little irritating that they both got only one GP assignment. Lesser ranked girls got ahead of them, and I think it is mainly because of deals that France/US might have done.

Ah well, Samodelkina and Shin are at the top of the Alternate list so hopefully they will get their much deserved 2nd assignment.

I mean TBH I am sure there should be at least 1 WD throughout the entire season. Samodelkina will almost definitely get her chance.

 

[Jontor]

I mean TBH I am sure there should be at least 1 WD throughout the entire season. Samodelkina will almost definitely get her chance.

We'll see. It is very different every season. Some seasons have lots of wd's, other seasons don't. I hope that skaters who have assignments but are injured wd in time. Many skaters have the bad habit of wd-ing just a week before the competition, and then it's too late for a replacement.

 

[jenaj]

The costume is part of the presentation score.

No, it isn't.

 

[Dawn825]

Jia skates very beautifully

 

[withwings]

Jia skates very beautifully

Yes, she really does. She has something which compels; a magic in progress.

 

[Elyse]

Yuna Aoki is first on the alternate list, but Japan are maxed out on entries everywhere and so she can only replace a Japanese skater. Sofia is first on the list for non-Japanese withdrawals.

I suppose that makes sense if it is a Japanese skater that w/d. But if Samo is now first on the replacement list, does this now mean that if a Japanese skater w/d that Samo will replace her?

 

[Elyse]

Don’t quote me but I think USFS leaves the original music up for 24 hours then subs in other music. Copyright.. is this what you are asking?

I was wondering about that too. Like you, I figured it was a copyright issue. No way would her FP have such disjointed edits. Also, during Samo's FP it just went silent. Most likely a copyright thing.