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It's insulting and dismissive of Jia Shin's excellence and admirably unique qualities to suggest she is just the typical Korean style or a Yuna Kim clone. Many take Yuna Kim's positive inspiration on the next generation of Korean skaters and try to twist it in a negative way to try and humiliate them by erroneously referring to them as Yuna Kim clones.Jia Shin conforms with the Korean style in her skating, whereas Chaeyeon Kim is more of an individual rather than a Yuna Kim clone.
I would be surprised if Jia won Junior Worlds, unless Mao Shimada is absent. Jia can beat Mao in the SP, and has done so in the past. However, she cannot match Mao's technical content in the free. She needs a 3A and a quad to be able to beat Mao there, unless Mao has an uncharacteristically poor skate. Even with a fall, downgrade and multiple underotations from Mao at the Youth Olympics, Jia was still fractions of a point behind her in the free. It's possible for Jia to win if she goes completely clean and Mao falls and makes other errors, but it is unlikely because Mao is usually very consistent.
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