It's official - it will be Rachael and Mirai for the Olympic team
It's official - it will be Rachael and Mirai for the Olympic team
Wrong. Saying Caroline is flexible is a fact, saying Rachael is robotic is an opinion. No matter how many people agree with you it's still just your opinion. Believe it or not, there are people (myself included) who disagree.
I may have been tough on her (verbally) but I NEVER hated or despised her, despite what her fans said earlier.
She got 5th at Worlds last year, the best performance by a U.S. lady in a couple of seasons. No reason to expect it will be too much different this year; in fact, with the U.S. title she may be even more confident than ever, plus she's continued to improve each season. She actually finished ahead of Mao in the freeskate at that one GP event -- have any of our other ladies beaten one of the big guns like Mao or Yu Na in any phase of any competition? I don't think so, if so please do let me know if I'm misremembering. Anyway, I think we have every reason to believe she'll represent the U.S. respectably if not dazzlingly at Olys/Worlds. And that may be all we can hope for at this time.
Really, cornell, you wouldn't even put Flatt, who again finished 5th at last year's Worlds, as an alternate? Liang before Flatt, you truly think Flatt should place that low? I mean, Bebe has some good qualities and I like her skating, but has she ever had results like Flatt, or at least has she had them recently? Poor Rachael should just hang up her skates, if she should never have placed above 9th or so at US Nats.
Don't mean to get personal here, cornell, but c'mon -- Flatt's so bad she shouldn't even be an alternate?
In my ideal world, truly, Flatt and Nagasu go. Oh, wait, they are!
PS Thanks, Phoenix!
Everyone's ideal skaters are different, yo. Just because Flatt is your ideal skater doesn't mean it has to be hers/his.
Tell me. We sure do like to eat our own in the U.S., don't we? Rachael is definitely a COP skater, and she knows how to skate within the system. With some exceptions such as PCS scoring being too consistent within skaters and used kind of like the old artistic mark, and things like very big names getting UR's not called, COP is a check-off-your-boxes, count-your-rotations type of system. Weir called it like mathematics instead of skating, Sasha mentioned not liking that aspect of the SP herself just yesterday. There's not a score for "it" or "wow." Rachael checks off her boxes. They may not be the same boxes as skaters who don't have the jumps but do have the spirals or the spins or whatever, but she checks enough of them and she's the winner.
She got 5th at Worlds last year, the best performance by a U.S. lady in a couple of seasons. No reason to expect it will be too much different this year; in fact, with the U.S. title she may be even more confident than ever, plus she's continued to improve each season. She actually finished ahead of Mao in the freeskate at that one GP event -- have any of our other ladies beaten one of the big guns like Mao or Yu Na in any phase of any competition? I don't think so, if so please do let me know if I'm misremembering. Anyway, I think we have every reason to believe she'll represent the U.S. respectably if not dazzlingly at Olys/Worlds. And that may be all we can hope for at this time.
All the poor girl's done is skate solidly for 3 years running ...
Well, maybe now you can understand why it was irritating that some people were so rude about Sasha.
This girl is going to be a STAR. Her scores would have given her fourth place in the free skate and fifth overall. Wait until next year...she could certainly be a factor.
She beat Yuna in the FS at Skate America, by 5 points. Although for that to happen Yuna had to totally botch 3 of her jumping passes, one of which was the 3-3.
YAY!! Congratulations to Rachael and Mirai!!!! well deserved!!
Thank you, Sasha for bringing back the excitement to this event. I admire you so much and what a treat for us to see you again on the ice in this olympic year!!
All the skaters deserve standing ovation from everyone.
Not the same amount of points. 2A-3T is a combo and 3T-2A is a sequence. Sequences only get 80%.
Yes, I'm positive.Are you sure about that??
ON another forum someone said they thought at 1:00AM but not sure.
I'm proud of Sasha for getting back in the ring and battling it out with athletes so much younger than she-4th is not too bad for an old gal amongst all the new kids on the block! Sigh-if only she'd stood those jumps up. She clearly was not match tough. Physically she is in great condition. But all that aside-
Sasha's artistry was to die for, head and shoulders over everyone else imo and that GORGEOUS dress! I loved it! Her hair so elegant in a golden hair net.
I'm glad Sasha came back to light a fire in these young skaters-I'm sure she put a good scare into them and they each took it up a notch. Sasha was close-very close at 2nd place in the SP. 4th is nothing to be ashamed of at this level. I can only imagine how much better she would have been had she not been injured and had more time to train-or better yet if she had considered this at least a couple of years ago. But it's done.
BRAVA SASHA! BRAVA!!
Are you sure about that??
My twin 14 year old nephews who are NOT figure skating fans (they're more into Shaun White) for the first time watched the entire event with me because this is the first time they've watched an Olympic Trials before. They are completely confused and they do not understand why Mirai did not win....