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- Jun 21, 2003
What was magnificent about that performance was how the jumps augmented, embellished and supported the program as a whole. And in fact she got mostly 5.7s for tech and all 5.8s and 5.9s for presentation, not the other way around.I remember that! I thought it was magnificent, back in the days when I was uncultured.
OT. That competition also illustrated the peculiarities of the judging system. There was a qualifying round, split into two groups, Michelle got 2nd in her group, then 3rd in the SP, then 1st in the LP. Irina Slutskaya went 1-2-2 and Maria Butyrskaya came in at 1-1-3. Who wins?
In the LP, after Michelle skated she had to wait to see what the remporary leader Butryskaya would do, and then sill had to hope that last-to-skate Slutskaya would precisely insert herself between Kwan and Butyrskaya, (whcih she did: Kwan 3.6 factored placements + tiebreaker. Slutskaya 3.6 factored placements, Butyrskaya 4,0 factored placements.)
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