Olympics Ladies SP: Results;
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Jenni finished 25th out of 30 in the SP, with a score of 56.97.
Here is what I wrote in the competition thread at the time:
Beautiful, but unfortunately not perfect.
I think the occasion got to her.
Oh Simon, don't say she mightn't qualify!
That close-up shot of her at the end of the programme that they showed in the highlights was heartbreaking. At least there wasn't any tears.
She takes an 8.29 point lead over Shabotova.
CaroLiza_fan
Fortunately, Jenni did qualify for the Free Skate. Although, when going through the results table at the end of the broadcast, Simon Reed was still confused with what was happening. So, I posted the following in response:
Simon: "I bet Jenni Saarinen is glad Kamila Valieva did compete, because she got through because of it"
Erm, maybe he should think about it a bit harder.
If Kamila hadn't competed, there would have been 1 less person in front of Jenni. So Jenni would have been 24th. And therefore she would have got through via the normal Top 24 going through rules.
These revised rules mean Kamila being there or not made no difference whatsoever to Jenni going through or not. Which is exactly what the revised rules were designed for.
CaroLiza_fan
Now that that is all cleared up, let's get back to Jenni's Short Programme.
She had a shakey start. The opening element was a combination. But, she didn't have a great landing on the first part of it and, as Simon said in commentary, it was actually a "Triple Toe-Triple Toe with an extra turn in the middle". Chris Howarth elaborated explaining that "her weight wasn't over the right side on that first one, so there was nothing she could do apart from put that turn in between them". The Judges didn't like it, with five of them giving her -1, and the other three giving her -2. In terms of GOE, she was given -0.54.
It was the next element, the Salchow, that was the most costly. She had a pop, which resulted in her doing a Double rather than the required Triple. It was invalidated, so she got absolutely nothing for it.
Jumps getting invalidated because there were not enough rotations is one thing I really hate about the rules. At least give the skaters points for what they did manage to do! The Base Value for a Double Salchow is 1.30 points. Yes, Jenni would have got minus GOE and minus marks from the Judges because it wasn't a great Double Salchow because of the pop. But, at least she would have been getting something.
Anyway, after that everything was beautiful. And the GOE and the marks from the Judges reflected that. Lafge positive GOE on everything, and lots of +2's and +3's from the Judges. Judge 8 even gave her a +4 for her third element, the Flying Sit Spin. And she got extra credit for her fourth element, the Double Axel, because it was in the second half of the programme.
Jenni is currently 2.11 points behind 24th position, Ekaterina KURAKOVA (POL), and 4.57 points ahead of 26th position, Josefin TALJEGÅRD (SWE).
As Jenni is the last to qualify for the FS, it is the gaps ahead of her that matter. And after the initial gap to Kurakova, it is very tight. There is just 2.74 points covering 16th position, Ekaterina RYABOVA (AZE), to Kurakova in 24th position. Ryabova is 4.85 points ahead of Jenni.
So, if Jenni puts in as good a Free Skate as we know she is capable of, there is potential to move significantly up the order.
WELL DONE JENNI!!!
The Ladies FS is due to start at 18:00:00 CST (10:00:00 GMT / 12:00:00 EET). So 4 hours from now.
Jenni will be the 1st skater to start.
She is due to start at 18:07:45 CST (10:07:45 GMT / 12:07:45 EET). So 4h 7m from now.
But, those times may change if somebody that is due on before her withdraws.
Here is the link for the IOC livestream on the IOC YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmYLoi8sD-Y
Here is the link for the British Eurosport 1 coverage on the Eurosport Player (starts in 3h 55m from now):
https://www.eurosportplayer.com/olympics/videos/eurosport-1-british/free-skating-e1-coverage-2247400
Here is the link for the World Feed coverage on the Eurosport Player (starts in 3h 55m from now):
https://www.eurosportplayer.com/olympics/videos/eurosport/free-program
Here is the Time Schedule:
https://results.isu.org/results/sea...----------FNL-000100--_StartListwithTimes.pdf
And here is the live scoring:
https://results.isu.org/results/season2122/owg2022/SEG004.htm
Hope this helps
ALL THE BEST JENNI!!!
CaroLiza_fan