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She may not be skating for the medals and being from Italy, she has the opportunity to continue for whatever her heart wants. She may just move us with her courage and artistry.
Kostner to attend Mishin's camp
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She may not be skating for the medals and being from Italy, she has the opportunity to continue for whatever her heart wants. She may just move us with her courage and artistry.
While Mao and Julia used Saitama as a "revenge" to Sochi, and for Mao it was home, Carolina decided to go to Saitama at the very last moment, and she hadn't "the head" on the competition any more. When she was back in Italy from Sochi, she attended TV shows and interviews and other manifestations (she was invited to open Venice Carnival, " flying" from the top of S.Marco Bell Tower to S. Marco Square...Of course she "bombed" Saitama arriving third!
If she trained with Mishin, she can test their jumps, and Liza test her ability to skate: one re-learns how to jump triples (though recently she effortlessy landed a beautiful Loop and Salchow and a double Axel) and the other one (which I like a lot) how to slide better and perform more intensely
Because you can ALWAYS fail a jump ( see Hanyu at Worlds), but you don't forget how to skate to
music ( see Chan).
Mao was badly treated by the judges, but Mao was more a challenge to the other skaters than Carolina might be. Let we see.
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Why not? But she can have more goals.
Mao failed on most of her 3A attempts and had at least three "<" signs on the score sheet along with other mistakes this season. Of course they didn't give her the lead in PCS based on that. If Mao and Carolina will overcome their issues (underrotations for Mao, stamina for Caro), their PCS will hopefully rise above Medvedeva as it should be.
Perhaps now Carolina is "mind-free". She has won what she wanted, and can do what she wants.
Carolina is a great skater, but I didn't like that she often got gifted in PCS when she didn't skate well. 2014 Worlds LP is one example. I can see how a skater can still get the highest PCS with one or two errors, but she had several major mistakes in that program yet still got the highest PCS with some 9s in PE and a few 10s for CH. I do wonder if judges will change the trend as they did with Patrick now that the field has gotten more competitive and new favorites have emerged.
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You know, I hope Carolina is coming back for the joy of skating because I can't see her winning a medal or even finishing in the top 5 with the strength of the current Ladies field. She is certainly fast and when I saw her it was before her Olympic success which may help her with the judges. However, she was not, IMO, a very good performer and her PCS were out of control.
It was like watching a skating video even though I was sitting there watching her as she had no connection with the audience. I'm sure she has improved greatly since she's been touring during her time off. But, I can't see her beating any of the ladies in the final flight.
It was like watching a skating video even though I was sitting there watching her as she had no connection with the audience. I'm sure she has improved greatly since she's been touring during her time off. But, I can't see her beating any of the ladies in the final flight.
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As much as I admire Carolina for her skating and achievements I think she was gifted medals by the judges.
2014 Bronze medal is one of the best examples.
I just learned from her Wikipedia page that she did not miss European Championships podium even once between 2006 - 2014 (!) with 5 gold medals along the way.
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But again, like Carolina, that's if she lands them.
Agree.
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This is the program I saw Carolina perform but it was not at Worlds. She is SO much better here at Worlds in 2004. BTW.......If someone were to bring "Song from A Secret Garden" back, I would not complain as it's one gorgeous piece of music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuwrdXlFVRc
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None of the top ladies currently are significantly lacking in skating skills, and modern skaters (both male and female) are expected to load up their programs with transitions if they hope to compete for top marks, which makes getting high PCS and landing all the jumps doubly difficult. Judges don't appreciate going light on transitions these days. Going to be super hard for Carolina.
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I sort of don't agree because look at the marks for Wagner and Gold - it would appear the Americans are being held up constantly by pcs though Ashley did skate well finally at worlds. Look at Gold even with errors she gets amazing pcs.
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Hope she does well & works on her spins =D
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Alexey Mishin: 'Carolina will take part in our group's training camp. She'll come to Estonia, Tartu. It starts from 18th of May to 29th of May. And then we'll see what's next.'
Source: http://tass.ru/sport/3281123
Source: http://tass.ru/sport/3281123
I think one might be very sceptical about that project. She was lucky enough to get her world title against a weak field (nothing to argue about that per se, a title is a title, and if the others aren't able to show up with better programs, it's their fault) and with the Olympic Bronze the got the maximum given her story of technical problems and inconsistencies over years. Even in Sochi there were some wobbles - the triple loop, the first jump of her second combination, the end of the third combination (Kim only had one not so ideal jump (her second lutz)). The pirouettes are not high quality (and Mishin is not exactly the right one to fix that, if it CAN be fixed - I doubt that: with 30 one is not going to be a new Lipnitskaya or at least Pogorilaya, who made noticeable progress that year), Kim also lost points in that area.
And the PCS boost, like others mentioned here, will not be significant (see Asada). PCS follows technical difficulty, first and foremost Medvedeva this year. And as things are - there easily will be some brilliant jumpers around, who "outjump" Kostner not only by a narrow margin.
And the PCS boost, like others mentioned here, will not be significant (see Asada). PCS follows technical difficulty, first and foremost Medvedeva this year. And as things are - there easily will be some brilliant jumpers around, who "outjump" Kostner not only by a narrow margin.
