Ladies Free Skate

[museksk8r]

Probably her best LP ever, including when she won her bronze at Worlds.

Hopefully, skating that LP in Turino takes a little bit of the sting away from having skated so poorly at the last Olympics there. I bet her countrymen/women are thinking, "why couldn't she have done that in '06?!" Carolina!

 

[ArwenIcePrincess]

Good for Caroline! Even if she doesn't medal, it's certainly a good start! Especially going into Nats...

 

[bibi]

Caroline Zhang
Ave Maria
Lovely light blue dress

Lovely angelic facial expression at start
3F-3T, characteristic mule kick but nice otherwise
3(f)Z-2T, same as above
Back spiral into 2A
2A again, clean
Flying sit spin, nice and fast and centered
Combo spin, the rest of her skating is so gentle that her forced-looking jumps are all the more jarring
3F (?), nice!
Spiral slower than Carolina (duh) but steady and beautiful
3R-2T-2Z
3(f)Z, fallout
Circular steps, very lovely if not the most intricate
Her crazy-awesome-layback-pearl-Biellmann
Combo spin to end

Besides that last fallout, that was lovely and well performed. She seems to be gaining more and more quality to her skating as the season goes. She seems quite happy herself.

thanks a lot mizu_iro for the wonderful reports! Are you in Torino or you're watching it on tv?

 

[slutskayafan21]

1 Mao ASADA JPN 132.55 73.35 59.20 7.55 7.10 7.40 7.50 7.45 0.00 #1
2 Carolina KOSTNER ITA 119.07 60.35 58.72 7.55 6.85 7.50 7.45 7.35 0.00 #4
3 Caroline ZHANG USA 114.66 62.22 53.44 6.80 6.40 6.85 6.80 6.55 1.00 #5
4 Yukari NAKANO JPN 113.18 59.06 55.12 7.05 6.70 6.95 6.85 6.90 1.00 #3
5 Kimmie MEISSNER USA 95.14 43.66 54.48 7.15 6.75 6.45 6.90 6.80 3.00 #2

Overall standings:

1 Mao ASADA JPN 191.59 6 1
2 Carolina KOSTNER ITA 178.93 3 2
3 Caroline ZHANG USA 176.48 2 3
4 Yukari NAKANO JPN 172.96 4 4
5 Kimmie MEISSNER USA 154.22 5 5

 

[ks777]

wow, Caroline!! really good score!!

 

[ArwenIcePrincess]

FPl. Name Nat. Points SP FS
1 Mao ASADA JPN
191.59 6 1
2 Carolina KOSTNER ITA
178.93 3 2
3 Caroline ZHANG USA
176.48 2 3
4 Yukari NAKANO JPN
172.96 4 4
5 Kimmie MEISSNER USA
154.22 5 5

 

[netnuts]

Caroline Z.

FS:114 pts, PB, 62 in TES, I believe it's the second highest behind Mao.

 

[R.D.]

She fell 3 times and only managed 1 clean triple.

I couldn't have read that right...THREE falls? I used to think she was such a fighter.

Well, bye bye US skating, for now anyway. Seems like Zhang is making a name for herself in the process though, good for her.

I know YuNa hasn't skated yet but I think this one is over.

 

[emma]

thanks a million for the awesome pbps--- i can't believe i missed this, i couldn't figure out how to find the channel on tvAnts (but thanks to those who tried to help us with that).

I'm so impressed by Mao and Carolina and Caroline and feel so bad for Kimmie!!! Great comp, though.

 

[carolinefan177]

114.88 for Caroline 176 overall (that lutz could have been the difference of a medal and not)

 

[*Sniper*]

Wow, CaroZ knocks Nakano off the podium!
Good for her.
A lot to look forward to from her in the coming years.

 

[R.D.]

Wow, CaroZ knocks Nakano off the podium!
Good for her.

 

[ks777]

gorgeous 3flip/3toe but fell on her loop.. I like Yuna's sit spin. pretty. It seems like everyone is bringing it unlike the SP, how exciting!!

 

[dlarry1]

Just think where she (CZ) would be if her PCS weren't almost 5.5 (!!??!!) points lower than the colt...

Still, she seems pleased, so I hope this is a great experience for her.

 

[mizu_iro]

I'm watching on Daum...wish I was there!

Yu-Na Kim
Miss Saigon
Pink dress in character of music

PLEASE CLEAN!!
Her facial expressions look more dramatic than before
3F-3T, TAT loves it
3R, fall...I think Mao's got it.
Flying sit spin, nice and low
3Z-2T, leaves off the 2R
Spiral sequence, her edges are really very nice
2A-3T, perfect
Combo spin with her wonderful layover
3Z, beautiful
3S, beautiful again
Change-foot-sit, nice
SLSS, right to the music
Ina bauer - 2A, lovely as always
Final combo spin

It was a great performance...it was only the 3R fall...she doesn't seem unhappy, maybe a bit like "Well, that's that..."

 

[*Sniper*]

So one fall and the rest was clean??

 

[carolinefan177]

OMG Who is going to win??? Mao or Yu-Na?????????

 

[slutskayafan21]

I think with only 1 fall Yu Na still might get it. It will be really close.

 

[ks777]

It is going to be very close!!! Yuna also skated very beautifully. She just fell on her 3loop but other than that she was beautiful.

 

[netnuts]

Yu-Na Kim is going to win this, both free and total... You can take it to the bank.