Ladies' Long Program

[feraina]

Did anyone else notice Caroline checks her landing tracings after many of the jumps?

Wow, must be something in the water/ice here in Reading. Everyone's skating so much slower than usual, like they can barely find the energy to get through their programs.

Finally, Kimmie. She's always fast and feisty, let's see her power up some speed there!

 

[slutskayafan21]

1 Miki ANDO JPN 105.31 49.47 55.84 7.15 6.45 7.00 7.10 7.20 0.00 #10
2 Caroline ZHANG USA 96.87 45.11 51.76 6.55 6.00 6.50 6.70 6.60 0.00 #9
3 Mira LEUNG CAN 93.10 48.38 44.72 5.75 5.40 5.55 5.75 5.50 0.00 #6
4 Emily HUGHES USA 92.84 43.64 49.20 6.35 5.75 6.25 6.15 6.25 0.00 #8
5 Elene GEDEVANISHVILI GEO 87.76 44.08 43.68 5.55 5.15 5.40 5.65 5.55 0.00 #1
6 Alexandra IEVLEVA RUS 80.06 40.18 40.88 5.40 4.70 5.20 5.20 5.05 1.00 #4
7 Tugba KARADEMIR TUR 77.68 40.40 37.28 4.80 4.30 4.65 4.80 4.75 0.00 #2
8 Mai ASADA JPN 73.67 33.51 42.16 5.55 5.15 5.15 5.20 5.30 2.00 #7
9 Valentina MARCHEI ITA 71.80 33.92 38.88 5.00 4.60 4.70 5.00 5.00 1.00 #3
10 Binshu XU CHN 67.30 30.58 38.72 5.10 4.50 4.80 5.00 4.80 2.00 #5

1 Miki ANDO JPN 161.89 2 1
2 Caroline ZHANG USA 153.35 3 2
3 Emily HUGHES USA 140.50 4 4
4 Mira LEUNG CAN 139.14 6 3
5 Elene GEDEVANISHVILI GEO 126.06 11 5
6 Alexandra IEVLEVA RUS 124.84 8 6
7 Mai ASADA JPN 120.49 5 8
8 Tugba KARADEMIR TUR 119.26 10 7
9 Valentina MARCHEI ITA 116.44 9 9
10 Binshu XU CHN 112.46 7 10

Not an impressive score at all for the World Champion.

 

[Kypma]

I just don't understand why she is getting lower scores than her junior competitions...must be frustrating for her, and she might stop attempting the 3-3 if it keeps getting downgraded.

I hope she won't stop trying the 3-3 but rather keep working on it, that way the day it's right she can feel really proud of her accomplishments, and not wonder "what if I'd just kept trying a little longer?" because I think she knows she needs it down the road.

Kypma

 

[feraina]

Kimmie 3F/3T was shaky on the second landing, under-rotated I think. Hung on for the 3Z landing. Step-out on the 3S. Very slow sit spin. Popped second 3Z. Clean 3L (not much speed though). Late 2A/2T/2L, clean (fought for the landings though). Very late 2A (clean). Camel spin to end.

 

[Wrlmy]

was there any program Kimmie didn't include that turning camel thing?

 

[crazydreamer]

5 of Caroline's triples were downgraded? Can that be right?

 

[feraina]

Yikes! FIVE of Caroline's triples were downgraded?! Then it's a miracle she even got a TES as high as hers!

I suspect the 3/3 was downgraded to 2/2, the 3S to 2S. Which other two?

Wow, they're interviewing Kimmie right now?! That must be the fastest interview ever -- no time to put in another commercial break, eh?

 

[slutskayafan21]

Kimmie wins, I am not sure who should have won. Both Kimmie and Miki were mediocre. I guess Kimmie since Miki fell in her short program. Yu Na and Mao would blown both away on their worst day.

 

[Hsuhs]

The results are fair, aren't they?

 

[netnuts]

Yikes! FIVE of Caroline's triples were downgraded?! Then it's a miracle she even got a TES as high as hers!

I suspect the 3/3 was downgraded to 2/2, the 3S to 2S. Which other two?

Wow, they're interviewing Kimmie right now?! That must be the fastest interview ever -- no time to put in another commercial break, eh?

They must have misspoken. She only had 6 triples(?), it's impossible to get 40+ if only 1 triple is ratified.

I suspect two triples were downgraded...

I hate this CoP system, it's getting worse and worse. Nobody can understand what's going on... It's killing figure skating.

 

[rain]

I am very impressed with Meissner. Sure, there are definitely things to be worked on — as one would expect this early in the season. But I think she has now successfully developed into the total package skater. I've really noticed a wonderful artistry with her new programs. I think they both suit her really well, and she seems to be feeling the music. I think she definitley deserved the win here. I found Ando entirely shut-off performance-wise as she struggled to push through on the jumps (don't get me wrong, all skaters have performances like that and kudos to her for fighting through.)

Yeah, I too thought Mira should have ended up above Hughes (can't believe I just typed that — never thought I'd see the day). I thought their respective free skates were far enough apart in quality.

 

[netnuts]

I'm starting to lose patience with this silly CoP system... Geez.

 

[carolinefan177]

Dang five triples downgraded!? Looks like the judges are really crackin down...poor Caroline...I want to see the protocols!

 

[Kypma]

Kimmie wins, I am not sure who should have won. Both Kimmie and Miki were mediocre. I guess Kimmie since Miki fell in her short program. Yu Na and Mao would blown both away on their worst day.

Hm. Last year, Kimmie was the World Champion and was beaten by Miki, this year Miki is the reigning World Champion and Kimmie beats her.

As a side note, I can't beliece FIVE of Carolines triples were downgraded and she still wins the bronze!! I'm proud of her, it's just that it kind of shows that, at the beinning of the season, no one's at their best, I suppose...

Kypma

 

[slutskayafan21]

Watching this competition I think Mao and Yu-Na are probably going to be in their own little competition at Worlds.

 

[carolinefan177]

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpusa07/

 

[Mafke]

I just don't understand why she is getting lower scores than her junior competitions...must be frustrating for her, and she might stop attempting the 3-3 if it keeps getting downgraded.

Not having seen this performance I can't say for sure, but essentially she's a juvenile skater being allowed to do senior GP events (a stupid rule IMHO there should be one age limit for all competition).

As I always say, Zhang has huge potential, but for me, she's just not soup yet, I think she needs another year or two and some work to add some speed and get her jump technique in order (fix the flutz, better entries overall and full rotation).

 

[rain]

I am so annoyed right now that NBC wasted so much freakin time on talking to the ladies after their skates, on the warm-up, on other fluff crap — they could have easily worked in Belbin/Agosto and Dube/Davison's winning skates. This is why I hate American skating coverage. They have no interest in anything but singles. I should probably consider myself fortunate they even showed the men.

 

[feraina]

Definitely something in the water/ice here, even Kimmie wasn't as fast as usual. Actually, Emily was the only one who really seemed like she attacked her program.

The ironic thing is that Caroline, had she repeated her junior programs (even with one fewer of those incredible spins), would've probably won this competition.

But good for her to put out those tough (for her) elements, 3F/3T and 3S. I think she should keep trying them out in programs and not back down. This is her best year to get them down solid, when nobody expects her to do anything phenomenal on the senior circuit yet. I do want to see the protocols, though, to see if she really got 5 downgrades, or just 3 plus 2E for the flutzes.

 

[slutskayafan21]

She got 4 downgraded, both her triple lutzes were ruled to took off of the wrong edge, but only 1 was downgraded.