PLEASE NOTE: All of these worlds reports are copyright Golden Skate and are not to be copied & pasted to other internet message boards, web-sites or email lists. You are very welcome to link to the forums from other web-sites. Registration is required, but it’s free.
Group #1
Fumie Suguri JPN Start # 1
Ordinals 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Symphony #40 by Mozart really pretty turqoise with flowing bell sleeves
3z3t great start / she’s flying across the ice / 3f landed partially forward on the wrong foot & changed feet / 3s is good / just missed a spin / flycam is very nice good stretch / end of 1st section and she’s doing some lovely chor to slower section / 3l went into it really tentative and it went up bad could see it wouldn’t happen landed on 2 feet / 3z is high & pretty / travelling 3’s into 3t / 2a / layback with stretched strt leg is very nice / music picks up with piano and so does she to do a 2f / O ftwrk starts over very detailed then a big split jump and into simpler turns all in same direction / excellent combo spin with very fast scratch to end /
Viktoria Volchkova RUS Start # 2
Ordinals 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
Four Seasons / Air – Bach Black with pink trim
Huge 3z3t / 3l from really slow entrance but she popped it high / 3f / layback is fast & centered not as good pos as it could be / now into heavy 4 seasons music / 3s / these jumps are just gorgeous – the type we all know she’s capable of / there was just some footwork in a circular pattern but not sure if it was her seq / 3t at the boards in front of me – didn’t get a good look at it / back to Air / 2a / four seasons again 3z fell / combo spin with nice catch foot & possible a miss on a catchfoot on the back end / forward scratch to end /
Michelle Kwan USA Start # 3
Ordinals 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
Tosca – Puccini Dark peach with crisscross back /
Really taking her time skating around getting into position / loop didn’t get off the ice / 3z2t / some chor and around to this end for 3f / 2a / flycam to lovely stretch pos perfectly centered and went very well with the music change / music is building and she comes around for 3s2t / layback is quite good with strt leg & arms behind back / not sure how next spin started but ended in stretched pos looking at ceiling / her trademark inside out spiral / 3t / 3z fell / strt ftwrk that goes very well with music & has lots of body in it but moves across the ice on the slow side / flysit to back scratch is very good /
Keren Shua Haim ISR Start # 4
Ordinals 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Carmen black with open back
2a fell / missed the next few jumps in shock over Michelle being placed first / 3s under rot landed low on both feet / missed more of her skate trying to get re-connect to the ‘net to post the first 3 skaters – sorry about that but I figured people would want to know as soon as possible
Lucie Krausova CZE Start # 5
Ordinals 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Havana soundtrack & Mambo Kings soundtrack / bright dark red with orangey trim around neck
3?? Fell didn’t see take off / 3f wild free leg on landing but think it was clean – far end of ice / travel 3’s into 3t fell out / 1a / sit ch sit to Y was fast on front very slow on back / music softens & slows and some chor / 3l fell / 2z / might have missed some stuff between the loop & the z / strt ftwrk is simple but goes with music / 2s /
I have to add that no one sitting around me thinks Michelle should be in 1st place
Group #1
Fumie Suguri JPN Start # 1
Ordinals 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Symphony #40 by Mozart really pretty turqoise with flowing bell sleeves
3z3t great start / she’s flying across the ice / 3f landed partially forward on the wrong foot & changed feet / 3s is good / just missed a spin / flycam is very nice good stretch / end of 1st section and she’s doing some lovely chor to slower section / 3l went into it really tentative and it went up bad could see it wouldn’t happen landed on 2 feet / 3z is high & pretty / travelling 3’s into 3t / 2a / layback with stretched strt leg is very nice / music picks up with piano and so does she to do a 2f / O ftwrk starts over very detailed then a big split jump and into simpler turns all in same direction / excellent combo spin with very fast scratch to end /
Viktoria Volchkova RUS Start # 2
Ordinals 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
Four Seasons / Air – Bach Black with pink trim
Huge 3z3t / 3l from really slow entrance but she popped it high / 3f / layback is fast & centered not as good pos as it could be / now into heavy 4 seasons music / 3s / these jumps are just gorgeous – the type we all know she’s capable of / there was just some footwork in a circular pattern but not sure if it was her seq / 3t at the boards in front of me – didn’t get a good look at it / back to Air / 2a / four seasons again 3z fell / combo spin with nice catch foot & possible a miss on a catchfoot on the back end / forward scratch to end /
Michelle Kwan USA Start # 3
Ordinals 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
Tosca – Puccini Dark peach with crisscross back /
Really taking her time skating around getting into position / loop didn’t get off the ice / 3z2t / some chor and around to this end for 3f / 2a / flycam to lovely stretch pos perfectly centered and went very well with the music change / music is building and she comes around for 3s2t / layback is quite good with strt leg & arms behind back / not sure how next spin started but ended in stretched pos looking at ceiling / her trademark inside out spiral / 3t / 3z fell / strt ftwrk that goes very well with music & has lots of body in it but moves across the ice on the slow side / flysit to back scratch is very good /
Keren Shua Haim ISR Start # 4
Ordinals 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Carmen black with open back
2a fell / missed the next few jumps in shock over Michelle being placed first / 3s under rot landed low on both feet / missed more of her skate trying to get re-connect to the ‘net to post the first 3 skaters – sorry about that but I figured people would want to know as soon as possible
Lucie Krausova CZE Start # 5
Ordinals 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Havana soundtrack & Mambo Kings soundtrack / bright dark red with orangey trim around neck
3?? Fell didn’t see take off / 3f wild free leg on landing but think it was clean – far end of ice / travel 3’s into 3t fell out / 1a / sit ch sit to Y was fast on front very slow on back / music softens & slows and some chor / 3l fell / 2z / might have missed some stuff between the loop & the z / strt ftwrk is simple but goes with music / 2s /
I have to add that no one sitting around me thinks Michelle should be in 1st place