Ladies - Short Program
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Your not understanding my point. I'm not saying that a skater will win because they have skated best throughout the season. What I'm saying is that a skater skating consistently throughout the season is more likely to hold up against a skater who has been inconsistent this season.
My point: If you implode under the pressure of Skate America, Trophey Bombard, and the Grand prix finals, what makes me think your going to handle the pressure of worlds.
Sarah Hughes was an incredibly consistent performer throughout her career, from what I remember. No, she wasn't winning everything but she was consistent...
As for Arakawa, she didn't skate terribly at the Grand Prix last year, she just drew tough draws. If you look at Arakawa's total scores, she was in the top 3 of all the Olympic eligible contendors. Besides, Sasha had a history of making mistakes at major competitions, and Irina had imploded at the last Olympics. So Arakawa a former world champion holding up wasn't a ridiculous thought.
Kimmie I think could hold up, she has proven she can deliver in the past.. But I dont know because even in her great performances she's still popped one of her combos.
In all honesty you cannot compare Kostner and Arakawa to Ando, Mao, and Kostner. Kostner hasn't skated much but she has a history of folding under pressure...Mao has been imploding on several occassions, and miki has a history of imploding as well.
I don't think we've ever seen Hughes, or Arakawa give those kind of performances...
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I don't remember Joannie's SP at Torino but her LP was wonderful and many felt she wuzrobbed. So, perhaps she'll do the same in Tokyo. The "T...o" formula may be a charm.
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Kimmie didn't implode anywhere this season. Kimmie is the kind of skater who works toward a peak. What matters is that her best performances come at the most important events. Plus Yu Na wasn't squeaky clean the entire season. If memory serves me correct she made a few mistakes in the LP at the Gp final but others fared worse.
Yu na made some mistakes but not major ones. But the fact is that I'm not really including Kimmie that much in my point because Yu-na has a 7 point lead over Kimmie.. Considering the fact that Kimmie's been struggling with those combos all season long, I highly doubt that Kimmie's going to score enough to overtake Yu-na. It would require a major impolding on Yu-na's part, that I don't see happening. Besides Yu-na is sure to get better PCS than Kimmie as well. Don't get me wrong Kimmie could beat Yu-na in the long..But I don't think she'll be able to beat her overall, without a lot of help from Yu-na.
The people with the best shot of beating Yu-na are Miki and Caroline, and both girls are notoriously inconsistent.
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Joannie Rochette's problem is that she doesn't seem to be able to skate two clean programs in a competition. She can have a good SP, then a bad FS, or a bad SP and a great FS.
So there is hope that she can pull up a few places in the FS here. If she can skate a pb, she might even be able to make top 10, but at the same time, at least 2 or 3 skaters in the final flights would have to lay major bombs. What makes the task much more difficult is that she leads off the second flight, and that may tend to keep her PCS scores lower than she needs.
So there is hope that she can pull up a few places in the FS here. If she can skate a pb, she might even be able to make top 10, but at the same time, at least 2 or 3 skaters in the final flights would have to lay major bombs. What makes the task much more difficult is that she leads off the second flight, and that may tend to keep her PCS scores lower than she needs.
Do u know how high she needs to climb to in order to keep two berths for Canada? Canada is really in danger of losing one spot.
Isn't it top 10?
She's 5 points out of top 12 and about 8 points out of top 10.
She'll have to really go for it and keep her focus.
Does anyone know the site where it breaks down the scores?
Basically, she's in league with Mira Leung at the moment, both points and ranking wise. How sad! If Joannie continues to crumble, Mira Leung will probaly overtake her in the long program since Joannie did not get the PCS spread as I previously predicted. Her PCS in the SP were low 6s, some even in 5s. Just shocking.
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She had a rough spots in her LP at SC, but was still a joy to watch.
SP on CBC
Mira Leung: Wow, she's really awkward, the body line is just not very appealing.
Carolina Kostner, effortless triple+triple, wow.
Joannie, what a disaster, she's losing her marbles. So slow and lackluster, I perceive a coach shakeup is on the horizon.
Mira Leung: Wow, she's really awkward, the body line is just not very appealing.
Carolina Kostner, effortless triple+triple, wow.
Joannie, what a disaster, she's losing her marbles. So slow and lackluster, I perceive a coach shakeup is on the horizon.
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Can you elaborate?
As far as I love Mao, your sour-grape attitude is just laughable. Yu-Na Kim is on fire, I watched it on youtube, and will soon see it on TV screen. All the Japanese fans were on their feet. She is phenomenal today. If Mao was able to score over 70 points, I don't see why Yu-Na Kim should not.
Yu-Na has the best 3+3 in the business, the entrance into 2A is so difficult. Let alone her artistry, she is just stunning.
To be honest with u, I don't believe Mao could beat this program even with a clean skate. This program is just so exciting.
BTW, the Japanese audience is just great, civil, fair and warm!
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wow, you must really hate that yuna scored better than miki, to go looking for things like that.
and please, "that skater?"??
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