I just found
a new clip of Laurine's SP from the Coupe du Printemps which has a much better angle than the livestream clip did, and not only is it gorgeous, you can really see how good her jump technique is becoming. She used to use a bit of a mule kick to help her get around the second jump in a combination, but here it's just a neat little clip of the toepick against the ice and up she goes, both times (I know the second jump is a 2T here, but when somebody finally puts up her Worlds SP again I'll be looking to see if I'm remembering the same thing there correctly).
Laurine also had a couple of comments listed in the ISU's qick quotes for the
Ladies SP and
FS. She noted that it's the first time she's skated a clean short program at a World Championships - I hope she's still feeling proud of that! And in her FS comments she said that she'd changed coaches every year during the past Olympic cycle, but now feels that with Kori she's found a place where she can settle and have everything work. And she was happy with her free skate because of how well the audience responded.
Four coaches in four years is not an ideal situation to say the least, so it's amazing to think of how much she's accomplished in somewhat disadvantageous conditions!
I also tracked down what I think is the source of the 3A rumours, but didn't think to keep a link - it's a clip on Facebook of Laurine training a 3A in harness with (I think) her previous coach but one. It looked great - she should definitely go for it for real...
ETA: Tracked it down again - it was
actually just 9 months ago, and posted on the FFSG Facebook page! Hope that means she really is training it seriously...
