During Warm up
Sigi Heinrich: Well and there she is, the next figure skating child prodigy.
Hendryk Schamberger: Yes. And you can see here on the screen, her planned layout, triple Axel at the start, then triple Flip - triple Toeloop, I'm really excited to see how she can assert herself at her first start in the senior circuit.
S: Yes, because she jumps the triple Axel and Tuktamysheva as well, we will experience something strange, because...uhhhh
Did you see that?
H: Super!
S: This is madness, isn't it? Sensational! Two ladies, doing the triple Axel at this competition!
SP Start
S: So, let's go! Because now, dear viewers, a new star on the figure skating sky. Rika Kihara (sic!). Sixteen years old. Will start her short program with a triple axel. We could see it earlier in the warm up, where it worked perfectly. Would be nice, if it would work out now just as well.
Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy. Her costume is a little pale on the ice. But she can spice it up with a sporting achievement. Attention!
H: Ohh...noo! Jumped too far into the circle....
S: It's crazy. During the warmup....
H: Yep, yep...
S: So airy, so beautiful, wonderful!
H: It was a technical mistake. And, uhm, because she didn't land backwards, she will lose many points.
S: Aah, girl...
So, if you watched the rest of the program until now, it's a huge pity that it didn't work out.
H: Yes.
S: But it will happen....
H: Ohh..
S: Hehehe. She's winking. Just imagine, the triple Axel will work, she will bang out such a high score, all the others will get dizzy!
H: Yes, she would have been at the very front. Because the rest of the program was really good. Where she definitely improved is her quality of skating, last year she was very dependant on the triple Axel. When she fell on that, the rest of the program sometimes also fell apart. So she really did handle that well here. While I believe she will lose points in the technical score, as far as I could see in the first view, the Axel was underrotated. How much was missing, we need to see the slow-mo.
S: But in any way....
H: She has to jump out of the circle, she jumps too far into the circle, and yes, that will be downgraded. That took away many points.
S: Nevertheless here in Japan they can look forward to the coming career of Rika Kihara (sic!)
H: Mmmh...
S: She is a gigantic talent. And she's just starting out. And Japan in general has many good skaters. With Sakamoto, with Mihara, with Kihira....so it's not like it's all about the russian talent, Japan can hold their own. Korea can hold their own. The scene is still alive and in motion.
H: Yes, and she still has the Free. Ahh, yes,yes. Hehe, she probably also knows why it didn't work out. She still has the free, and uhm, she can get farther to the front than her placement now in the short will be. The question is, will she get into the last group, then she would be....
S: Naturally nervous....
H:Ah, 69 that could be enough for the last group, it would be crucial simply because she's with the top skaters in one group for the free.
S: And her program component scores are also quite decent...well....
H: Because it was a beautiful program.
. As someone said earlier in the thread, may the tiger stay awake all season [emoji23]
I have seen several tweets and people on my feed arguing with some of those people and the same arguments in youtube comments, i'm done. How do you even pre-rotate an axel at 180 degrees :rofl2: ? :think:
And Rika's 3A technique is not different from most men's 3A technique. I guess people coming after her after only one GP means she made quite an impression. I don't know what i hate more, the situation now (people using her name to come after Satoko and Alina) or people making fun of her for being inconsistent & having "small jumps" (that was the trend last season) 
