Does anyone know why Vivian got only one JGP assignment? And the super tough one on top of that...
Don't know about Vivian, but did ANY of the US Ladies get more than one assignment this season?
I don't recall seeing the same skaters so far at any of the events as opposed to the Russian and Japanese ladies. Perhaps USFS saw that the field was stacked and unlikely to have any US lady get into the GPF so they decided to give as many of them an opportunity to compete?
Wel, you're right. Every lady has only one assignment. But I thought Vivian proved last season that she's a competetive lady. IMO, with how things are going in JGP series, she would've chance for JGPF. But she didin't got an early assigment to prove that, so nothing can be done... :disapp: Different story of course, if she had injury or illness....
She was originally entered to go to Slovenia (along with her assignment in Germany). I believe she was dealing with injury, so that's why they switched her.
She was supposed to compete at a whole bunch of summer comps including Broadmoor and Glacier Falls. She ended up only doing the SP at Golden West in early August, so that probably prompted USFS to switch things up.
Is Vivian training right now? If she is, how is she doing?
FWIW: Ashley did not tag her, but I think Vivian was in this Team Raf photo from January.
(If the skater next to Mariah is not Vivian, then I apologize -- and will pre-emptively give assurance that I do not suffer from "all-Asians-look-alike" syndrome. I have Asian blood myself, and I think it is fair to say that the skater in the photo does closely resemble Vivian, although I cannot say with 100% certainty that she is Vivian.)