- Joined
- Mar 28, 2005
Fumie Suguri has had a very fine career, quietly working her way up the ranks, until almost without notice entering the contenders ranks around 2002. She has scored some noteable achievements, including two World bronzes(2002 and 2003)and a World silver(2006), along with two top 5 finishes at Olympics. However she has yet to win a World title or an Olympic medal. She also has had experiences like at the recent Olympics, where skating close to her best, and almost error free, she was still judged inferior to a badly flawed Cohen and badly flawed and tenative Slutskaya. Whether just or not, that type of thing must be ego deflating to a top skater, along with a big dissapointment. So what is missing for her to take the next step that her countrywoman Arakawa, who is far less consistently successful then Suguri, but able to rise to the peaks that Fumie cannot, has taken?