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- Mar 28, 2005
One thing I dont understand is why so many people look at junior results for clues on how things might go between young skaters that year and in the future. The problem with that is junior results are not legimately judged in the least, as suspect as senior judging may be at time, junior event judging is a complete farce with zero legitimitacy whatsoever, it is all about what peoples coaches and mommies do before the event, even skaters in their books speak of this. Look at some junior events past years:
94 World juniors-Szewcenko finishing 4th at the World JUNIORS the same year she finished 3rd at the World SENIORS, ummm ok. Szewecenko skated exactly the same performances at World juniors as World seniors, with a clean short with a triple loop-double toe, double axel, and double flip; and a clean long with two triple loops clean, two triple toes clean, and a clean triple salchow, with a hand down on the triple lutz(at Worlds's she two footed it so basicaly a wash).
96 World juniors-Tara Lipinski finishing 5th at World juniors, while 3 Russian women who never even made it to Senior Worlds, and would not be close to top 10 calibre at a senior Worlds at that time swept. Granted Tara did only a triple loop combo in the short which could explain her 7th in the short, and finished outside the top 10 at Worlds due to a poor short, but in the long she did the same performance she did to finish in the top 10 in the long program at Worlds that same year. She still was outside the top 3 in the long program portion.
2001 World juniors-This was the year the French and U.S formed block judging to put Weir, Lysacek, and Restancourt on the podium and keep Lambiel and the other contenders off the podium no matter how they skated.
So the World juniors are the biggest farce of an event out there, and I cant believe people look to the results of it for a basis of anything. It should be treated as just a laugh off kids-having-fun kind of event which in reality is all it is, with mommies, daddies, and coaches deciding the results.
Already people are looking at Kim's upset win over Asada at the WJs this year as a sign of something. Sorry it means nothing until something happens in seniors between them. Aside from the fact Asada skated nowhere near her best who knows what that result was based on if typical judging at World juniors is any indication.
94 World juniors-Szewcenko finishing 4th at the World JUNIORS the same year she finished 3rd at the World SENIORS, ummm ok. Szewecenko skated exactly the same performances at World juniors as World seniors, with a clean short with a triple loop-double toe, double axel, and double flip; and a clean long with two triple loops clean, two triple toes clean, and a clean triple salchow, with a hand down on the triple lutz(at Worlds's she two footed it so basicaly a wash).
96 World juniors-Tara Lipinski finishing 5th at World juniors, while 3 Russian women who never even made it to Senior Worlds, and would not be close to top 10 calibre at a senior Worlds at that time swept. Granted Tara did only a triple loop combo in the short which could explain her 7th in the short, and finished outside the top 10 at Worlds due to a poor short, but in the long she did the same performance she did to finish in the top 10 in the long program at Worlds that same year. She still was outside the top 3 in the long program portion.
2001 World juniors-This was the year the French and U.S formed block judging to put Weir, Lysacek, and Restancourt on the podium and keep Lambiel and the other contenders off the podium no matter how they skated.
So the World juniors are the biggest farce of an event out there, and I cant believe people look to the results of it for a basis of anything. It should be treated as just a laugh off kids-having-fun kind of event which in reality is all it is, with mommies, daddies, and coaches deciding the results.
Already people are looking at Kim's upset win over Asada at the WJs this year as a sign of something. Sorry it means nothing until something happens in seniors between them. Aside from the fact Asada skated nowhere near her best who knows what that result was based on if typical judging at World juniors is any indication.