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Grand Prix Final Thoughts and Results: Ladies Short
In skating order (full results below): Akiko Suzuki, Japan (57.54): Great start for Suzuki!!! Think the crowd was expecting a higher score...it was hard not to get excited about the way she was skating. Ashley Wagner, USA (54.26): A good performance from Wagner, but her triple flip landing...
Kim Wins Short Program at World Championships
South Korea's Yu-na Kim is in first after the ladies short program at the World Figure Skating championships. Unsurprisingly, she once again broke a record, posting the best ever short program score for a woman at 76.12. She was 8.2 points ahead of Canadian Joannie Rochette, who holds second...
EVAN LYSACEK WINS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS!
Sorry, I was a little excited. Because after watching several skaters stumble their way through watered down programs, American Evan Lysacek came out there and Won. He was clean, and he sold it, and he was great. And all without the quad! heh. There are some major reasons why this is a great...
Do You Agree?
Philip Hersh had some things to say about the ladies at Four Continents this weekend. He had a glowing review of Caroline Zhang: Caroline Zhang's free skate could be a transformational moment in her senior-level career. No matter how you looked at it, the 15-year-old Californian moved with far...
Alissa Czisny Tops Ladies Field after Short Program
Well, the ladies have skated their shorts and here are some thoughts on the top girls. Full results are below. Alissa Czisny (!) gets an exclamation mark because I love to watch her skate and am so happy she did so well (personal best, woot!). It was a great performance. I would love to see that...
Around the Blogs
Two posts that deserve some highlighting: Aaron at Axels, Loops, and Spins has devoted a post to questioning why Mao Asada's attempted triple axel combination, which was determined to not quite be a triple axel, received additional deductions. Here's the part I don't get. Not only was the jump...
A Good Day for Canadians and World Champions at Trophee Eric Bompard
...but not such a good day for everyone else, apparently. I haven't been watching, but per AFP, Philip Hersh and ESPN: Canada's Patrick Chan leads the men at TEB with a season best score, while errors by Japan's Takahiko Kozuka and France's Brian Joubert left them in second and third,...
American Men Finish 1-2 at Cup of China; Recaps below
Jeremy Abbott and Stephen Carriere of the United States capitalized on the absence of Dice-K at the Cup of China, finishing first and second after great performances in both the short and long programs. 2008 European Champion Tomas Verner of the Czech Republic came in third. Short Program...
Home-Crowd Favorite Joannie Rochette Leads Ladies Competition at Skate Canada
It was a very sloppy day of skating for the ladies at Skate Canada. But, in the end, Joannie Rochette, four-time Canadian champion, was the last woman standing (though, not quite the only woman standing). The Canadian Press reports that she got a personal best score of 64.74 for her short program...
A Bit Perplexed About Ladies Short Program
Wow. Um, I think I need to take some lessons on the Code of Points, because Korean two-time defending Grand Prix Champ Yu-Na Kim is so far ahead of the rest of the field (with a 69.50), despite having a flawed program, that I just do not understand how it goes. But she had the best program by...
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