lutz Stories - Required Elements
Trophee Eric Bompard Cachemire: Good, Bad, Indifferent...and Ugly
The Good: Nobunari Oda's Chaplin free skate hit all the right notes for me. It didn't feel overdone. He also didn't overestimate himself - he admitted he did not have a quad last week and didn't push it, while most of the jumps he did land were great. The program was a departure from Oda's...
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...
Grand Prix Recap: Ladies
So glad that Mao Asada won this competition, she definitely deserved it. But I feel that it was entirely too close to be comfortable with. She only won by a bit more than two points, despite the fact that Yu-Na Kim fell in the short, fell in the free and popped a lutz in the free. The only major...
Nerves Get to Kim In Short?
I haven't been able to watch the Grand Prix ladies short program yet, as I had to go to work, but International Herald Tribune is reporting that nerves and pressure of being at home did get to Kim in her opening skate, as she popped her lutz jump. Still - she's in first place (by less than a...
Please Welcome Back, Mr. Bob Lutz!
Here I was, wondering if we'd ever see Wichita Eagle columnist Bob Lutz write K-State again (not that we'd be sad if he didn't). Back on November 28, 2007, Lutz typed a column in which he called out Frank Martin for his potty-mouth while ignoring a previous column in which he exonerated KU...
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