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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...
Golden West Update
Looks like Rachael Flatt easily won Golden West, per Jennifer Kirk's True/Slant blog. And I am very excited about the short program, because: In the past, Flatt hasn’t been the most exciting skater, and while I respect her ability to skate cleanly under pressure, her performances have generally...
Ladies Worlds Preview
Well, let's not kid ourselves. I am going to go along with pretty much everyone else in the world and assume that the ladies world championship will be won by either Korea's Yu-na Kim or Japan's Mao Asada. But it's worth taking a look at the field anyway: Japan's Mao Asada: Asada is the reigning...
World Pairs Preview
The 2009 world championships pairs short program takes place tomorrow in Los Angeles. Here is a look at some of the top couples that will likely be contending for medals this week. I'm not going to hit all the couples, just the ones I think have the best chance at being on the podium. There's...
Oohhhh Snap
Todd Eldredge totally disses Johnny Weir and Evan Lysacek in this Denver Post article (also, after writing that sentence, I realized I am still in fifth grade). First, Eldredge answers the question of what does skating need: "It needs a Jeremy Abbott, a Brandon Mroz," Eldredge said. "It needs a...
The Celebrity of Yu-Na Kim
Here's a cute article from JoongAng Daily that is worth a read just to get an idea of the mass celebrity of Yu-Na Kim: it’d only be a slight exaggeration to say all eyes will be fixed on this lithe skater. Kim is such an omnipresent figure that you could do the following on any given day. For...
NHK Trophy Recap: Day One
The final Grand Prix event (other than the final!), the NHK Trophy, is underway in Tokyo, Japan. Day One of competition has been completed and here is a brief recap of the top performers. Ladies: Japanese World Champion Mao Asada is back and regained short program confidence with this effort. She...
Scoring System Woes
The Seattle Times' Ron Judd articulates my complaints about tonight's competition when he writes about how the crowd doesn't understand the new scoring system. The Skate America crowd at Comcast Arena in Everett, Washington believe that Evan Lysacek should have won the competition. Alas, this...
Pairs World Champs Capture Skate America
German World Champions Savchenko and Szolkowy righted the pairs skating world by winning Skate America on Saturday after scoring 116.69 in their free skate. It wasn't a perfect performance (side by side triples were off, as were spins, and they popped a throw), but it was very good and difficult...
Takahiko Kozuka Scores Skate America Upset; Americans Take 2nd and 3rd
American Johnny Weir just missed taking the Skate America crown, but Japan's Takahiko Kozuka scored the upset on his technical marks. Kozuka did great but I was actually surprised that he won. After falling on his first quad toe, he landed all the rest of his jumps, along with a three jump...
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