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Welcome to the Rocker skating podcast.
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This is Part 2 of our World Championships recap.
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We had so much to talk about in Part 1, including the winner of
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the March Gladness Costume of the Year, so go back and take a
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listen to that. In the meantime, we're going to
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finish talking about the whirlwind that was the final
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competition of the year, the World Figure Skating
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Championships. Let's talk about the women and
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go backwards in time. What happens with the women?
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What happened, Michelle? Oh my gosh, well you know you
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were you talked so much about 2018 worlds and how Alina just
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could not hold it together for one more competition.
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And I feel like that first year senior Itis Olympic crap post
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Olympic crash came from me because I mean she skated
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respectively but she didn't skate up to her abilities and
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was in a surprising 9th place overall.
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But Monet Chiba on the other hand, really turned it around
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after her Olympic disappointment and just laid down to amazing
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programs. I mean, I I might have had her
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first in the short program, but I was really happy to see her
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skate that that well. She she was, she was as she was
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as good as she has been. Yeah.
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Maybe. Ever.
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Yeah, the short program was just.
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It was such a different skater than we saw in 4 continents at
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the Olympics. Like the this was one of those
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where the pressures of it all really changed the whole vibe
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for her. We've talked about it in in the
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podcast. She's one of those people where
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if she is stressed out, you see it all over her.
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Face. Yeah, yeah.
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And and you didn't see that here.
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You did not see that here at all.
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And AMI, I, I keep saying this like for those of them, for
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those of you who who follow my practice notes, AMI Nakai really
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is like 15 to 20% on her triple axels in practice.
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Yeah, the music comes on and she hits it and that's it exactly.
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And she misses it all. Like what she did in the short?
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Here is what she does in practice like 80% of the time.
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Exactly. Yeah, she does like in, in
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practice, what she does is she does a lot of timers, a lot of
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like drills of single axles to two feet that that helps her get
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the right snap, the right center of balance.
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And she will then she'll do a few of those and then she'll go
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up and, and, and try for the triple Axel.
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And the thing in practice is she doesn't commit to the rotation
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of the triple Axel very often. So she will pop it a lot and
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she'll she'll pop it and do like 2 rotations or 2 1/2 rotations.
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And, and like Michelle said that that pop that she she did in the
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short program where she went 2 1/2 rotations and did a double
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Axel and landed on 2 feet. That was kind of muscle memory
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for her because that that is what happens.
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If she's just a little bit off and she doesn't commit to
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pulling into that jump, she will absolutely pop out of it.
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And, and the same thing in in the freeze case, she went 2 1/2,
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almost 3 and and, and bailed out of it.
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And the, the ones that she did at the Olympics were the ones
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where it was like she, she, she got the right take off and she
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she held it in. It's it's, it's rare for her to
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rotate the triple Axel and fall because when she does rotate it,
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it's usually because it's in the right axis and and she and she
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feels it correctly. So.
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But she did win best newcomer. Yeah, for.
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For the ISU awards, I mean, I think I.
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Voted for her for that, Yeah. I don't remember who else was
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nominated. I, I, I, I don't, I don't know
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if there's anybody else who is more worthy, I mean.
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No. To, to be, to, to have beaten
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Kaori Sakamoto. Yeah, she had.
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It in the fall I mean. Yeah, yeah.
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And yeah, and and and then getting the Olympics bronze
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medal, like, yeah, you know, she I'm sure she's disappointed that
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she didn't skate as well here, but she's a freaking Olympic
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medalist. So yeah, that's that's how you
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go. But Speaking of Kaori Sakamoto,
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she. Was so good.
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It was so good. It was so emotional.
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And I was like, so nervous in the second-half of her program.
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I was like, Oh my gosh, you know?
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But she hit those combos beautifully.
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And yeah, I was happy for her to finish, finish her career that
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way on such a high. I just, it's just, it's hard
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because I really wish he could have done it a couple weeks ago.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. We talked about, we talked about
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how this was, this was a dream ending.
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But really, the dream ending should have come in Milan.
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But without what happened in Milan, this wouldn't have
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happened in Prague. I mean, you know, I, I, I'm, I,
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what I'm happy about is even if that didn't happen at the
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Olympics, that it did happen somewhere.
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And that she can close out her career feeling like she left it
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all out there on the ice. You know, I, I, I, I was crying
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at Japanese nationals. I was crying at the Olympics for
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no, for a very different reasons.
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And then here it was. It was.
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Yeah. Yeah, ugly crying all over the
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place. Yeah.
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In a nosebleeds. I was crying in my car in
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Venice. I pulled over to watch this on
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my phone. Yeah, yeah.
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I did, really. Yelling at the phone in this
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last group and then I got really emotional for the last two, so
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yeah. And what a.
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Great. Event I could have I could have
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like guessed 10 different times and I would not have picked Nina
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Pinzerone as the surprise bronze medalist with no rotation calls.
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I mean over 1500 people did did prediction central on on rocker
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skating live and one person picked Nina Pinzerone for 3rd.
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Wow, OK, you're there in person. How did her jump rotations look
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to you? So in the short, I thought the
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combo should have been called it was It was reviewed.
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The short 1 was reviewed in the free I thought the combo should
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have been reviewed. It was not reviewed.
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But everything else was clean. Like I that's that's what I saw.
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She was as clean as she has been in a long time.
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But I was very surprised at that combo did not no, no, no, no,
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no, no, no. In the short, it did not get
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reviewed in the free it did get reviewed and it and it and it
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didn't get a call. And and I, I remember being
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like, what do you mean I didn't get a call?
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Yeah. Either either way though, it
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call or not, she deserved that bronze medal.
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OK, I mean, yeah, I mean, she skated really well, especially
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like, you know, considering the rest of her season.
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But it was wild. The like, I know, but yeah, so
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I, I feel for Isabel. This is I think the third time
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she's been 4th at Worlds. Third time or second time last
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year she was she was fourth. And she was fourth, I think once
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before that. Yeah, 4244 that she's been world
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pewter medalist, something that does not exist.
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That's rough. Yeah, it was very.
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I thought it was very impressive that she went for the Lutz loop
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Brave, but she looked like she was going just glacially slowly
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into her jumps in the program, especially that opening combo.
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And I don't know if that was nerves or or what, but.
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I, I'll, I will say it that Lutz loop is a better combo for her
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than the the flip toe like it, it, it's aesthetically a better
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combo. It is rotationally, frankly, a
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better combo for her and and in practice and in warm up.
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The amount of hesitation that she has or the amount of time
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she takes between the Lutz landing and the loot take off is
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a lot less than the the two times that she did it in
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competition. In the short, yeah, it's she
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slows down, but then she also will ride that outside edge on
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the landing a lot, just a lot longer.
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And by a lot longer, I mean like a very split second longer to
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the point where you notice it like the the we've seen other
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Lutz loops, right? Like, you know, Ioki's let's
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loop and Mickey Ando's let's loop and Truseva Truseva's Yeah,
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let's loops. She would.
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Barely touch the ice in between, yeah.
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They literally just like bounce up, bounce down.
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It's a it's very Pogo stick. We talked about this in in the
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on the first day and and Isabel's isn't quite like that,
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but it it she usually does do it's a it's a very natural sort
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of like RIP up to the to the triple loop in the short
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program. You saw it hesitate a little
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bit, but she got the rotation and it was fine in the free
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skate. It was just that much longer of
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a split second that that it just she lost all the momentum that
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she would she had to get that loop up.
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So it's very tough. And then Amber third in the
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short and that free skate. I just it's it's it's really
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frustrating because she can start so strong and then sort of
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come unglued and, you know, she's done so much work on the
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mental side and you just want it for her so much.
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But you know, she, you know, after, after that performance,
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she seemed like she was sort of at peace with what had happened.
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Like she had sort of accepted it and like was overall happy with
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how the season had gone and wasn't like leaving on bad
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terms, like unfinished business. But like, as a viewer, it was
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killing me because I was just like, I really, I really thought
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like I never, it was right there because I just can't trust her.
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But it was like right there. It was right.
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There, put her on my podium. It was right there and, and, and
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she hit the triple Axel, she hit the flip toe, she hit the Lutz
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toe it. Was beautiful the.
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First three were so good. Yeah.
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And then there it went. It's.
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Just crazy how mental skating can be because most people would
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give anything to have Amber's talent and her jump technique
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and her ease of doing it and the fact she can't put it together
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mentally under pressure is just, it's so frustrating.
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And I mean, it's just must be even more frustrating for her.
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Absolutely. I mean he jumps so easily.
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The the, the, the thing that that just kills you is that you
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watch her practice. She never pops anything.
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No. Like the entire week of practice
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maybe? I see I saw her pop 2 jumps.
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Yeah. That's outside the axle.
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But like these are her favorite jumps.
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The flip and the loop are her favorite jumps and that's why
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she has it in the back half. She can do them with her phone
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in her hand. I know, I know it's just, I and
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she said, she said she got lost in that second-half and you
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could see it. And, and I've made this
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reference before on, on the show.
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It's so reminds me of Nicole Bobeck 1995 at worlds where it
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was just this like beautiful booming start to her free skate.
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And then that second-half just unravels and, and it's it, it's
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this, it's just the same where you're thinking too much or
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you're not, you're not in the right state of mind or whatever.
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And and it affects her so much more.
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OK, someone, this girl tweeted VM stage mom.
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If you follow her on Twitter, she said Nicole Bobeck left her
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in a basket at a Firehouse. And I feel like that is that
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sums it up. You know, Nicole Bobeck had a
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had a had a world bronze medal that year.
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She did. She did.
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It's. Just it's a different kind of
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time now. Yeah, I yeah, but but our our
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our fave Shagnaki 5th place at worlds.
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That's amazing for her. That's awesome.
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Sharknaki the the she she finally skated that free skate
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almost to the potentials. I think she, you know, she had a
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couple of queues, but it was it was very well received.
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Her short was good, her free was good.
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She was finally putting it out there and I, I hope, I hope she
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continues. And Italy gets 2 spots.
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And Italy gets 2 spots finally. Yeah.
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It's been a while this, you know, Lara Naki Gutman has come
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a long ways the last Four Seasons.
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She went from not being able to qualify for a spot at the
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Olympics in 2022. First alternate.
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To top five at worlds here and to, you know, for real being the
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best women's skater from Italy since Carolina Costner like.
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She was the first alternate and wasn't Emmy Zingis the second?
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I think so, yeah. Yeah.
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That's wow, that's pretty. Cool.
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Did Wait, No. Did she try?
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Actually, yeah. I thought I thought it was.
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Wasn't. I thought it was Keetramil.
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No, they sent Keetramil is 1 Autumn Classic, and then they
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sent Zingis to Neville Horn and we were very confused about it
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because it was like this girl just won this competition.
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But yeah, so I don't know. Who are the two alternates this
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year? We'll be talking about them in
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four years. Who were the alternates?
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Stefania Yakovleva and I forgot who the other one was.
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Well, Stefania Yakovleva Cypress so.
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Yeah, another, another. On the dance podium, the 20th.
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Another. Another Cyprian.
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Yeah. Wow, yeah, what a crazy, what a
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crazy few years. But but yeah, Lara Naki Goodman.
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Well done to shark Naki. So for the women, oh, oh, I'm
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not going to not talk about how Jia Shin was fourth in the free
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skate. I'm glad she finally figured it
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out, even if it took her all season to like get performances
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out like that in major international events.
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But then she didn't that that short program, that short
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program again was an issue with her, you know?
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What's going to happen is she's going to be, she's going to have
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it figured out. She's going to be great all next
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season and she's going to have to deal with Mao Shimada again.
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They're going to be 1/2 at worlds next year.
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Oh my God, that's crazy. Nina Petrokina ends up 7th.
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She she wasn't as sharp as she was at the Olympics or at
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Europeans, but it was, it was, you know, it was great to see
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her continue to be doing what she's doing in practices.
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She was doing, she was trying triple axels.
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She was trying quad toes. Whoa, nice.
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And she landed 1 quad toe that was under.
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Oh good. Well, on 2 on like 2 feet, but
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it was it was close. It was close, yeah.
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So that was interesting to watch.
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And you know, Hay and Lee was landing triple axels in, in
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practice, unfortunately just not anywhere near what she has the
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potential to do and ends up outside the top 10.
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But that was that was your women's event.
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Japan gets 3 spots, the US gets 3 spots.
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So those are your those are your three spot quotas for next year
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for the women. Belgium keeps their two spots,
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which was a question mark coming in given that it was it was
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really Nina Pinzarone having to kind of shoulder the the the
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responsibility given that Luna Hendricks was in here and Yada
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Hovine, who's who is a law student was it was.
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Oh my God. So excited to, yeah, so excited
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to be here. But also she is a law student
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trying to also be an elite figure skater.
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So. So Belgium keeps their two
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spots, Italy, as we said, two spots.
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Estonia keeps their two spots, South Korea keeps their two
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spots and Georgia has two spots, which means when Inga Gurkinitze
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comes up to senior, yes, she will also get a spot.
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I don't know if I don't know if Kubanova's sticking around, but
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if she does we got 2 spots. For Georgia, yeah.
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Shall we go to pairs? Mm hmm.
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Oh yeah. Oh, pairs.
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I think we both expected this to happen, did we?
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No. You expected Pavlova's
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Fiacchenko to win. No.
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I said I, I said hasa volden I but you?
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Said Pavlova's second. Yeah, I did.
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I. Did and we both agreed they were
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going to have two awesome skates.
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Like what? Happened.
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That that is the post Olympic world's weirdness.
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But it was not on a team I expected it from, right?
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You know, like there, there was some tired skating there.
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That's it's very like for, for real.
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There were people who were just like, I am so done.
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And, and I think Pavlovos Fiachenko was absolutely one of
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them. Metalkina Berrulovo was also
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another one of them. And you know, it's, it was,
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yeah, it was, it was, it was, it was.
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It was tough to watch for Pavlovos Fiachenko because they
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had such a. Such a chance at the podium,
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this. Year I had the Hungary Hungarian
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stat ready and everything. We were ready to go.
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Yeah. They will be world medalists.
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Maybe not this year I don't, but next year or the year after, at
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some point I. I don't doubt it, but you know
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who did get the bronze? Yeah.
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Pretty sure. They were so good they.
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Were so good. That short program is so
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freaking good. Their free skate was great too.
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Yep, they they just they just had such AI mean I when I
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interviewed. Them I might have had them in
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second here honestly. I would have, I totally would
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have. But the problem, the problem
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with them was it's the same thing that that I was asking
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about at the Olympics. They don't have a three jump
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combo at the free skate, so they they give away a lot of points
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by not putting that that second double Axel in there.
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Well now, now we we don't have it anymore because the pairs
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won't be doing that anymore. Thank God.
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Thank God with the new rules, but they actually do a good one.
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Like they, they're really strong single skaters and, and their
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triple toe double Axel, double Axel is really nice.
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But they, they've been, they were doing that at the Olympics.
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They played it, they played it safe with the with the triple
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toe double Axel and stopped at that.
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And they did not add it for for the World Championships.
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And had they added it for the World Championships, that would
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have been three to four points. That would have absolutely been
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silver. Yeah, but I agree.
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I I thought they should have been silver as well.
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The George team, some of their elements are sensational and
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then some of their other elements are not.
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And I feel like their lifts and some of their choreographic
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stuff, they just get these huge GOES and it's like give them
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huge GOES on their clean throws and their solo jumps.
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For sure. The lift should not have those
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high GOESI mean, yes, they have ice coverage.
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Her position is good, but somewhere in there it should be.
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It should come down a little bit, just a little bit.
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It really the the lifts are one of those things where from the
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nosebleeds where I was sitting. Oh God.
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You really saw the difference with like I agree with you on
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the footwork and the way that he somebody, somebody who really
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knows pairs was telling me the way that he leads her on the
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lift is not good technique like she should be doing.
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She should be doing more of the leading given that she's the one
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who's up there. But but anyway, I I don't know
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the technicalities of that, but those two things should
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absolutely be making a dent in their grades of execution.
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But the fact of the matter is they get some of the biggest ice
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coverage on those lifts. And and as a as a judge, you it
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it, yeah, you kind of get swept up by the fact that they cover
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so much ice on it. And and like, not in a pretty
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way with his footwork. Yeah.
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I think we need lifts that work to be part of the GOE criteria
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more in a more articulated way. Yeah, but yeah, you know, Hassa
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Volodin. Yeah.
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They they finally did it. Yeah, yeah.
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And Alia Sapchenko was there to see it.
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First world title for Germany since her and Bruno in 2018.
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You know the, the, the history of pair skating in Germany has
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been very rich and then you know, Kosovoloden now continue
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it. Haka Kunkel did a good job here
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as well. They were 7th and.
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Yeah. And and the headbanger at the
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end. The Headbanger.
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Was awesome. I was going to say, like I spent
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three weeks of this year watching them practice every day
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and it's like I saw them, but watching them on TV, for some
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reason it really stood out to me how beautiful their posture is.
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Like so much better than anybody.
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I mean, they are just just straightest backs in the Paris
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event. Beautiful.
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And the and those lifts I mean not not lifts the the the throws
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are when. Gorgeous.
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When Minerva hits those throws, they're just like they not only
25:01
have the the great carriage and stuff, but like she just flies.
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You're you're talking about Haka Kukul.
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Yeah, yeah. But also, yes.
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Also yes to the throws from Haka Kukul.
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All of that. Yeah.
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Yeah. I I thought Hassa Volden
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probably could not have done that free skate much better than
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that. Like even with the the error on
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the sales again, it it was it was as good as that program can
25:35
get in terms of the the artistic side of.
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It I still can. I still can.
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I still can with that program we.
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Felt like such a downer to end unexciting event on to.
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I mean, you know, them getting their scores and everything was
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exciting, but that when that music started, it was like, oh,
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here we go again. I just, you know, please, just I
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don't know, maybe maybe a different choreographer next
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season. That would be great.
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I mean, Mark Palais has done a lot of good work for them.
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You know, like their, their short program is, is a Mark
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Polay program. It's like, it's, it's a very
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good like it, it, it's dynamic, it it works out very well.
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But you know what was exciting? Nakaoka Morikuchi.
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Wow. That was out of this world.
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They were so good. It was like, yes, yes, you know.
26:29
And you know what? You've been teasing this all
26:31
year. You like they could be world
26:32
medalist. I know.
26:33
And they almost were. They were so close.
26:37
It just goes to show the kind of potential that they have.
26:41
It really we knew that it was they we knew that they were good
26:48
and and we know that there's they're still pretty new and
26:52
there's a lot that they can improve on in their pairing.
26:55
There's a lot that they can improve on a lot of things, but
26:59
they've got such a great foundation and and it's it's
27:05
it's great to see them be able to do what they did here.
27:08
And for them to have had the disappointment at the Olympics
27:12
of not making it into the free skate and then coming here and
27:16
getting 4th and getting getting third in the free skate in the
27:21
world. Small medal like that's really.
27:24
Great. Yeah.
27:26
I love their skating. It's, it's just, it's, it's,
27:29
it's so beautifully done. Efimova, Mitrofanov continue to
27:35
show that they are absolutely the the ones you can count on,
27:41
Really. Well, that short program was not
27:46
what I expected from them. They they were better, stronger
27:49
in the free skate. But yeah.
27:53
Hand down, hand down on the throw.
27:55
I mean, I like with with Elisa with and her and her solo jumps.
28:02
You're always kind of like holding your breath for it.
28:04
So did. You did you know that ETA
28:07
Karhunen's coach is her mom? I didn't.
28:11
Realize is FEMA's mom. Yes, I didn't realize that until
28:14
Mark said it on the World Feed I.
28:16
Had no idea. I know me either.
28:21
I'm just like, that's one other reason we could have talked
28:23
about her wanting to be at the Olympic.
28:24
I don't know. Her mom's going to be there.
28:26
Mom got to go and she didn't. Well, Alyssa, a few of us can
28:31
can go to Worlds next year in Finland.
28:34
Yeah, that's true. So that that's.
28:37
Yeah. Her home country or her native
28:43
born country. So it was, it was a, it was a
28:49
good event, I thought with the pairs at the the the one real
28:54
downer was Chan and Howe and how they they ended their season,
28:59
especially after such a phenomenal Olympics for them.
29:03
Yeah, and a good short program here.
29:05
And a good short program and that that those falls on that
29:11
free skate were just. Like, yeah.
29:15
I don't know how her shoulder survived those falls, it was
29:18
just so. Crazy.
29:20
Rough. Yeah.
29:23
I was excited that we got like China and Armenia and
29:26
Switzerland in the top 10. So all of those countries are
29:30
going to have two spots next year, which is like good for
29:32
them. I mean, Armenia, Ari Zakarian's
29:37
going to be busy like finding some Armenian pairs this summer.
29:40
He's he's going to find one. They're not going to let that
29:42
spot go like Georgia does. Ari Zakarian is going to come
29:45
back himself and start skating again so that they can that they
29:48
can fill that second spot for the pairs.
29:52
But isn't it weird for us to say China finally gets a second spot
29:56
again? China used to be the one of the
29:59
ones that had always 3 in any combination.
30:01
You can take their second and third place teams.
30:03
You get 3 spots. Yeah, yeah.
30:06
So and we we know they have a good pipeline in the juniors
30:11
finally again. So so the that's and Wenjing
30:16
sway will be selling her coffee in her mobile home.
30:20
Let's go. And she just got elected to the
30:24
Athletes Council for pairs, so. She's going to show up in her
30:27
her caravan with her meerkat to their meetings.
30:32
Yes, yes, yes. OK.
30:34
So Germany three spots for next year, Georgia 3 spots for next
30:40
year. Where are the Georgian pairs?
30:44
There are none. Go shopping.
30:47
Come. On Canada keeps their two spots,
30:51
Japan keeps their two spots, Hungary gets 2 spots, United
30:55
States gets 2 spots. So they lose a spot.
31:03
I'm going to say something controversial and UN American.
31:07
Yes, I think Mcbeth and Parkman should be skating for Georgia.
31:13
It's not like it's hard to get citizenship and you know.
31:16
Probably would have been easier. Yeah, they could have gone to
31:19
the Olympics. I mean, yeah, yeah.
31:23
Anyway. For those of you who don't know,
31:27
Daniel Parkman skated for Georgia with Anastasia
31:33
Metalkina. Yeah.
31:35
For a few years as a junior. So Armenia, as we said, Armenia,
31:41
China, Switzerland all get 2 spots.
31:43
So those were the quotas for next year.
31:48
Mm Hmm. All right men.
31:49
Oh. Boy.
31:51
There was a lack of menning in men.
31:56
I was going to say the menning started in the shore program.
31:58
Well, just that one. Kevin. 05.
32:05
There were more. Kevin did a little Nika little
32:07
bit of mening. There were more.
32:09
Cow was mening Cow. Yeah, poor cow.
32:13
Yeah. Cal Miura did not qualify for
32:16
the free skate. Honestly, I feel like, Oh yeah,
32:20
cow is I feel like Adam Siaowen finishing second and Solevko
32:28
finishing third in the short program.
32:30
Those skates, well that was like pre menning because you knew the
32:35
menning was like that was like well we're going to have a big
32:38
spread if we're going to be second at these guys are going
32:40
to be second and third after the shore program.
32:42
Touché, touché. I don't know.
32:46
I was more reacting to the fact that like the last four, the
32:49
last four free skates that we saw at the Olympics were a shit
32:54
show. And it was not like we ended
32:58
that free skate in in a rough spot and and we did not hear it
33:04
was it was very nice that we did not.
33:08
But yes, agreed like that. That short program had some
33:11
surprises, one of which was Yuma Kagiyama's wax soul after having
33:19
a. The short program was fantastic
33:21
for him right up until he tried to go up for the axle and he
33:26
completely. This was like Mao Asada 22,008.
33:30
Yeah, I'd buy into the conspiracy theory that he caught
33:33
a deep edge, a rut. I saw a close up of his foot and
33:36
I was like, he did. He did, yeah.
33:40
Yeah, oh, so sad with that. But you know what though?
33:46
That free skate. Oh my.
33:48
Gosh. Human dough.
33:49
Legendary. That was incredible.
33:52
That was everything we wanted and more.
33:54
Yeah. I mean, you know, it was, it's
33:57
the same thing I said with Calorie, right?
33:59
Like disappointment. Aside from the Olympics, at
34:03
least we finally got that showing.
34:06
I mean, Calorie has been skating the program fine all season.
34:09
But like Yuma Yuma, it's been so hard for him to put down a good
34:14
clean free skate. And it finally got finally got
34:19
there. Yeah.
34:22
And he was just so much more open and.
34:25
His He was so excited. Yeah, yeah.
34:29
So good. Like he really, he really does
34:34
when he is clean. His body language is so
34:38
different on, on these the, you know, the presentation mark goes
34:43
from an 8.75 to a 9.75 kind of different to an 11 to an 11.
34:52
It, it was, it was really, really just beautifully done
34:55
and, and what a way for him to finish his season.
35:00
And, you know, we don't know if he's going to continue the next
35:03
four years. And what was interesting though,
35:08
was in the press conference and afterwards when he was talking
35:14
to Japanese media, there was a lot of pushback from all three
35:21
of of the medalists. I'm talking about Ilia.
35:23
I'm talking about Yuma. I'm talking about Shun, about
35:28
the potential changes, like the, the drastic changes.
35:31
I'm not talking about like the little changes, the the like
35:35
potential proposed changes to how the ISU does figure skating.
35:43
Yuma was literally like, like this is this is both interpreted
35:50
on the spot. And I also made sure that I got
35:53
the right wording for it afterwards because I don't want
35:55
to misquote him. But he was basically like the
35:59
way that that we're skating right now, the way that figure
36:03
skating is right now, we don't want it to change.
36:07
We don't want to change it that much if we're if if it's going
36:09
to change. Yeah.
36:10
Like the ISU should be working on other stuff.
36:13
They have other stuff that they should be working on, like music
36:16
rights, like, oh, wow. You know, like.
36:19
I was thinking saving the rhythm dance from the nightmare it's
36:22
become but. Like he was basically saying
36:25
like, don't change this, it's working.
36:28
Yeah, there are other things that you should be working on
36:30
ISU. And then Ilya after that was
36:34
like, yeah, you know, like the ISU, you guys need us more than
36:40
we need you, which was very like a very interesting the the two
36:44
top guys being very defiant about the changes in the
36:50
potential changes in the rules. Again, we know that there are
36:54
certain things that they're going to change already those
36:56
have been ratified for for a couple of years now.
37:00
And the things that we have been hearing about the potential
37:05
proposals of the, you know, eliminating a program or making
37:14
an artistic program or whatever, like we're, we're not.
37:17
Every other week. Yeah, or what all all of these
37:20
things, they're literally like the athletes are saying, don't
37:25
mess with what we have right now.
37:27
Let us continue to improve on what we have right now.
37:30
Don't make those drastic changes.
37:35
It was really interesting to hear that.
37:39
Yeah, it's interesting to the ISU has put so much effort into
37:44
building Ilya up like he's a God.
37:46
I mean, the promo of him around this event was crazy.
37:50
I mean, and then you had Thomas Verner asking him, like, are you
37:52
the greatest of the 21st century?
37:54
And then Italy, unfortunately, being like, yeah, oh, yeah,
37:58
yeah, he said. It's really clear you're like,
37:59
the greatest skater of the 20th century, 21st century.
38:02
Do you think you are? And Ilia was like, yeah, I do.
38:06
That part was a great but like. So, so wait, so are we?
38:09
Are we forgetting about Yuzu and Nathan Chen?
38:13
Evgeny Blushenko has four Olympic.
38:15
Mats and OK Blushenko. He had them on this weekend and
38:18
Nafka's show. I saw a picture of him.
38:20
He had all four of them on. I know, I mean, you know, I
38:24
mean, I feel like there are people in this competition that
38:26
would get that title before Ilia would like anyway, but still
38:29
like that. I felt like there was this and
38:31
then the advertising and that picture of Ilia and his coat in
38:34
Prague that was like, not that was like photoshopped together
38:37
to promote the event. Like they are building him up to
38:39
be the superhero and yet bringing up these ideas of
38:43
changing the sport in a way that would really like,
38:45
disenfranchise him, like take away what makes him so great.
38:48
I mean. You know nothing is confusing.
38:51
You know, the, the, the, the marketing and social media teams
38:55
are very different than the, the technical pan or whatever
38:59
technical groups and stuff, right?
39:01
Like. We need someone at the top with
39:02
some oversight. I don't want to do it but some.
39:06
Of them are talking to do it. None of them are talking to each
39:08
other on that. But yeah, agreed.
39:10
Like the the, the gist of, and Shin Sato was also part of this
39:16
conversation. And he also was like, he was
39:20
like the, the gist of the what the three guys were saying in
39:24
the press conference and afterwards was like, look, look
39:27
around us. We have sold out crowds
39:31
everywhere over the past few years in at, at at the biggest
39:36
events. It's not they're, it's not sold
39:40
out because we're doing everything wrong.
39:43
And you need to, you need, you need to like basically change
39:46
the whole thing like that. That was, that was, that was
39:52
the, the thing that, that, that was so interesting about what
39:56
they were they were saying and, and the fact that they were so
39:58
vocal about it. And it's, it's time.
40:01
It really is time. Like the athletes need to have
40:03
their voices heard here before Congress goes into session in a
40:09
couple months for them to be voting on whatever these
40:12
proposals may or may not be, because we don't know yet.
40:15
We still don't know what the actual proposals are going to be
40:18
because they haven't been put on paper.
40:20
Yeah, interesting. Yeah.
40:23
Ilya, though, what a, what a fantastic comeback.
40:27
And he really, he really turned a new leaf for this week.
40:33
And I think the last couple of weeks he's turned a new leaf.
40:37
Like the, the way that he approached worlds, the way that
40:41
he was really like focused on his training and he, you know,
40:45
he didn't do as many media things.
40:48
He was very much like, Hey, I'm, I'm, I'm doing this like I, I
40:54
need to focus on world. And there was one practice, I
40:58
think maybe it was on Wednesday or Thursday, where I have not
41:04
seen him be as locked in as he was in that practice.
41:10
I in a very long time. It was just like, he was so
41:13
clinical in what he was doing. He was so calm and like
41:18
everything was just pristine. It was beautifully done in, in,
41:22
in that practice. And it was really then that I
41:25
was like, OK, we're not going to see that Olympics Ilia this time
41:31
around. Well, I mean, not at worlds, I
41:34
mean at the Olympic pressure though, is is different.
41:36
I mean, I didn't think we were going to see it here, but.
41:41
I was still not really sure if I was.
41:42
Being honest with you, I mean, I think his free skate was, it
41:47
was, you know, he really delivered it confidently and I
41:50
think it was, it was a great step for him.
41:53
I am wondering though, like I felt like his jumps in it, just
41:58
the landings, I felt like they didn't have the like cleanliness
42:02
that we're used to seeing from him.
42:04
And I wondered what you thought seeing that in in real time.
42:08
Yeah, I mean, so I I scored that program on
42:12
live.rockerskating.com and and when I scored it, I gave it a
42:18
211 and he got a 218 or something.
42:22
And one of the big differences was the GOES for, for a lot of
42:26
those jumps, like they were landed and most of them were
42:31
clean. I think there were a couple of
42:32
them that they could have reviewed and they didn't.
42:37
They were landed, but they were not they were not as strong as
42:43
as they could have been. Like the quad toe, triple toe
42:45
was fine, right? The opening flip was a little
42:49
scratchy. The Lutz, the solo Lutz was a
42:52
little scratchy. The triple flip, he sort of
42:56
like, you know, was a little open on his hip and and held on
43:00
to like some some of those jumps were like, did they deserve twos
43:06
and threes? Yes.
43:07
Did they deserve threes, fours and fives?
43:09
No. Yeah.
43:10
I. Mean that.
43:11
Opening quad flip, there was like a little spray of snow on
43:14
the landing. There was.
43:15
Yeah, there was. It was.
43:16
Very telling. But it was interesting from from
43:19
my perspective, the nosebleeds perspective that that quad flip
43:24
looked clean. It just looked like he was, he
43:27
was a little bit over over the toe pick on it, which is where
43:31
the, the snow flew up. But I have to see where I, like
43:37
I said, I have not had a chance to watch anything.
43:39
So, so I have to take a look at that.
43:42
But but agreed. I, I, I, I thought, I thought
43:45
that the, the grades of execution were maybe a little
43:48
bit generous. It was the same thing with Yuma,
43:51
if I'm being honest with you, like Yuma is there were, you
43:55
know, the, what was it? The the, the, the triple flip
44:00
triple loop could have gotten lower GOES the the triple Axel
44:07
double Axel could have gotten lower GOES like like both of
44:11
them had jumps where they were overscored on the grades of
44:17
execution of it all. And I'm just like, like, like, I
44:21
know they landed at judges, but. You're getting carried away.
44:27
Yeah. Like you're not reviewing the
44:29
actual. Element they shouldn't be
44:30
getting those kinds of of of things.
44:34
I think there were people who were asking me also like why did
44:37
Yuma's last triple Axel not get higher?
44:41
GOESI thought it was actually scored correctly.
44:44
His last triple Axel in in the Turndo program is actually very
44:49
slow. He comes out of the the triple
44:53
flip, triple loop and he actually doesn't have enough
44:56
time to build up the speed that he usually does into the into a,
45:00
into a triple Axel. And and it's it, it, it never is
45:04
that fast of a jump And it, it's not a + 4 kind of jump.
45:08
It's like a + 2 or plus three kind.
45:10
Of jump like planned that way. It planned that way.
45:13
Yeah. Because it's it, it just it the
45:15
pattern just isn't there for it. Yeah.
45:18
So, yeah, I, I agree. I agree with you on that.
45:23
But the the, the standings were correct, obviously.
45:26
And and you know, Ilya gets his third world title.
45:31
Yuma gets his 97th silver medal. Yeah.
45:38
Silver medal king. Yeah, yeah.
45:41
It just, it was just hilarious because every time Ashley
45:44
introduced him, it was like, and here's the here's the reigning
45:50
silver medalist and the Olympics individual silver medalist and
45:55
the Olympic team silver medalist and the and the five time blah,
46:01
blah, blah silver medalist. Yeah, so.
46:04
It's I was like, how many times did you have to say silver?
46:08
Ashley? He will always be famous for
46:12
being a silver medalist. Yeah, the the jump GOE thing, I
46:18
feel like when Go to points was designed and it's like the the
46:22
idea was the way it's written is that everyone is judged fairly
46:25
just on the element, the elements just judged by itself.
46:27
And I really feel the last couple seasons we've gotten away
46:30
from that and we're starting to do sort of a six point O type of
46:33
thing, like, oh, this is this is the best skater, so he's going
46:36
to get extra GOE on everything. I think we saw that in Ilya's
46:39
short program when he got a perfect score in his step
46:41
sequence, which was like, come on.
46:45
And I people were pointing it out in dance and I really feel
46:48
like it's true. Hana Lim and Yaquan on their
46:53
lifts, they're getting like twos and threes on them and those
46:56
lifts are extraordinary. And I'm like that, that you
47:02
don't give that first group of the free dance GOE like you give
47:06
it GOE based on how good it is. Yeah, which is so interesting
47:10
about which is actually going back to Hannah Lemon Yequan's
47:13
lifts. It's so interesting that he
47:15
doesn't that they they their free dance lifts are so good,
47:20
but their rhythm dance lift is so labored.
47:25
Yeah, maybe it goes to the passion and the creation of the
47:29
element because yeah, their free dance is special to them.
47:33
It's similarly to Smart and Deek, right?
47:36
Like their rhythm dance lift is like, OK, like, yeah, nice
47:41
straight line lifts or light nice curve lift, but it's like,
47:45
it's not the kind of creativity that you see in the free dance
47:47
anyway. You have a lot.
47:48
More to do in the rhythm dance too.
47:50
So I feel like you have other elements and you don't get to do
47:52
the big setup and everything and I don't know, maybe you're
47:54
tired, I don't know. No, but but to your pure point
47:58
about the GOESI was seeing the same things when I was live
48:02
scoring, especially the men. Like there were skaters earlier
48:08
on in in the in the groups where I was like, yeah, that like you
48:14
Dong Chen, for example, his quad sound triple toe should have
48:19
gotten plus threes and stuff. And they were probably getting
48:22
plus ones and plus twos and and there there were many times when
48:27
you would see some of the earlier skaters do really,
48:31
really strong stuff. Yeah, the GOES come in and
48:35
you're like, wow. What?
48:36
Yeah. But I, I totally agree with you.
48:39
I. Don't know what the solution is,
48:41
but it's like I, I feel like they're not doing it correctly.
48:44
And how do you, how do you address that?
48:46
I think they have to be aggressive about confronting it.
48:50
Yeah. I just don't know why you would
48:52
think about saving room for an element, right?
48:58
Yeah, two things can be true. Ilya Molinen and Yuma Kagiyama
49:03
can be the best overall skaters in the in the event, right?
49:09
And somebody who finishes 23rd can have just as good of a step
49:15
sequence as they have. Or, you know, whatever it is.
49:18
Or better. Yeah, or.
49:20
Better. I think that's, that's the,
49:24
that's the cognitive dissonance of this whole thing is that I
49:28
think when you are confronted with a whole bunch of skaters
49:34
and you're like, there's still 20 more skaters in front.
49:37
So like, they can't be possibly as good as this and that.
49:41
That doesn't make any sense. It's an old system mindset and I
49:44
think you can't just let it continue.
49:46
You have to kind of address it aggressively when it's happening
49:49
and repeatedly throughout the season with the judges so they
49:53
remember not to do that. You know, it's just been
49:57
snowballing. Yeah, Oh, God, let's keep going
50:01
on this on this, on this men's event.
50:03
Shun Sato. Oh my God, if you would have
50:07
been with me, Michelle, watching these practices.
50:10
After your tweets. Holy moly, like he looked like
50:14
he was like ready to withdraw that first, like like.
50:21
Wow. I'm, I'm being hyperbolic here,
50:24
but like he was so bad that first day of practice.
50:29
And what was also interesting was that I heard after the fact
50:33
that the morning practice on the very first day, the ice was
50:37
really bad. That's what I ended up hearing
50:40
afterwards. And then they fixed it and it
50:43
was very different. But Schun's practices, woof.
50:47
But the thing was, he got better and better during the week and
50:51
he figured it out during the week.
50:52
It was like, I think I was reading that he didn't really
51:01
like revisit his practices and his like training early enough
51:07
for worlds and he basically like improved as the practices were
51:13
happening during worlds. So gosh, I I just, I could not
51:18
believe he ended up doing what he did.
51:20
Uh huh, Shin Sato. Uh huh.
51:24
Well, good for him. And that's his first world
51:27
medal. Yeah.
51:28
An Olympic bronze and a world bronze, like, yeah, what a dream
51:32
season for him. It's.
51:33
Been and a Grand Prix Final bronze, so it's this color.
51:37
It's Metal King and then Steven Gogalov.
51:43
Mr. Consistency. Gosh, so excited to see where he
51:48
goes from here because like you and I said, he has more
51:52
difficulty in store. He has yeah, he's landed more
51:55
difficult stuff in the past when he was a junior turning senior.
51:59
And he's just his that that free skate could have been better.
52:04
Like like he he skated that better, but still like can't
52:10
take away from him what he's been able to accomplish this
52:14
season and the fact that it got better and better as the season
52:18
was going on. Yeah.
52:19
Because at the beginning, it was still like, OK, like holding our
52:24
breaths here for Stephen Gogolab.
52:26
Like yeah, is it staying or is it not?
52:29
Yeah, yeah, he's healthy, I guess.
52:31
And he's just, yeah, just step by step improving.
52:36
I mean, to be 4th here is like incredible.
52:38
I mean, Canada barely had one spot for the Olympics.
52:41
And I know. I know, yeah. 4th Canada Canada
52:46
finally gets the second spot back, Yeah.
52:49
Yeah. But poor Adam Sal Oh.
52:52
My gosh. Once again, his practices were
52:58
great. They really were.
53:01
Yeah. He just couldn't, he couldn't
53:04
put it together. He he did finally put it
53:07
together for the short program, so at least he got that much.
53:11
Yeah, this short was great, but. Short was great.
53:14
Yeah. And you know, you know what step
53:18
sequence did deserve a + 5 across the board his short
53:22
program. Oh my God, that that's that's.
53:26
It's crazy that Ilia gets the record in that same event and
53:29
Adam doesn't. Yeah, that stuff sequences.
53:31
Is the perfect score, yeah. So, so amazing.
53:36
But yeah, I it wasn't as bad as the Olympics for Adam, but it
53:40
was just, it was a little bit actually kind of like Yuma's
53:44
skate at the Olympics where it was 11 fall and a bunch of step
53:50
outs and just like couldn't keep it together.
53:55
Oh, Adam did get a perfect score.
53:56
He got one as well. Oh, he did good.
53:58
Yeah, so they they aren't true perfect scores because they each
54:02
got a one, got a four from a judge, but it gets dropped.
54:07
So yeah. So yes, oh, Adam.
54:15
But France does get the three spots.
54:17
That keeps the three spots with Adam and Kevin 5th and 7th.
54:22
Kevin Amos's Bolero was brilliant.
54:25
It was very well done. It was so good.
54:28
Yeah, I know you're not the biggest fan of that program, but
54:32
I am and I enjoyed it immensely. I, I enjoyed it at, at worlds.
54:37
I think he, I think he did a great job there.
54:39
I, I think for me, it's still the layout of that program that
54:44
I don't love, but the, the, his, his presentation of that was as
54:50
good as it's been. And and he was finally not like
54:54
struggling to hang on to jumps, which was, you know, he had that
54:58
one fall in the quantum and that was it.
55:00
Yeah, yeah. And then Sasha Sulevko.
55:07
I mean he could have been worse. His shore program was amazing.
55:10
The first game I expected much more of an implosion than we
55:13
got. I mean yeah he fought, he
55:15
fought. 6 is an amazing result for him.
55:18
And Estonia gets 2 spots for next year, so we will see Mihail
55:24
Solevko. We don't know about that.
55:28
I mean, Estonia has three. Men.
55:31
I know, yeah. Not that Arlette will get it,
55:34
but I think I think that the the battle will be there because
55:38
Arlette is getting more, he's getting more consistent.
55:40
He's got a triple Axel now, and Mihao Solevko still has problems
55:46
putting down good programs on a consistent.
55:49
Basis that vampire program this season won me over and I'm I I
55:53
believe in him. He's going to do it.
55:55
We need both celeb Bros in Finland.
56:00
Gosh, yeah, the men, there was some really good like, like we
56:07
said, the menning was limited, you know?
56:12
It was pre menning. Yeah, Jacob Sanchez doing what
56:17
he did, 12th in his first worlds.
56:20
Yeah, he was great. And Andrew, too.
56:22
Andrew Torgashev. Not as good as he was at the
56:25
Olympics, but good enough to be top 10.
56:28
I saw a mix on quote for him from him.
56:30
I was very nervous about how he was going to skate because he
56:32
talked about how hard it was to get motivated, how he considered
56:35
withdrawing. And he just said, skating's my
56:37
job. I'm just going to make myself do
56:39
it. And I was like, oh boy.
56:40
But you know, it was very respectable the way he he skated
56:44
here and to be 10th was is awesome.
56:45
And for him at worlds, that's a big improvement, yeah.
56:49
And yeah, we have had the US got 2 spots with either combination
56:54
of them with Ilia. So that's awesome.
56:56
Yeah, yeah, for sure. I, I think the other two that I
57:03
wanted to to mention, Kirya Marsak is such a talent and he's
57:10
getting more consistent. He's his jumps are ginormous and
57:15
he's got really good basics. I think he's going to he's going
57:19
to be 1 to watch for the next 444 seasons.
57:23
And the consistency of Vladimir Samoilov is making me optimistic
57:31
for his future because I'm like, oh, we're finally not getting
57:35
the yo-yo Samoy love that we used to where it was like, are
57:39
you going to like pop all three of your jumps in a short program
57:43
and get a 50 like the last, you know, Olympics?
57:47
And here I feel like he's been a different skater this season.
57:53
And I really love that that's the case because he, I also love
57:58
his skating. I think he's he's got a lot of
58:00
potential. Yeah.
58:04
Yeah, so US, Japan, France all get 3 spots for worlds next
58:12
year. Canada, Estonia, Italy,
58:16
Switzerland get 2 spots. Nice.
58:22
And that was the men. Thank goodness.
58:26
Thank goodness we did not end with well, We ended with ice
58:31
dance. I loved that schedule.
58:36
I love spending Saturday late morning watching the free dance,
58:40
listening to Tanith Bellburn comment, commentate on it.
58:42
It was great. I was, I was having a good time.
58:46
Dance should always be the last event.
58:48
It's it's like the free dance is the best event.
58:51
You know, oh boy. Oh.
58:53
Boy, and then some of the the little details from the dance
58:58
meeting about next season, the programs for next season kind of
59:01
came out on Twitter and that spoiled my mood a little bit.
59:04
But, you know, yeah. Well, we will talk more about
59:09
the, the, the changes coming up for the next season, but in the
59:15
meantime, we're going to, we're going to say goodbye to this
59:23
202526 season and this 202326 Olympic quad.
59:30
We're done. And I know synchro world is
59:32
coming up and that's going to happen.
59:37
But in terms of singles, pairs and ice dance, we're done.
59:42
So that is what it is. And if you had three things from
59:53
worlds that you won't forget, what are those three things,
59:57
Michelle? Human doe.
59:59
Obviously you must free skate Monet's short program.
1:00:06
And I mean vogue rhythm dance. Oh wow.
1:00:13
I mean, I, I would say Fornia Vodrissi's around free dance as
1:00:16
well was pretty incredible. But yeah, and I'm also not going
1:00:21
to forget that weird illegal element call.
1:00:25
That's that was pretty. That was pretty interesting.
1:00:27
Speaking of, things are unforgettable.
1:00:29
Yeah, OK, Calorie free skate. Oh yeah, of course, yeah.
1:00:34
Yuma free skate. Yeah, Ilia free skate.
1:00:37
I think those are those are my 3.
1:00:38
Wow, Ilia. OK.
1:00:39
Yeah, yeah, I just, I, I, I, you know me.
1:00:43
I love a redemption story and all three of those were
1:00:48
redemption stories from the Olympics.
1:00:50
And it, it just felt it, it, it made you feel like the, the
1:00:55
season wrapped up well for these three skaters who had such
1:01:01
pressure put both on them and put on them by themselves, right
1:01:07
for this Olympic season. And so nice to see that the the
1:01:11
three of them ended the way that they did so.
1:01:17
Yeah. Well, that's it for this I I
1:01:23
don't want to I don't want to stop podcasting here because
1:01:27
they're so like, oh, I'm, I'm missing the season already, but
1:01:31
we all need our. Breaks podcast about something
1:01:33
else for a little bit. I need a skating I need a
1:01:36
skating break. CDE free skating break.
1:01:40
Oh, I'm, I'm not going to talk about the CDE yet.
1:01:44
Speaking of new, new, new ice dance requirements, for those of
1:01:50
you who are still listening, Performance of the Season is now
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taking nominations on live.rockerskating.com/games
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slash POTSI will put it on the homepage.
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I haven't yet, that's why I'm giving you the whole link.
1:02:10
But go and nominate your Performances of the Season and
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of. The people.
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We are we really, we really are done with this recap show.
1:02:37
I can't extend this anymore and I need to go to sleep because I
1:02:41
came back this morning and took a nap for four hours because I
1:02:46
was so tired. And I'm probably going to sleep
1:02:49
through the night. I hope I'm going to sleep
1:02:50
through the night. So Michelle, we, we, we may come
1:02:57
back on to talk about more things in the offseason,
1:03:00
including rule changes. Maybe.
1:03:03
Maybe including things, but thank you for joining me for
1:03:12
this crazy season and. Thank you for having me.
1:03:16
It's been a kind of a wild ride, a kind time.
1:03:20
This time, this time last year, I had never podcasted before in
1:03:24
my life and now I've done like 100 of them so.
1:03:29
Well, now we have, now we have. All right, Well, thank you,
1:03:33
Michelle. Thank you to you all for tuning
1:03:37
in and making the Rocker Skating Podcast what it is right now.
1:03:42
And we're going to keep growing it.
1:03:44
Rocker Skating Podcast does not end this season.
1:03:46
We're going to have more of them.
1:03:49
OK Well, for Michelle Ellis, this is Jackie Wong, chief skate
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nerd, rockerskating.com. Thanks as always to John Wilson
1:03:59
and it's many brands for their sponsorship and for keeping this
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1:04:09
for being our backbone and editing and producing us.
1:04:13
And thank you all again for listening.
1:04:17
I miss it already. And we'll we'll, we'll relive it
1:04:22
with performances of the season. So we'll talk to you again.
1:04:27
I don't know when, but soon. Bye.
1:04:30
Bye.