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Welcome to the Rocker Skating Podcast.
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We've done a lot of previews and this is our last one.
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I promise this is the last one. By the time you listen to those
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future podcast listeners, the Olympics will almost be over and
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we will have basically 1 1/2 disciplines left to go because
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this will probably go out in the middle of the pair's event.
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And the women will be the last of the five disciplines to
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happen, including team. Hi, Michelle.
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Hi, Jackie. By the time I get to this part
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of the Olympics, you're going to be laying on the floor of the
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practice, right? I mean, you've seen that before.
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You have a picture of it. I do.
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I do. Boy, oh boy, this women's event.
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This women's event is outrageous and unlike, I think I'm going to
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eat my words, maybe unlike the other disciplines.
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Well, unlike the men in the pairs where there's talent and
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there's chaos to be had, I don't see as much chaos here.
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The potential, the potential for chaos is definitely lower.
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Yeah, I think I agree. I think I agree.
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I think everyone's going to skate relatively well.
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There may be like a fall or a pop on a triple Axel here and
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there, but I don't see any cataclysmic meltdowns in the
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wind the way we might anticipate in pairs of men.
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Right exactly. Now we come into this event
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knowing that Japan is sending three women who could be on the
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podium. the US is sending three women who could be on the
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podium. The European champion just put
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up a huge score. A neutral athlete could put up a
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big score and there are some unknowns here who have the
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potential to be up there but have not necessarily skated
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their best in international competition this season.
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And so you Add all those up and I think that there are probably
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10 people who could get on the podium now, varying degrees of
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probability. But like, you know, would I be
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incredibly surprised if like Jia Shin get got on the podium?
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Not necessarily. I'd be very surprised, but I
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would feel like it was completely warranted if she
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skated well right? Yeah, I mean, this is this, This
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is Jia Shin has put up a 74 point short program in
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international competition this year, right.
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And and if she goes clean in her free skate, she's in the one 40s
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like that. There is no and if they are
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scoring her correctly in components, which at 4
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continents they certainly were not, she could be up there like
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she's one of those examples, right?
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And and you know, my my general sentimental favorite, Lara Naki
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Goodman is one of those examples of somebody who if she skates to
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her potential, it's there, but they're not going to give her
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the marks in the short program, unfortunately.
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And that's that's probably where that's going to be an issue.
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And like, yeah, go, go and give that one of the most musical
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short programs of all season, like a 7 1/2 for your components
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grade do. It I mean, I I I would like to
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think that if she skates clean, she gets a good score and decent
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components, but I don't yeah, I don't, I don't think it would
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put her in the same. I mean, plus she has an easier
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combination in the short program.
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So she's not going to be in the same, you know, league is maybe
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like the top five, but come on, we're in Italy.
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Give her the components she deserves.
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I know maybe maybe we get a little bit of that, but you
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know, like which is why I was, I was very curious about how
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Europeans was going to go, right, because Nina Petrokina
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comes in with two very big scores, a 70 and a 145 or
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something to that effect, right? Like those are those are top six
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kinds of scores and you wonder if that sort of exuberance that
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she got at Europeans is going to maintain given a very different
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field than Europeans. I think at Europeans by that
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point, when Petra Kina skated, they were just hungry to point.
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Out a a big score. Just don't fall, yeah?
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And, and she delivered and, you know, the win was very easy and,
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and they gave her a huge score for it so.
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The the panel is not going to need that kind of relief.
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I don't think of this competition, I don't think that
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her components will be quite as high in comparison to the other
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skaters. I mean, I definitely think she
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has a shot at top ten, top five, but I think it metal is very
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outside chance. Yeah.
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I feel like it's between the Japanese team and the American
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team and whoever skates really well.
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And then you throw in The X Factor of Adelia Petrosian, who
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I don't know what to expect. I don't know.
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I don't know. Here's the thing, OK, I watched
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her practice video from Russian nationals.
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She did not compete her free skate this way, but her she did
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a full run through in practice. Her quad toes were rotated.
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They were rotated the axle. No, but the, the, the toes were.
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And so let's just say that she's able to get that program out to
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the best of her ability and she gets an under rotation call on
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the triple Axel and she gets full credit for two quad toes.
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That's I mean that. Trend is a game.
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Her components were not terrible at the qualifying competition.
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She skates with a lot of like passion and sparkle.
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I, I have to say she's in the mix for every color metal.
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I mean, and especially in the short program, if she can get
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the triple Axel out. Yeah, it's, it's just, it's a
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true wild card. And until we see her practice,
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you know, I, we, we won't know for sure.
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And then, you know, the last girl out of this camp we saw
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that was subject to, subjected to intense pressure, completely
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crumbled under it. And I don't know what it's going
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to be like for Petrosian. I mean, in one sense, it's not
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negative pressure. You know, it's like they really
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want her to win, but she's putting a lot of pressure on
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herself. But no one's saying, well, I
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think there are people saying she shouldn't be competing, but
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it's not so targeted at her personally, but at, you know,
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Russia and Belarus in general. Yeah.
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So that's just all I don't. The, the, the, The thing is
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they, she needs, if Petrosian is going to be a medal contender,
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she needs the triple Axel and, and, or the quads like she can't
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do it with that, with a full, no triple Axel, short and free.
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So she knows she has to take that risk.
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And the risk is, is that she will get the, the, the bigger
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technical score, which is, which is really the, the, the big
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thing. She is not immune to having
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issues with high pressure situations.
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And we've, we've seen that with her in, in other competitions,
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even domestically. So you know, more of a wild card
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right Where as you talk about, you know, past Russian women
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like Zagitovo or Medvedev or Shrusova and they they often
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times were very locked in very, very quickly.
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Now I think Petrosian skating skills wise is not close to the
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top folks presentation wise is more in line especially in the
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free skate. So you know, you wonder right
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like you wonder how these components are going to be
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scored period. And we won't know until we watch
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the short program and we won't even know unless it is a clean
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short program. Because, you know, if she makes
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a mistake in the short, you're just going to see components
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that reflects that. You're not going to see the,
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like the, the exuberance, if you will, of the, of the, I've used
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that word twice now of, of a, of a clean skate with, you know,
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multiple quads or whatever that, that changes apparently the,
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the, the judge's brain cells and that changes things.
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Yeah, it'll be really interesting to see what her
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strategy is to I mean, it just based on like the condition she
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was in at nationals. It felt like the axle was iffier
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for her. And then when she messed it up
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in the in the free skate, then she really struggled with each
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of the quad attempts. I think maybe do it in the short
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and then just do the quad toes in the free skate.
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But I don't know, I think it's all, it's all a question mark
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and I feel like they're really flying blind with this.
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We all, we all remember Sasha Truseva's triple Axel that Oh my
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God. Like she didn't she barely ever
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hit a clearly in practice. Yeah.
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And she was like, yeah, no, I'll do it in a short program.
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Yeah, crazy. Yeah.
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And it's so frustrating too, because it's like you threw your
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Olympic gold medal away. You could have won the Olympics,
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but you had to do that, right. But anyway, maybe we'll maybe
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she'll she'll have more sense in 20-30.
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We'll see. Oh.
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My goodness, I don't even. I don't think about that yet.
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Yeah. OK, so Japanese women, yeah.
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Calorie I think is capable of doing 2 very clean skates.
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I think she's going to be very determined to do 2 clean skates.
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I think if she is completely clean, the only skaters who
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could catch her would be Petrosian with quads and Amber
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Glenn. What?
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Do you think I would put, I mean Akai into that?
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Oh. I had a clean cowrie.
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We've we've we almost saw it. Yeah.
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At Grand Prix de France it was that was a almost clean cowrie.
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Now, now, that was a cowrie with like spin level issues and a
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couple of other things that kept her from being top top, but
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don't underestimate the value of an 8.0 for, yeah, a triple Axel.
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Yeah, that's. Another four, that's another 4
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1/2 points, right for for the base value for two programs.
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That's nine points that we're talking about.
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And and the The thing is, AMI does so many of her jumps so
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well that the the grades of execution are going to be there.
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So, you know, I think that's that's where you're going to see
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it. And yeah, and I mean, OK.
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Oh, wait, let's talk about Monet before we go to Alyssa.
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Where's Monet? How's Monet going to skate?
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What's Monet going to do? I want Monet to win and I'm
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afraid that she's crumbling. Same, same.
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I, I think I just feel like the the combination or the
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trajectory of Grand Prix Final to Japan, Japan nationals to 4
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continents has not been positive for her.
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But then again, was it last year where she didn't have a really
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good 4 continents and then she came back to worlds and was
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pretty much flawless? You know, it's it's, it is a
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question of how much has she been able to erase her memories
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of these things? Or if not, if it's not erasing
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the memories, it's taking motivation from not having
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skated well to to to push herself forward and it just has
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not seemed like positive energy coming from her, which is tough
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to see because she is so good. And.
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And she the, the thing that she doesn't get enough credit for
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sometimes is how effortless her ice coverage is.
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And, and the way that she just, you know, she is what folks
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would call more of a quiet skater, right?
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Like she just kind of like skims across the ice with very, very
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effortless power. And you know, I just, I, it just
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feels, I don't have a good feeling about it for her for the
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Olympics. But I'm hoping for something
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different. I'm choosing to believe I know
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she has it in her. And I'm choosing.
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To believe in her. And I also feel like the way
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that she's sort of been taken out of the conversation a little
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bit after that kind of three event run could be helpful to
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her. I'm just, I'm choosing to
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believe she can do it. She's healthy, she can do it.
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She is. She'll be fine.
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She just, she just needs to hang out with Caitlin Weaver a little
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bit and she'll be OK. And Caitlin Weaver is going to
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be in Milan, so you know. She she just needs to not do
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more quad toes in. Practice.
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Oh my God, she starts doing those on Olympic ice.
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I'm like I'm calling Interpol. Interpol, get ready.
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Do you think user Ohana will be in Milan?
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No. Like to watch, to hang out, I.
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Don't think so. I mean, I, I, I feel like, I
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feel like if he were to be there, he would be like with
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some sort of TV entity doing something interesting like, you
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know, like somebody will would want to capitalize on a
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potential Yuzu, you know, appearance.
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Well, I'm wondering about a Yuzu Monet moment.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Summon summoned the Yuzu Monet. Yeah, yeah, seriously.
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Yeah. And he knew Shoon when he was
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little too. I was reading about my friend
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Paige sent me a a an article about when Shoon met Yuzu, the
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Yuzu gave him a pendant and it was like a a bow and arrow on a
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pendant. Wow.
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Yeah. Shot that Shot that bow right
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into the Olympic. Team all done.
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OK, Alyssa. Alyssa.
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So Alyssa is going to win a medal because if she doesn't win
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one, it's history because every defending world champion has won
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in women's, in the women's event, has won an Olympic medal.
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It's so crazy. So I mean, the only, I checked
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it, the only year it didn't is when they didn't have worlds
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because of like the war or whatever.
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They still had an Olympics. And so there was no defending
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world champion. That would have been I think
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1917 and 1918 Olympics. So and most of them win gold or
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silver. There were a couple that won
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bronze, one of your faves and and arenas Lutskaya.
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But yeah, is is Alyssa's made a lot of history.
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Could she make some negative history?
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I mean. The thing that we know about
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Alyssa is that she, out of maybe everyone except for Calorie
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Sakaboto has the highest probability of going clean in
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both programs. I, I, yeah, I expect her to do 2
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completely clean programs, yeah. And and you know, if she does 2
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completely clean programs, she's on the podium.
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Yeah. Well, I yeah, I guess.
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I guess. The reason I say the reason I
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say that is because the short program she does have the
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advantage of the triple let's triple loop in the second-half
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of the program. That like even though the the
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free skate is going to be lighter in in base value, the
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fact that if she skates cleanly in the short, really the only
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people who could come close or beat her are calorie Amber, AMI
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and Adelia with a triple Axel. And and so if she finds herself
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in the in the last three for the for the free skate, a clean
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skate's going to get. There, Monet's not out.
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Monet's not going to beat a a clean Alyssa and a short.
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Clean Monet. Clean Grand Prix final show
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program Monet. No OK the the the the the the
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base value is not there. Yeah, but the the components
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are. Yeah, but so, so are, so are
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Alyssa. Components that's true.
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She is getting them for the short that's true exactly OK,
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you're right. You're right, you're right.
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I'm AI have a a little a. Clean A clean Monet in the free
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skate can be a clean Alyssa because it's it is a higher Yeah
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base value. Yeah, I'm like not thinking
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about her rotating the loop. I think when I'm doing my.
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If she. Rotate it, yeah.
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If if she and Amber can do what they did at nationals.
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Those two programs were so good. Yeah.
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Oh my God, Amber. If Amber does that short program
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in Milan, I this is going to blow the roof off the building.
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Not to mention that Madonna is an Italian woman, so they're
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going to be excited about that. Madonna, Ciccone.
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Yeah, I remember in the closing ceremony in Salt Lake City, you
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know, they have someone from like the next Games and they had
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an Italian singer there and they introduced her and they were
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like, she's the Madonna of Italy.
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I was like, Madonna is of Italy, please.
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Madonna is of Italy, America. Italians do it better.
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Yeah, it's. Like Detroit style pizza?
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Yeah, I have no idea how Amber is going to skate here.
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I, I, I, I'm so Amber has burned me so many times.
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I just so I don't believe. And I'm just like, if she skates
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amazingly well, be happy for her.
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But I'm not holding my breath because I don't know what to
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think. And I also feel like I can't
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figure out what it is that makes her not skate well when she
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doesn't. It's very confusing to me.
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So yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
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I really don't know. Yeah, yeah, it's frustrating.
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Does a clean amber beat a clean cowrie?
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Yeah, Yeah, I do think so. Yeah, I don't think that.
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I don't think a clean cowrie is invincible here.
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Yeah, But I do think a clean cowrie only loses to, well, you
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said AMI, but I feel like the odds of clean AMI, clean amber
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or clean Adelia with quads and a triple Axel, those are all very
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precarious. Yeah, yeah, precarious.
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Well, that's, and that's, that's why, that's why Calorie has been
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so good, right? Like she's been able to deliver
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very strong technical content, not the best, but very strong in
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a very consistent basis. And, you know, other people make
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a mistake or two and she's there.
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Yeah. And and when she was, when and
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when she wasn't. There was when Alyssa skated
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perfectly cleanly and she made a bit.
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She made a bit of a mistake. Yeah.
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Oh, and Kyrie made a big mistake.
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No, I mean. Like big, a bit of a big
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mistake. Yeah, yeah.
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OK, where does Isabel factor in? Isabel is, is a total kind of
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like I, I think in a lot of ways she's dark horsing this whole
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thing because we're, I don't think that many people are
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focused on Isabel, given she, she doesn't have the firepower
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of some of the top. She like components.
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Why she is amongst the top, but not not like she's not blowing
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anybody away with her components either.
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But she's, she's good and steady and, and, and also has the the
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potential to be clean. And, you know, I think a lot of
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a lot's going to come down to whether or not she can rotate
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her combos. And, and she's, she's also
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watered down her content from a few years ago when she was back
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loading more things and all that just to make sure that she gets
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her her stuff rotated. And so the base value is no
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longer as high for her. And she needs to be more than
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just clean. She needs to be like skating
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spectacularly a lot because the you're not going to see the same
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kinds of grades of execution for her.
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And so, but that's also to say, right, that this is the kind of
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skater who can, who can be part of the mix because of how, how
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consistent potentially she, she can put down her programs,
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right? And you put, you put in a 2:15
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to 2:20 and you're, you're in the mix for the top five, if not
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higher. Yeah.
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I mean, the last time she competed in Italy.
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Oh, no, no. The last time was at the Olympic
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testament. But before that, when she was at
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the Grand Prix final in Torino, she had a great skate.
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Well, everyone else around her crumbled and talked about how
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like having her family there in the stands, it made it feel like
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so warm and comfortable for her and I guess had the opposite
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effect on everyone else. But I don't know.
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I expect her to skate clean. I just don't know where she's
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going to shake out clean with maybe an under rotation on the
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combo, Right? Yeah.
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I think of of, of all of those, of all of the skaters we just
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talked about, she probably doesn't have her own destiny in
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her hands, right? Like the the, the Asian saying
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of like you don't hold the keys or whatever, like so many
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metaphors right now. But like everybody else is like,
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if they skate cleanly, they're up there.
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If Isabel skates cleanly, she's up there.
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But she would need others to have issues for her to really be
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up there. You know who I really want to be
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in the mix but I don't think will.
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It's Luna Hendrix. Luna Hendrix has not skated a
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clean short program all season I.
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Know, I mean the Luna of years past could sneak into this top
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five, but I don't know if she's in the shape to get there and I
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don't know why the short program is such a like issue for her.
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It also just doesn't help that when she's doing her triple
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triples, the triple toe is not clean right now.
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Yeah, yeah, it. It hasn't come back.
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Yeah. The way that she would have
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liked it to come back. But yeah, I don't, I don't know
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about that short program either. Like what's going on.
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Like it's Céline Dion Luna. Yeah, just listen to it and
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enjoy it and you know. Maybe it shouldn't be called
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ashes. Maybe she should be skating to
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that's the way it is. I know exactly.
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Or I'm or I'm alive, yes. I mean, wouldn't that have been
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such a? That would be so good.
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It would have been such a thing. There's a guy on TikTok that
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does edits to like the Céline Dion songs, the upbeat ones, and
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he just like does all these very dramatic head movements and
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stuff. And it's very like, you know,
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like, yeah, let's go. And I can see, I can see Luna
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doing it. All the little Celine, little,
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little details. I mean, and then there's our,
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you know, beautiful, wonderful Jia Shin, who I think could be
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on the podium here but probably won't.
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She's got a performance in international competition issue
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that I think she needs to figure out, and I don't know if she'll
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figure it out before this event, but I would love for her to.
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I would love it. It's interesting, right?
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Like Jia Shin could be one of those people who has like an OK
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Olympics and then just like hits it out of the ballpark for for
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the for worlds. Like.
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She could be one of those, you know, I think, I think you, you
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look at this field and you know, Anastasia Coupanovas in there,
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Sofia Salvadelkina is in there, Batty skis as if she skates like
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she did in that free skate at nationals.
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It not that she's in there for the for for the medals, but
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she's, you know, getting into the top 10 here is going to be
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quite the feat for for everybody, period.
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You know, I and and I think all of those who we just mentioned,
28:20
like that's, that's my 15 or so who could make it to the top
28:26
ten. Yeah, that's 15.
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I mean, it's it's, it's big. And and we're not even talking
28:32
about Nina Pinzarone. We're not even talking about
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Kimi Ripa. We're not even talking about
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Victoria Safonova, right. Like the skaters who we have
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known for a number of years, who have been, have been up there.
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And it it's a it's a, it's a very talented field and is going
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to be a nail biter. Yeah.
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And getting into that free skate is so sorry.
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Getting into the final six for the free skate is going to be so
29:07
important. Yeah.
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And that's the thing that Adelia Petrosian does not have in her
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favor. She's going first or second.
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Yeah, in the short program. Yeah, that.
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Completely changes the game. Yeah.
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I mean, I feel like even if she does a clean short program with
29:28
a triple Axel and let's say she gets like a 71, yeah, 72, that's
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like. 8th. Yeah, like all these girls can
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beat that if they're clean. Yeah.
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What did she get at the qualifying competition?
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668 right? Yeah, 6872.
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Yeah, she has to have the axle in there and she may not even
29:47
break 80 with it, right? Very interesting.
29:51
Yeah, 68 and she had AQ on her triple Lutz.
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So had she been? Oh right, I remember this.
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It was. It was a.
30:03
Very tight. It was a tight Lutz.
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Yeah. Had she gotten that clean, she
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would have been probably 71. So with a triple Axel 75.
30:18
Yeah. But going first, also very
30:21
different. Yeah.
30:23
Yeah. I mean, we'll see.
30:24
We'll see how that goes. Shall we do top five?
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Oh, this is so hard, Jackie. OK, you know what?
30:37
I'm just going to trust my gut and my heart, which have led me
30:41
astray many times, but I'm going to.
30:42
I'm going to trust them #1 calorie #2 Alyssa #3 Monet chiba
30:51
#4 AMI nakai #5 Amber Glenn. Wow.
30:59
Sorry. I just.
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I know. I know.
31:02
I it hurts. You have to believe this is.
31:07
So is so it's such a weird. Yeah.
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And I, I mean, when I do that, I'm also counting on Petrosian
31:14
not being able to withstand the pressure.
31:17
Yeah, which, you know, I, I'd love to be wrong about about,
31:21
but. I don't even know if I'm second
31:24
guessing or if I am thinking about this like I'm putting the
31:30
the wrong names out in the world right now.
31:36
Cowrie, Amber. Alyssa.
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Oh my gosh. AMI Isabo.
31:50
Interesting. Yeah.
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OK. I don't know what to think.
31:58
I don't. I have money in 7th.
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Oh. I know.
32:04
Yeah, No, I I think she'll get it together.
32:08
I think she'll, she'll have it together.
32:10
I didn't even know where I was going to put Isabel.
32:12
I just, I don't think she, I think 5th could be Amber, Isabel
32:16
or Adelia, but I just went with Amber or just came out.
32:23
Yeah. The Are we going to do our our
32:25
who, If we could pick who it would be?
32:30
No, it would be Lara Naki Goodman.
32:37
Yes, Gia Gia Shin. No, I mean, you know, there's a
32:45
part of me that wants to say it's time for Amber Glenn to
32:51
have two clean skates. God yes, imagine if she did that
32:55
and she won and she's completely capable of it.
32:58
It's like it just kills me how capable of it she is.
33:00
And it's like it's not just it's not just that she lands her
33:03
jumps, it's that she lands all her jumps.
33:05
Well, you know, like, no, no scratchy triple flip triple
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toes. No, like foot down on your
33:12
triple axle, like everything is to the edge of your seat.
33:19
Amber Glenn that it could possibly be.
33:22
And yeah, I think that wins. Yeah.
33:28
It's like, don't even want to think about it because it's just
33:30
like, yeah. By the time this podcast comes
33:35
out we will have had more answers because the team event
33:39
will have happened and we will know things that we didn't know
33:45
at this time while we're doing these pre pre Olympics previews.
33:50
Yeah, and learn a lot from watching practice.
33:53
Absolutely, absolutely. Oh boy.
34:00
That's all our previews, folks. See it Worlds.
34:08
You are listening to the two of us while we are still fresh
34:11
because we have not done weeks of practice sessions, but.
34:18
What? What?
34:18
What? What number Olympics is this for
34:20
you? Four, no 5th winter, but 6th
34:25
overall. Oh my God that's crazy.
34:27
I start first which. One was your.
34:29
Which one was your summer? Paris, Evan Bates and I have
34:34
done all the same Olympics. So because Vancouver was his
34:38
first, and that was my first, and then I finally got hired to
34:41
work a Summer Olympics and I'm there and Evan Bates is there
34:44
too, so. What a crazy stat that is.
34:47
Yeah, yeah, I know. So I've got to keep keep working
34:51
them or he's got to keep competing because one of us has
34:53
to beat. You Evan Bates outlives.
34:59
Uh huh, doesn't outlive us all I've got.
35:06
I'm so excited to be there. I am also so terrified to be
35:13
there. There's just it's as we record
35:19
this on the Wednesday before we leave, I'm feeling a little
35:23
overwhelmed. I've got a pack tonight.
35:27
But it's also it, it, it never ceases to come back to me what a
35:34
privilege it is to be able to do this and to be able to do the
35:39
things that when we were young Figure skaters, be like the
35:44
Olympics, let's get the Olympics.
35:46
And no, we're Olympics observers.
35:48
But you know, it's still the Olympics.
35:52
Yeah, it's almost a relief to get to go and not have to skate.
35:55
I know I I would. I Yeah, I wouldn't do well.
35:59
All right, Well, thank you for listening to us all of this time
36:05
with the previews. It will be a fun event, however
36:11
it goes. It will be a it will be, it's
36:14
the Olympics. It's always the Olympics, so.
36:17
And we'll be back a day or two after it wraps up, just frazzled
36:22
out of our minds, speaking deliriously about skating.
36:26
Or something, something will happen.
36:29
All right. Well, for Michelle Ellis, this
36:32
is Jackie Wong. She's skate nerd of
36:33
rockerskating.com. By the time you listen to this,
36:37
we will both have aged a few years from all the work that we
36:40
were doing. Thank you for listening to us.
36:44
Thank you for supporting us, and thank you John Wilson Blaze for
36:48
supporting us. And thank you, Tara Nichols for
36:52
continuing to listen to us blather about pre previews for
36:57
the Olympics. And we will talk to you again on
37:02
the other side. And the other side means a full
37:07
wrap up of the Olympic figure skating competitions coming up
37:13
in late February bye. Bye.