TIMESTAMPS: 00:29 - Coronavirus ft. Montreal Worlds, Tokyo Olympics 04:38 - Alexa & Chris Knierim ft. back-up pairs, Alexei Krasnozhon 07:25 - Jonathan’s early moment of the week: on the ‘gram - Adult Sectionals 11:21 - Gabriella Papadakis & Guillaume Cizeron 12:13 - French figure skating: Nathalie Péchalat, Morgan Ciprès 16:56 - Eteri Tutberidze coaching ice-dance **Junior Ladies**: 18:35 - Maiia Khromykh 24:05 - Harsh judging in adult skaters 25:00 - Meghan Duhamel 25:36 - Dave translating Aljona Savchenko’s book 27:33 - Alysa Liu 35:33 - Daria Usachëva ft. Kamila Valieva (38:54) 40:22 - Kamila Valieva 43:13 - Aliona Kostornaia 43:55 - Seoyeong Wi 45:19 - Haein Lee 47:43 - Alison Schumacher 48:00 - Ekaterina Kurakova 49:29 - Starr Andrews + Margaret Szymanski ft. Gracie Gold, flautists 55:14 - Felicia Zhang + Dave's skating & sleeping life! **Junior Mens**: 58:04 - How many Edea skates have broken this season? - Stephen Gogolev + Cruise ships, Kathie Lee, musical theatre 1:02:49 - Petr Gumennik ft. Phantom vs. Carmen, Richard Callaghan skaters 1:06:34 - What is Ludwig reading right now? 1:07:00 - Stephen Gogolev 1:07:45 - Andrei Mozalev 1:09:07 - Yuma Kagiyama 1:11:25 - Ted Barton 1:13:35 - back to Yuma 1:13:55 - Andrew Torgashev + Coloardo situation 1:17:55 - Joseph Phan 1:18:52 - Daniel Grassl **Junior Ice Dance**: 1:21:05 - Avonley Nguyen & Vadym Kolesnik **Junior Pairs**: 1:24:33 - Apollinariia Panfilova & Dmitri Rylov 1:25:26 - The rest of the Pairs field **Other News**: 1:25:40 - Adelina Sotnikova 1:28:16 - Elena Ilinykh ft. Ruslan Zhiganshin (1:30:00) 1:31:33 - Next Week!
41:16 Fun fact tho idk if it's fun: the dress designer of KAmila's FS dress is Milena Bobkova. SHe also designed Shcherbakova's firebird dress and Evgenia'a SP Exogenesis dress.She was also the one who designed many of Mao Asada's dresses.
Valieva's dress has the same issue as costumes from ballet "Ivan the Terrible" - audience is not supposed to look at it on closer view. With a distant view this mesh fabric looks like arm of the galaxy in the night sky on Kamila's dress; or like heavy medieval clothing in the ballet.
“Igor’s won this before, but Pasequale, he looked like he was going to do a cartwheel! Like those Georgian kids did on the ice. To Linkin Park.” Ok, Dave. THAT. SENT ME. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Valieva was indeed injured before JGF (that's why she took out both quad toes), maybe Ted only remembered about the injury and not that she participated and won the competition lol.
It's not just Kagiyama's mistakes that decided the result. It's also Mozalev's ability to deliver in the right place at the right time. He fought hard to make sure he did everything he is now capable of.
Gumennik was originally Mishin's boy. Dave's guess was 100% correct, he was trained by Mishin for a very long time. But now he is with Veronika Daineko, who's also known for cheesy programs, but her skaters are actually making this programs work. Andrei Kutovoi "Les Miserables" free skate is a good example. In my opinion this is even more cheesy piece of music, than Phantom. But Kutovoy is so good that you can actually enjoy this program.
@@TheSkatingLesson Wow, that sounds rude. So what's the reason to talk about something that you didn't care. Especially if this is some harsh words about a dress of a 13 yo girl.
One of the most beautiful dresses outside of Olympics. Their wolverine references are entertaining, but rude and misguided. Kamila's dresses in this comp were great.
Japan cancled Stars on ice for the first 6 perfromances for two cities in Japan becuase of The Virus happending their might cancled the other two cities in Japan but who knows
Don't you think it's pretty cruel to laugh at a thirteen year old girl, I mean Daria Usachova. She's still a child, she may not be able to express her feelings in the right way and there may be some exaggerations but can't you find something more interesting in her performance? You can say what you like or dislike in her skating, but it's not fair to make fun of a person, especially a child who works hard for her goals and has remarkable achievements. And I don't think Kamila's dress should be the main topic of discussion when you are speaking about such an incredibly talented young lady. In the end, do you have anything against reading drama? I don't think it's a shame in the modern world to read serious books.
Another more degrading thing can not be expected from 2 gay Americans who are more interested in the sexual gossip of American skaters, like the one he slept with or if he did a trio, gossip is more important for these guys than true skating That is why they hate to the skaters teenagers who now monopolize all the covers, because with them they will not have gossip, worse if they are Russian who usually maintain a correct life.
Wow are you saying they do not live a proper life because of their sexual orientation, I think that is the most offensive comment I have heard how can you judge anyone with that vile remark. For the record I am a conservative and still find your remarks absolutley disturbing
I think the music choices for Daria's both short and long programs match her exquisite skating very nicely. Usacheva is still somehow underestimated in the shadow of Kamila and Alysa. I think sooner or later Daria will introduce and stabilize some Ultra-C elements and become a solid contender for the Olympic title in two years. It was very pleasant to hear that Daria is among the fewest in the world who still read good classic books
I was always a Michelle Kwan fan. I had a hard time with most of Canadian ladies and checked out on cheering for them. Michelle was my favourite lady of the 90s and early 2000s.
I almost died when Lee Hae-in fell in her FS. My heart is still broken. But two surprises - Alison Schumacher not only skating two clean programs back to back, but two season's best back to back. I've watched her for 2 years, and she has never come close to this level before. When Ted said it was the best she has ever skated, believe him this time - it was! And Wi Seo-Young surprised me with how good she is. She has the best 3Lz-3T in the competition.
you guys mentioned Alysa's free feeling very backloaded - thats probably because in the senior version she had the choreographic sequence in the middle of her second half jumps, which juniors don't have. Which begs the question - why don't juniors have a choreographic sequence? I can't think of any reason why and it always makes the program less enjoyable to not have it.
2) Diana. 3) preoccupation with Alina when TSK skated in juniors. 4) Estonia is not far away from Moscow. 1) no outside rivalry and threat to the title when Anna/Sasha/ Aliona competed at JWC, while now Eteri had to ensure Kamila was in a proper shape and mood for battle with Alysa
Or maybe she just likes Tallinn. The last junior worlds that she visited (2015) were also in Tallinn , she went there with Medvedeva. While in 2014 Medvedeva went to junior worlds to Bulgaria (which is also not far from Moscow) with Dudakov alone.
I know you can't seriously consider a pair a contender without triples, but unfortunately, I'm invested in Panfilova/Rylov. The speed, the size and especially lack of telegraphing(I can think of also the Chinese in this aspect, can't comment on the rest) on the throws, and those LIFTS. He is spectacular. The footwork and speed he builds throughout them is second to none- on par with Han in this specific element I daresay.
Indian Wells, a major tennis tournament in California, got cancelled tonight (Sunday) the day before the event started. Most players were pretty much in town.
You are too strict to Russian juniors: you discussed everything so detailed: even costumes, music. And you liked almost nothing. Despite all medals they won. Even the mimic of Daria makes you laugh. Wow. Thank you for such intense attention to our skaters and trainers and choreograghers. Poor Daniil Gleihengauz. So much poison is pouring on him in every video. Fortunately he has work to do and doesn’t watch every video on YT.
woah ok people are so quick! a bunch of people are already working on timestamps so i'm gonna hold on posting. gonna sit back and relax with some tea :P
@@TheSkatingLesson Yes, it was read "father". His coach wrote it on her palm (not a tattoo, she used a marker). Firstly because Yuma's father was also one of the best figure skaters in Japan back then, secondly (it's actually deeper than the first) is that the music of Yuma's SP "Shukumei (Destiny)" is from a soundtrack of a Japanese film "Suna No Utsuwa (incorrectly translated to Castle of Sand, correctly "The Cup of Sand") (the original film was released in 1974) which is about the love and bond of a father and his son. The main character is a famous music composer who is about to climb the social ladder by marrying a daughter of a very big name in politics. He had a visitor, a retired police officer who knew his secret past then killed him. His secret past is, his father is leprotic. Back then(during or before WWll), in Japan those patients of this illness were almost forcibly sent to a sanatorium. His father doesn't want to go there, so he roams around with his son. One day, a police officer (later killed) find this father and son, then persuades the father to go to a sanatorium then raise the son as a foster child. But the son leaves home to see his father but as the illness is very infectious, so he can't find or see his father. Then someone meets this son and takes care of him. When this son becomes an adult, his talent of composing music brooms then he becomes a social icon. The police officer happens to find him after searching him for a long time, then visits him to take him to the sanatorium where his father is kept for decades, but the son refuses since he keeps his past secret because of the perception Japanese people has back then that Leprosy is hereditary. After the quarrel, the son kills the police officer so that technically no one knows of his father and his past. But the police investigates this murder then finds out who did it. They come to the concert to arrest him where he is playing the music "Destiny (Shukumei)" with the orchestra. This is the last scene. This film was re-made again but the original one is the best as other films, it's classic. th-cam.com/video/9axACQoRn0E/w-d-xo.html IMDB www.imdb.com/title/tt0202604/
So the music title "Destiny" is about the life of the father and the son since leprosy was thought to be uncurable back then, also the relationship of the father and the son.
If you want to know "what happend with Haein Lee's 3F" just take a good look at all of her jumps in slow motion (and it's better to study them by frame), especially in the combo - many of her jumps should be called UR. Just on the 3F "implicit became explicit"
OMG, this is one fabulous episode! From Pooh T-shirt guns to Adult skating...issues to how others ID who bats for which team, no matter the sport, I laughed out loud multiple times! ("That girl needs pants!"😂) Serious question now, though, w preamble: Watched ice dancing FS final, & blown away by Avonlea & Vadym. Also saw the Georgian couple who did some...acrobatic crowd pleasing stuff, BUT I think they violated ice dance rules, like she flying up & over his head, never mind the cartwheels. Any commentary or explanation happily received.
Also, one more observation. It is interesting how much westerners feel the need to make their comments about her "serious programs". While, on the other hand, the chinese girl Yi Zhu skated to the "The Winner Take It All" cover, much more dark and serious than the original song, and nobody questions it...
I found Ted's pressure of speech exceptionally distracting during Junior Worlds, lol. And Jonathan, my birthday is always around Worlds and I thought it was next weekend too! We are trying to rush March! Thanks as always guys.
The Quebec/Canadian government will have final say on Worlds not the ISU. They could make skaters/fans quartine before or after worlds. I'm a nurse at a Seattle hospital with a unit dedicated to covid patients. Things look entirely different when you see things in person
About USFS waiting for some wonder - the seniors are basically Asian Americans, and juniors are Russian/Ukranian: Malinin, Naumov, Kolesnik, Krasnozhon, Torgashev, etc. Gogolev in Canada... Where is the native crop? It looks like Federation doesn`t work for the future
The pair event was rough, but the winners Panfilova and Rylov have some great qualities like amazing throws. Is the US pair guy Balazs Nagy tall enough for Alexa Knierim? I think he might have the talent to pair with her but I don't know about his height. His current partner is taller than her. If I were him, I would call Alexa. There needs to be a shakeup in US pairs to get the best talent paired with the best talent. I'm hoping TJ will try out with her.
Nagy is 5'9-1/2" according to Wiki. That's 4-1/2 inches shorter than Chris. It would be an adjustment, but when I watched his and Finster's skates at Junior Worlds, I immediately thought that he and Alexa would look good together. Then I immediately felt guilty; he might well be as reluctant to leave his partner as anyone. Interestingly, she's 5'4" ... and I haven't seen any consternation over lack of height difference. That's only 5 1/2" difference by my count. Tim is 7 inches taller than Ashley. I believe I read in an interview that Nagy's partner, Kate Finster, was without a partner for a year or more before pairing with him.
I just love Tomoe Kawabata. Hoping for her to medal even just the bronze because the gold and silver are obviously for the russians. So sad because her jumps are textbook (except for the flip edge) but has problems with consistencies .She’s also criminally underscored in pcs 😭 . What disappoints me the most is that seeing flutz ,lootz, toe-axel getting +2 goe 🤮
To me she's the representation of the state of Japanese ladies: you can still see the greatness like her 3lutz, some nice skating skills, but it's also clear she's nowhere on the level of the russians or even the koreans. Not the same consistency, the free skate is rarely skated clean, spin positions are not the best and slow: like she has a beautiful Blue Danube short program and you end the routine with THAT slow camel spin?
Absolutely adored the USA ice dance team. She is a star! They have the "IT" factor.RE: the Canadians and Michelle, the tour group who stayed at our hotel in DC in 03..LOVED her. They were the ones who introduced me to the term SWR.
I’m assuming they don’t allow quads and 3As in the short program because it takes a long(er) time to set up those jumps (in general) and is usually done without a transition. Just guessing though...
The most famous and dog-eared truism in figure skating: “You want s’mores? Build a fire.” Until the US finds a way to scout the juniors with the passion of Alysa to put in the work we have no chance. The quality of the coaches, ice, and analytics won’t mean much in the international arena as we continue falling behind looking for a short cut or magic hack.
The Japanese junior ladies are in a bit of a tailspin right now, and with Kawabata and Kawabe both absolutely tanking the free skate, Japan's JGP allotment for ladies plummeted from fourteen to six total (plus two host spots, since there's a home JGP next season). Canadian junior dance also lost half its JGP spots without Lajoie/Lagha, who singlehandedly kept Canada in the top three countries for the past three Junior Worlds; but since one of the countries ahead is Georgia, which has basically no teams, I expect most of those spots will be released for use by France and Canada, the next two countries, so that won't end up being as bad.
Edea needs to get their s**t together. This is getting ridiculous. I'm a showqueen, who also hates Oliver & loves Smash! Have you been to Don't Tell Mamma's? It was a hella lot of fun! People get up to sing, but their pros, with their sheet music binder, so they'revl pros who give a real show.
I loved the Alexa and Chris interview. Their relationship appears healthy and supportive. Jenny really brought it with the questions and it ended up being so emotional! Also, is it just me or are music choices this season the worst they’ve ever been?
I really think Starr needs a new coaching team and she needs them now. Maybe Raf or Brian would be good for her? She really needs help with her jumps. I would also like to see some better choreography. I'm not hating on her current coaching team, I just think that at this point in her career, she needs more help than they can give her. I really like Starr and I would be so sad if she doesn't make it. She does have a 'star quality' about her.
She needed to switch coaching teams 2 years ago after reaching senior nationals. 2019 was her chance to really break out, but she fell 4 places instead. And then she dropped again this year. I really like Starr and what she represents for the sport, but she is in a rough spot and she’s about 4-5 years too late to be working out how to do a triple lutz. Her flip is wonky too.
Why did you decide that Eteri does not teach jumping? Eteri trained Shelepen long before Dudakov came to her group. That's because of such superficial judgments, the superficial schemes that you constantly use, it is difficult to take you 100% seriously.
I liked all first five juniors, they are all spectacular, Haein needs more practice and Maya needs to learn how to jump, Alysa and Kamila are grand,though Daria has improved also, though I think she can''t beat Alysa if she lands her quads. On corona virus, the number of infected people world-wide is now lower compared to those that recovered than in mid February, or even earlier last week, so the virus is still spreading, on a daily, but it also seems that it is being contained with more people recovering than those infected.
Sure, Malade by Laura Fabian is about overused in figure skating, but I think it's a good match, even an excellent one for Daria. Nice to hear your positive comments about her as I like her quite much. I have a hard time hearing any criticism of Kamila, but maybe that's just me. Entertaining overall, certainly.
If there's health concerns they should do what they are doing in Italy with sporting events which is have the events without an audience. It takes from the glamour but safety first. And I feel if it where only athletes, technical stuff, isu officials (the minimum) and volunteers (the minimum) it should be safe.
How dare you make such assumptions that are not based on anything - "Eteri doesn't go out on the ice every day" (40.08). What's wrong with you? This is worst kind of gossip.
I am not liking Natalie P. She seems to be a conniving person who played a bunch of games to get the presidency. I appreciate there is some politics and she is trying to play the game but I am don't trust her. I do not like "schemers". As for Morgan even before the allegation he has always had a lot of "shirtless" player type photos. I am surprised his people (PR) didn'try to make him look so "Chachi" so much like a player. All his photos seem to be somewhat suggestive; I know he is athletically built but i don't think this is the time to focus on it.
TheSkatingLesson in the front of his hairline there is a ring of new hair growing in. It looks like a ring of buzzed hairs in front of his normal hairline. That is 💯 from hair transplant surgery. I noticed it in the kiss and cry of the free skates.
Ashley thanked Johnny Weir via IG for connecting her with a NJ stylist for her new hair color. Maybe she'd been contemplating a change for some time, for less maintenance. That would be my guess, notwithstanding your insinuations about anything else going with Ashley. Someone should make a tally sheet of how many, or how few TSL insinuations actually pan out.
Angel I would be so sure about that. The International Ice Hockey Federation cancelled the women's under 18 worlds scheduled for later this month in Easter Canada. I don't think its solely based on whether the virus is in Canada it also on the in flux of people from other countries coming to the event.
Colette Robichaud I feel for all parties involved. The people trying to demonize Skate Canada and the ISU for wanting to continue are forgetting the amount of time, money and effort put in to the event and the skaters who have also put time, money, practice and energy into their preparation. I'm not sure if they can postpone (the Bell Centre should be available since the Canadiens aren't in the play offs).
Colette Robichaud I agree it is the right thing to do however, I don't think there were any ill intentions from Skate Canada and the ISU delaying cancelling. The decision was not to be taken lightly. There is a lot on the line for all parties involved.
nothing is more relaxing than watching haein lee skating. but in this cruel world of quads and triple axles she will have a big problem in the future if she wants to stand on the podium. she is 14 and that's her last chance to master any of the above skills . but hysterical triple axles and quads will destroy her tranquility which is her greatest and special quality .
Personally i hope it goes the opposite way: Eteri is impressed with Pasquale's choreography for her daughter that she sends all her students to him to choreograph new programs. Probably won't happen.
I do not understand Lyu's strategy. why they do not do a 3-3 combo instead of Axel-Toe in the 2nd half! The points will be higher! As for Ted, I am so tired him say TUTBERETSEE, I want to vomit. He pronounced Nika Egadze's surname exactly like that. It is DZE and it means son. I even commented on Ted photo on his instagram to change the way he says that. It sounds just ridiculous.
David Lease, I have a serious question for you. Do you think people are too hard on the U.S women of the last 12 years. In fairness none of them are as great or most importantly as consistent (the main ingredient to success in the sport, the mentally toughest skater wins as much as the most talented one) as Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski, or probably even Sasha Cohen and Sarah Hughes in their primes. Then again I think people overlook that the competition level outside of the U.S is insane and way harder than those girls had. Take Michelle Kwan for instance. Her only real competition most of her career was Slutskaya, and Slutskaya beat her fairly often in their careers, Michelle was a bit lucky Irina tended to underperform in worlds/Olympics. Well today Russia in a typical year has 3 or 4 women as good or better than Slutskaya, honestly better really, but I guess it isn't fair to compare things like difficulty from a time long ago past, but Slutskaya was basically just a technical skater only with hardly any artistry, and in a typical year 3 or 4 Russian girls atleast are blowing away what she used to do in jump content, ease and precise execution of difficult 3/3s, and consistency. Or take the great Kristi Yamaguchi for instance, her only real competition was Ito, I don't even count Harding who was only great for a 1 year window really, the 2nd half of the 90/91 season and first half of the 91/92 season. Well again U.S girls today face atleast 5 women from Russia or Japan combined who are comparably difficult to face, not as powerful or spectacular as Ito the greatest jumper ever at her best maybe, but Ito was on the downside of her career when Kristi became her real rival, and inconsistent and injury proned too. Put Wagner and Gold when Cohen competed for instance. I honestly think even with Gold being a headcase and Wagner's more limited talents and also not being totally consistent herself, looking at their sets of performances in worlds/Olympics even with the mistakes they probably could have maybe matched Cohen's output of 3 or 4 world/Olympic medals, with a non gold Olympic medal perhaps. Gold's 4th place performances in Sochi which are probably the best she dealth with the pressure of a big event, would medal most Olympics, although usually wouldn't win gold but Cohen didn't either. And could have possibly won the Olympic Sarah Hughes won honestly which lets face it was pretty weak. I don't think people take into account this much harder international competition that the past greats Yamaguchi and Kwan, and lesser greats like Cohen did not face. Let alone the ones before them like Hamill and Fleming who lets face it faced even less quality competition. What are your thoughts.
I feel like Eteri should coach the Indian dance team from the JGP - they were already attempting side by side jumps in their free dance why not try some quads in there? 😂
TIMESTAMPS:
00:29 - Coronavirus ft. Montreal Worlds, Tokyo Olympics
04:38 - Alexa & Chris Knierim ft. back-up pairs, Alexei Krasnozhon
07:25 - Jonathan’s early moment of the week: on the ‘gram - Adult Sectionals
11:21 - Gabriella Papadakis & Guillaume Cizeron
12:13 - French figure skating: Nathalie Péchalat, Morgan Ciprès
16:56 - Eteri Tutberidze coaching ice-dance
**Junior Ladies**:
18:35 - Maiia Khromykh
24:05 - Harsh judging in adult skaters
25:00 - Meghan Duhamel
25:36 - Dave translating Aljona Savchenko’s book
27:33 - Alysa Liu
35:33 - Daria Usachëva ft. Kamila Valieva (38:54)
40:22 - Kamila Valieva
43:13 - Aliona Kostornaia
43:55 - Seoyeong Wi
45:19 - Haein Lee
47:43 - Alison Schumacher
48:00 - Ekaterina Kurakova
49:29 - Starr Andrews + Margaret Szymanski ft. Gracie Gold, flautists
55:14 - Felicia Zhang + Dave's skating & sleeping life!
**Junior Mens**:
58:04 - How many Edea skates have broken this season? - Stephen Gogolev + Cruise ships, Kathie Lee, musical theatre
1:02:49 - Petr Gumennik ft. Phantom vs. Carmen, Richard Callaghan skaters
1:06:34 - What is Ludwig reading right now?
1:07:00 - Stephen Gogolev
1:07:45 - Andrei Mozalev
1:09:07 - Yuma Kagiyama
1:11:25 - Ted Barton
1:13:35 - back to Yuma
1:13:55 - Andrew Torgashev + Coloardo situation
1:17:55 - Joseph Phan
1:18:52 - Daniel Grassl
**Junior Ice Dance**:
1:21:05 - Avonley Nguyen & Vadym Kolesnik
**Junior Pairs**:
1:24:33 - Apollinariia Panfilova & Dmitri Rylov
1:25:26 - The rest of the Pairs field
**Other News**:
1:25:40 - Adelina Sotnikova
1:28:16 - Elena Ilinykh ft. Ruslan Zhiganshin (1:30:00)
1:31:33 - Next Week!
Thank you so much!!!!
Timestamps queen! Thanks
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What was the story about Sotnikova & the $30k.
Oh, boy! We have your time-stamps, pizza and ginger ale. Thanks very much, always.
41:16 Fun fact tho idk if it's fun: the dress designer of KAmila's FS dress is Milena Bobkova. SHe also designed Shcherbakova's firebird dress and Evgenia'a SP Exogenesis dress.She was also the one who designed many of Mao Asada's dresses.
Gimme Chimken Nugget that explains why I didn’t like it.
Valieva's dress has the same issue as costumes from ballet "Ivan the Terrible" - audience is not supposed to look at it on closer view. With a distant view this mesh fabric looks like arm of the galaxy in the night sky on Kamila's dress; or like heavy medieval clothing in the ballet.
“Igor’s won this before, but Pasequale, he looked like he was going to do a cartwheel! Like those Georgian kids did on the ice. To Linkin Park.” Ok, Dave. THAT. SENT ME. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
My favorite Ted moment this broadcast was when he called the top five while Daria was warming up.
He also said that Valieva missed the JGPF when she won it...
@@rywilk I shouted this out - "Valieva won the JFGF" - when Ted said it. He really has a terrible memory.
To be fair, it was a looong week for him. I can't imagine sitting through all those skaters every day.
Ryan Wilkinson strange esp since Valieva is clearly his favorite 😂 oh Ted you’re forgiven
Valieva was indeed injured before JGF (that's why she took out both quad toes), maybe Ted only remembered about the injury and not that she participated and won the competition lol.
LOL at Dave’s intonation when he says “She wants a sweep, okay?”
Dinara Simon 😘😘
I would live for Eteri’s dance teams lol. Costume changes, quintuple twizzles, I mean yes please!!!
It's not just Kagiyama's mistakes that decided the result. It's also Mozalev's ability to deliver in the right place at the right time. He fought hard to make sure he did everything he is now capable of.
Gumennik was originally Mishin's boy. Dave's guess was 100% correct, he was trained by Mishin for a very long time. But now he is with Veronika Daineko, who's also known for cheesy programs, but her skaters are actually making this programs work. Andrei Kutovoi "Les Miserables" free skate is a good example. In my opinion this is even more cheesy piece of music, than Phantom. But Kutovoy is so good that you can actually enjoy this program.
I’m eight minutes in and already losing my mind over “imaginary pants” 😹
Can't you see? Valieva's dress is a butterfly. The head and body are clearly visible in the chest. Even little kids could see that...
Didn’t see, didn’t care. Looked like a big mess.
@@TheSkatingLesson Wow, that sounds rude. So what's the reason to talk about something that you didn't care. Especially if this is some harsh words about a dress of a 13 yo girl.
Well, some people see only what to want. Anyone can talk, but not everyone can behold...
One of the most beautiful dresses outside of Olympics. Their wolverine references are entertaining, but rude and misguided. Kamila's dresses in this comp were great.
Avonley and Vadym were amazing! Their free skate was the highlight of Junior Worlds in my opinion. 💛
Yuma's coach wrote the character for father on her hand. She was referencing Yuma's dad, who was a former Japanese national champion.
I have been looking forward to this all day .
Same!
Enjoy~
i dont see them cancelling worlds, im volunteering there and they seem to be showing no signs of stopping
enjoy!
Japan cancled Stars on ice for the first 6 perfromances for two cities in Japan becuase of The Virus happending their might cancled the other two cities in Japan but who knows
@@TheSkatingLesson since it's so close & many may already be on route, are they even discussing a no audience option?
@@tb4522 no.
@@sincantations huh. I worry about fans who will come even if they are sick.
Don't you think it's pretty cruel to laugh at a thirteen year old girl, I mean Daria Usachova. She's still a child, she may not be able to express her feelings in the right way and there may be some exaggerations but can't you find something more interesting in her performance? You can say what you like or dislike in her skating, but it's not fair to make fun of a person, especially a child who works hard for her goals and has remarkable achievements. And I don't think Kamila's dress should be the main topic of discussion when you are speaking about such an incredibly talented young lady. In the end, do you have anything against reading drama? I don't think it's a shame in the modern world to read serious books.
I think you are reading into it way to much
Icome on
Another more degrading thing can not be expected from 2 gay Americans who are more interested in the sexual gossip of American skaters, like the one he slept with or if he did a trio, gossip is more important for these guys than true skating That is why they hate to the skaters teenagers who now monopolize all the covers, because with them they will not have gossip, worse if they are Russian who usually maintain a correct life.
@@alexeynovikov4178 wow you say there comments are offensive do you hear yourself wow
Wow are you saying they do not live a proper life because of their sexual orientation, I think that is the most offensive comment I have heard how can you judge anyone with that vile remark.
For the record I am a conservative and still find your remarks absolutley disturbing
I think the music choices for Daria's both short and long programs match her exquisite skating very nicely. Usacheva is still somehow underestimated in the shadow of Kamila and Alysa. I think sooner or later Daria will introduce and stabilize some Ultra-C elements and become a solid contender for the Olympic title in two years. It was very pleasant to hear that Daria is among the fewest in the world who still read good classic books
I was always a Michelle Kwan fan. I had a hard time with most of Canadian ladies and checked out on cheering for them. Michelle was my favourite lady of the 90s and early 2000s.
Desirae Graham well considering she won two of her world titles in Canada 🇨🇦
I almost died when Lee Hae-in fell in her FS. My heart is still broken.
But two surprises - Alison Schumacher not only skating two clean programs back to back, but two season's best back to back. I've watched her for 2 years, and she has never come close to this level before. When Ted said it was the best she has ever skated, believe him this time - it was! And Wi Seo-Young surprised me with how good she is. She has the best 3Lz-3T in the competition.
you guys mentioned Alysa's free feeling very backloaded - thats probably because in the senior version she had the choreographic sequence in the middle of her second half jumps, which juniors don't have. Which begs the question - why don't juniors have a choreographic sequence? I can't think of any reason why and it always makes the program less enjoyable to not have it.
Juniors are restricted in so many ways to make it harder for them to get the same amount of points as a Seniors.
Hooray!! Great way to end a weekend!! Love the pink pen Dave!! Thank you TSL!!
Enjoy!
I don't even follow juniors but I'm here just to hear skating tea.
"Give her a pack of Marlboro reds, hold an edge and look sexy." LOL
Completely agree with Jonathan, already have two new bottles of Lush hand cream to combat dryness :) :)
I found it interesting that Eteri was even at Junior Worlds considering she never went during the Trusova/Kostornaia/Shcherbakova years.
@Fiona you're right that totally makes sense
2) Diana. 3) preoccupation with Alina when TSK skated in juniors. 4) Estonia is not far away from Moscow. 1) no outside rivalry and threat to the title when Anna/Sasha/ Aliona competed at JWC, while now Eteri had to ensure Kamila was in a proper shape and mood for battle with Alysa
eteri answered your questions. she were not with trusova and,sherbakova because she trained zagitova for wch 2019.
Or maybe she just likes Tallinn. The last junior worlds that she visited (2015) were also in Tallinn , she went there with Medvedeva. While in 2014 Medvedeva went to junior worlds to Bulgaria (which is also not far from Moscow) with Dudakov alone.
@@walterwyte01 except there was no threat for Kamila. If Mayia and Haen Lee had been clean, Alysa would not have medalled at all.
This makes my week!!! Thanks guys! ⛸
Our pleasure!
Honestly, I LOVE Ted’s commentary!
I know you can't seriously consider a pair a contender without triples, but unfortunately, I'm invested in Panfilova/Rylov. The speed, the size and especially lack of telegraphing(I can think of also the Chinese in this aspect, can't comment on the rest) on the throws, and those LIFTS. He is spectacular. The footwork and speed he builds throughout them is second to none- on par with Han in this specific element I daresay.
Indian Wells, a major tennis tournament in California, got cancelled tonight (Sunday) the day before the event started. Most players were pretty much in town.
You are too strict to Russian juniors: you discussed everything so detailed: even costumes, music. And you liked almost nothing. Despite all medals they won. Even the mimic of Daria makes you laugh. Wow. Thank you for such intense attention to our skaters and trainers and choreograghers. Poor Daniil Gleihengauz. So much poison is pouring on him in every video. Fortunately he has work to do and doesn’t watch every video on YT.
karce77 we actually said many positive things about them
the podium finishers are always going to get talked about more. Just take it as a compliment.
@@TheSkatingLesson well the overall impression of your conversation about them is still negative)))
Мотострелок actually just their music selection, which Danny picked. It is criticizing Danny, not them.
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Ending my Sunday with a cherry on top! Thank you for your service! 🍒❤️
You are so welcome!
Looking forward to watching. Hope you both have a great week! :)
Thank you! You too!
1:11:05 The coach had the character for 'father' (父) on her hand.
Thank you!
That symbol Yuma's coach showed . -父 means father. His father was an Olyimpian figure skater who landed jumps exactly like Yuma. 💝
TIME STAMPS IN PROGRESS (also, Gogolev broke my heart. Shame on edea)
I was hoping for a worlds preview but I imagine that’s next weekend? Either way, this is helping me get through grad school work! 😊
Next weekend, girl! Patience! So much can happen before then!
woah ok people are so quick! a bunch of people are already working on timestamps so i'm gonna hold on posting.
gonna sit back and relax with some tea :P
To be fair, yours are the best. They are copying you.
@@TheSkatingLesson aw shucks! ok i'll do 'em just for you guys :P
Maybe you folks should take turns doing time stamps. The stamper knows to focus and everyone else can relax. Dave, make a sign-up sheet... 📓
@@fazdoll THAT is a great idea! To all who do time stamps, many, many thanks!!!
The Ground Round!!!!😂😂😂
Canadian and a HUGE Michelle fan! I even loved her with short hair :-) And, I loved Sasha too!!
Bless you.
Can someone post where they talk about Michelle?
Me too! I used to always cheer them on (even more so because we didn’t have a competitive female in Canada at the time!).
Re Jonathan's question about Yuma's coach's hand: it read "father" in japanese :)
Thank you!
@@TheSkatingLesson
Yes, it was read "father". His coach wrote it on her palm (not a tattoo, she used a marker).
Firstly because Yuma's father was also one of the best figure skaters in Japan back then, secondly (it's actually deeper than the first) is that the music of Yuma's SP "Shukumei (Destiny)" is from a soundtrack of a Japanese film "Suna No Utsuwa (incorrectly translated to Castle of Sand, correctly "The Cup of Sand") (the original film was released in 1974) which is about the love and bond of a father and his son.
The main character is a famous music composer who is about to climb the social ladder by marrying a daughter of a very big name in politics.
He had a visitor, a retired police officer who knew his secret past then killed him.
His secret past is, his father is leprotic.
Back then(during or before WWll), in Japan those patients of this illness were almost forcibly sent to a sanatorium.
His father doesn't want to go there, so he roams around with his son.
One day, a police officer (later killed) find this father and son, then persuades the father to go to a sanatorium then raise the son as a foster child.
But the son leaves home to see his father but as the illness is very infectious, so he can't find or see his father.
Then someone meets this son and takes care of him.
When this son becomes an adult, his talent of composing music brooms then he becomes a social icon.
The police officer happens to find him after searching him for a long time, then visits him to take him to the sanatorium where his father is kept for decades, but the son refuses since he keeps his past secret because of the perception Japanese people has back then that Leprosy is hereditary.
After the quarrel, the son kills the police officer so that technically no one knows of his father and his past.
But the police investigates this murder then finds out who did it.
They come to the concert to arrest him where he is playing the music "Destiny (Shukumei)" with the orchestra.
This is the last scene. This film was re-made again but the original one is the best as other films, it's classic.
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IMDB
www.imdb.com/title/tt0202604/
So the music title "Destiny" is about the life of the father and the son since leprosy was thought to be uncurable back then, also the relationship of the father and the son.
@@Port712 Wow! Thank you for this wonderful gift of background information. Truly amazed.
Hold an edge and look sweaty... lol I remember Paul Wylie always skating to soundtracks. My grandma loved him!
If you want to know "what happend with Haein Lee's 3F" just take a good look at all of her jumps in slow motion (and it's better to study them by frame), especially in the combo - many of her jumps should be called UR. Just on the 3F "implicit became explicit"
OMG, this is one fabulous episode! From Pooh T-shirt guns to Adult skating...issues to how others ID who bats for which team, no matter the sport, I laughed out loud multiple times! ("That girl needs pants!"😂) Serious question now, though, w preamble: Watched ice dancing FS final, & blown away by Avonlea & Vadym. Also saw the Georgian couple who did some...acrobatic crowd pleasing stuff, BUT I think they violated ice dance rules, like she flying up & over his head, never mind the cartwheels. Any commentary or explanation happily received.
Neither of the things you cite in Kazakova/Reviya's free dance are forbidden by the rules.
Thank you!
Also, one more observation. It is interesting how much westerners feel the need to make their comments about her "serious programs". While, on the other hand, the chinese girl Yi Zhu skated to the "The Winner Take It All" cover, much more dark and serious than the original song, and nobody questions it...
02:33 am in Spain. Well, lemme grab my coffee like no work for tomorrow! 💅🏼
Eteri’s girls have the best dresses.
Agreed.
I found Ted's pressure of speech exceptionally distracting during Junior Worlds, lol. And Jonathan, my birthday is always around Worlds and I thought it was next weekend too! We are trying to rush March! Thanks as always guys.
The Quebec/Canadian government will have final say on Worlds not the ISU. They could make skaters/fans quartine before or after worlds. I'm a nurse at a Seattle hospital with a unit dedicated to covid patients. Things look entirely different when you see things in person
About USFS waiting for some wonder - the seniors are basically Asian Americans, and juniors are Russian/Ukranian: Malinin, Naumov, Kolesnik, Krasnozhon, Torgashev, etc. Gogolev in Canada... Where is the native crop? It looks like Federation doesn`t work for the future
another so good monday lunch ... love you guys you're the best !!!
Yay! Thanks TSL.
Enjoy!
16:56 and it’s happening now😳
I wonder whether someone felt the need to ask why Tracy Wilson, being former ice dancer, is coaching mostli single skaters...
The writing on Yuma's coach's hand was father, I guess to honor his father who wasn't there.
Thank you
The pair event was rough, but the winners Panfilova and Rylov have some great qualities like amazing throws. Is the US pair guy Balazs Nagy tall enough for Alexa Knierim? I think he might have the talent to pair with her but I don't know about his height. His current partner is taller than her. If I were him, I would call Alexa. There needs to be a shakeup in US pairs to get the best talent paired with the best talent. I'm hoping TJ will try out with her.
Not sure that Nagy has US citizenship. I seriously doubt it. I believe he's Hungarian.
@@vncntd3962 I read on one of the FS fan forums that Nagy already has dual Hungarian and American citizenship. He's 21.
Nagy is 5'9-1/2" according to Wiki. That's 4-1/2 inches shorter than Chris. It would be an adjustment, but when I watched his and Finster's skates at Junior Worlds, I immediately thought that he and Alexa would look good together. Then I immediately felt guilty; he might well be as reluctant to leave his partner as anyone. Interestingly, she's 5'4" ... and I haven't seen any consternation over lack of height difference. That's only 5 1/2" difference by my count. Tim is 7 inches taller than Ashley. I believe I read in an interview that Nagy's partner, Kate Finster, was without a partner for a year or more before pairing with him.
I just love Tomoe Kawabata. Hoping for her to medal even just the bronze because the gold and silver are obviously for the russians. So sad because her jumps are textbook (except for the flip edge) but has problems with consistencies .She’s also criminally underscored in pcs 😭 . What disappoints me the most is that seeing flutz ,lootz, toe-axel getting +2 goe 🤮
To me she's the representation of the state of Japanese ladies: you can still see the greatness like her 3lutz, some nice skating skills, but it's also clear she's nowhere on the level of the russians or even the koreans. Not the same consistency, the free skate is rarely skated clean, spin positions are not the best and slow: like she has a beautiful Blue Danube short program and you end the routine with THAT slow camel spin?
Because nobody looks at "technics" and "prerotation", and nobody is supposed to look at it.
Judges check only rotation on landing and edges.
I finally noticed the butterfly on Kamila’s dress. It’s like if you put AP dresses together.
Absolutely adored the USA ice dance team. She is a star! They have the "IT" factor.RE: the Canadians and Michelle, the tour group who stayed at our hotel in DC in 03..LOVED her. They were the ones who introduced me to the term SWR.
The Ground Round!! 😂😂
Nathalie also had a post defending Dujardin’s decision to work with Roman Polanski...which is also dubious, to say the least
Word
That’s absolutely making her cancelled for me.
Roman Polanski is a great cinematographer
I’m assuming they don’t allow quads and 3As in the short program because it takes a long(er) time to set up those jumps (in general) and is usually done without a transition. Just guessing though...
The most famous and dog-eared truism in figure skating: “You want s’mores? Build a fire.” Until the US finds a way to scout the juniors with the passion of Alysa to put in the work we have no chance. The quality of the coaches, ice, and analytics won’t mean much in the international arena as we continue falling behind looking for a short cut or magic hack.
Lobbying the ISU for rule changes to hurt the Russians seems to work out if the current set of rule changes is ratified and in use soon.
I'm waiting for a jump sequence with a double (or triple) Euler in it!
The Japanese junior ladies are in a bit of a tailspin right now, and with Kawabata and Kawabe both absolutely tanking the free skate, Japan's JGP allotment for ladies plummeted from fourteen to six total (plus two host spots, since there's a home JGP next season).
Canadian junior dance also lost half its JGP spots without Lajoie/Lagha, who singlehandedly kept Canada in the top three countries for the past three Junior Worlds; but since one of the countries ahead is Georgia, which has basically no teams, I expect most of those spots will be released for use by France and Canada, the next two countries, so that won't end up being as bad.
Japan has had a tough few years in junior ladies
where did the rumor of avonley and vadym getting married come from?
Amish Paradise would really avoid these kinds of problems, plus he would be a legend
Edea needs to get their s**t together. This is getting ridiculous.
I'm a showqueen, who also hates Oliver & loves Smash! Have you been to Don't Tell Mamma's? It was a hella lot of fun! People get up to sing, but their pros, with their sheet music binder, so they'revl pros who give a real show.
I loved the Alexa and Chris interview. Their relationship appears healthy and supportive. Jenny really brought it with the questions and it ended up being so emotional! Also, is it just me or are music choices this season the worst they’ve ever been?
I really think Starr needs a new coaching team and she needs them now. Maybe Raf or Brian would be good for her? She really needs help with her jumps. I would also like to see some better choreography. I'm not hating on her current coaching team, I just think that at this point in her career, she needs more help than they can give her. I really like Starr and I would be so sad if she doesn't make it. She does have a 'star quality' about her.
I agree. She seems overlooked all the time, and needs better backing or something.
Won't help, too late.
She needed to switch coaching teams 2 years ago after reaching senior nationals. 2019 was her chance to really break out, but she fell 4 places instead. And then she dropped again this year.
I really like Starr and what she represents for the sport, but she is in a rough spot and she’s about 4-5 years too late to be working out how to do a triple lutz. Her flip is wonky too.
Why did you decide that Eteri does not teach jumping? Eteri trained Shelepen long before Dudakov came to her group. That's because of such superficial judgments, the superficial schemes that you constantly use, it is difficult to take you 100% seriously.
I live for the opening 10 min on every tis and that.
I liked all first five juniors, they are all spectacular, Haein needs more practice and Maya needs to learn how to jump, Alysa and Kamila are grand,though Daria has improved also, though I think she can''t beat Alysa if she lands her quads. On corona virus, the number of infected people world-wide is now lower compared to those that recovered than in mid February, or even earlier last week, so the virus is still spreading, on a daily, but it also seems that it is being contained with more people recovering than those infected.
They should talk about Evgeniaa trip to Mexico and teaching a class
Anaeli Villarreal what about it?
Seems quite standard.
The World championships start Monday 16th so a week from today.
Sure, Malade by Laura Fabian is about overused in figure skating, but I think it's a good match, even an excellent one for Daria. Nice to hear your positive comments about her as I like her quite much. I have a hard time hearing any criticism of Kamila, but maybe that's just me. Entertaining overall, certainly.
Daria is the Bobek of this era!
If you need help with some of the translation, I’m bilingual German/English and I’ld be glad to help out 😊
One of the most memorable moments in ladies: Alysa's gorg back outside loop at the beginning of her StSq
I find Daria much more special than Kamila.
Alysa has such a beautiful and underrated biellman spin.
And this is why I skate Riedell and not Edea :P
If there's health concerns they should do what they are doing in Italy with sporting events which is have the events without an audience. It takes from the glamour but safety first. And I feel if it where only athletes, technical stuff, isu officials (the minimum) and volunteers (the minimum) it should be safe.
How dare you make such assumptions that are not based on anything - "Eteri doesn't go out on the ice every day" (40.08). What's wrong with you? This is worst kind of gossip.
I am not liking Natalie P. She seems to be a conniving person who played a bunch of games to get the presidency. I appreciate there is some politics and she is trying to play the game but I am don't trust her. I do not like "schemers".
As for Morgan even before the allegation he has always had a lot of "shirtless" player type photos. I am surprised his people (PR) didn'try to make him look so "Chachi" so much like a player. All his photos seem to be somewhat suggestive; I know he is athletically built but i don't think this is the time to focus on it.
Nathalie has "everything" to be a great president ... and I mean "everything" !!! and we love her
It probably is undetected in the US no one can afford to go to hospital or the doctor
Did you guys clock Danny G’s hair transplant surgery?
No, what she we be looking out for?
TheSkatingLesson in the front of his hairline there is a ring of new hair growing in. It looks like a ring of buzzed hairs in front of his normal hairline. That is 💯 from hair transplant surgery. I noticed it in the kiss and cry of the free skates.
Now that you’ve mentioned it. I can’t not notice it. He looks like Frankenstein!
And why should it bother you??
Loving it.
Ashley thanked Johnny Weir via IG for connecting her with a NJ stylist for her new hair color. Maybe she'd been contemplating a change for some time, for less maintenance. That would be my guess, notwithstanding your insinuations about anything else going with Ashley. Someone should make a tally sheet of how many, or how few TSL insinuations actually pan out.
who did alexa have a tryout with?
On Patreon
It hasnt really gotten to Canada yet. So i think worlds has the green light.
Angel I would be so sure about that. The International Ice Hockey Federation cancelled the women's under 18 worlds scheduled for later this month in Easter Canada. I don't think its solely based on whether the virus is in Canada it also on the in flux of people from other countries coming to the event.
Desirae Graham and the spread is exponential! We went from 0-1600 in 10 days in Germany
Colette Robichaud I feel for all parties involved. The people trying to demonize Skate Canada and the ISU for wanting to continue are forgetting the amount of time, money and effort put in to the event and the skaters who have also put time, money, practice and energy into their preparation. I'm not sure if they can postpone (the Bell Centre should be available since the Canadiens aren't in the play offs).
Desirae Graham cancelling it is smart risk management
Colette Robichaud I agree it is the right thing to do however, I don't think there were any ill intentions from Skate Canada and the ISU delaying cancelling. The decision was not to be taken lightly. There is a lot on the line for all parties involved.
I've competed against Steven Trzaska at Adult Nationals.
nothing is more relaxing than watching haein lee skating. but in this cruel world of quads and triple axles she will have a big problem in the future if she wants to stand on the podium. she is 14 and that's her last chance to master any of the above skills . but hysterical triple axles and quads will destroy her tranquility which is her greatest and special quality .
eteri please don’t go into ice dance. imagine an ice dance program choreographed by daniil. imagine the pantomime hands. no thank you.
Pantomime hands in those stupid Eteri girl gloves!
She'd probably work with her friend Zhulin, or best case scenario she sends more russians to Igor Shpilband and Pasquale Camerlengo.
Personally i hope it goes the opposite way: Eteri is impressed with Pasquale's choreography for her daughter that she sends all her students to him to choreograph new programs. Probably won't happen.
@@gillian8294 lmao
darias prob malade abt not having a quad or 3A yet
Hey Ted Barton is a Kiwi-Canuck... :)
I do not understand Lyu's strategy. why they do not do a 3-3 combo instead of Axel-Toe in the 2nd half! The points will be higher! As for Ted, I am so tired him say TUTBERETSEE, I want to vomit. He pronounced Nika Egadze's surname exactly like that. It is DZE and it means son. I even commented on Ted photo on his instagram to change the way he says that. It sounds just ridiculous.
David Lease, I have a serious question for you. Do you think people are too hard on the U.S women of the last 12 years. In fairness none of them are as great or most importantly as consistent (the main ingredient to success in the sport, the mentally toughest skater wins as much as the most talented one) as Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski, or probably even Sasha Cohen and Sarah Hughes in their primes. Then again I think people overlook that the competition level outside of the U.S is insane and way harder than those girls had. Take Michelle Kwan for instance. Her only real competition most of her career was Slutskaya, and Slutskaya beat her fairly often in their careers, Michelle was a bit lucky Irina tended to underperform in worlds/Olympics. Well today Russia in a typical year has 3 or 4 women as good or better than Slutskaya, honestly better really, but I guess it isn't fair to compare things like difficulty from a time long ago past, but Slutskaya was basically just a technical skater only with hardly any artistry, and in a typical year 3 or 4 Russian girls atleast are blowing away what she used to do in jump content, ease and precise execution of difficult 3/3s, and consistency. Or take the great Kristi Yamaguchi for instance, her only real competition was Ito, I don't even count Harding who was only great for a 1 year window really, the 2nd half of the 90/91 season and first half of the 91/92 season. Well again U.S girls today face atleast 5 women from Russia or Japan combined who are comparably difficult to face, not as powerful or spectacular as Ito the greatest jumper ever at her best maybe, but Ito was on the downside of her career when Kristi became her real rival, and inconsistent and injury proned too.
Put Wagner and Gold when Cohen competed for instance. I honestly think even with Gold being a headcase and Wagner's more limited talents and also not being totally consistent herself, looking at their sets of performances in worlds/Olympics even with the mistakes they probably could have maybe matched Cohen's output of 3 or 4 world/Olympic medals, with a non gold Olympic medal perhaps. Gold's 4th place performances in Sochi which are probably the best she dealth with the pressure of a big event, would medal most Olympics, although usually wouldn't win gold but Cohen didn't either. And could have possibly won the Olympic Sarah Hughes won honestly which lets face it was pretty weak.
I don't think people take into account this much harder international competition that the past greats Yamaguchi and Kwan, and lesser greats like Cohen did not face. Let alone the ones before them like Hamill and Fleming who lets face it faced even less quality competition. What are your thoughts.
I feel like Eteri should coach the Indian dance team from the JGP - they were already attempting side by side jumps in their free dance why not try some quads in there? 😂
you can laugh at it but do not even doubt she would make champions of them if she wants to
gain is not pronounced 'gen' so against.... * shrug *
I guess my wifi isn't working or Im being marked as spam for my time stamps soooooo
Nina Tian appreciate the effort
Ich kann Deutsch/Englisch uebersetzen. ☺
is there a restriction on japanese fans?