Elisaveta Tuktamisheva wins the ladies'
competition with 173.10. Elisaveta was clean overall, but fell on the
triple flip, not her favourite jump. She did triple lutz-triple toe,
another triple lutz, single axel-triple toe, triple loop, triple
salchow-triple toeloop and a double axel. She had quite good
components (54.80) earning 7.04 on skating skills.
Adelina Sotnikova had a disappointing
free (the third in the ranking) but managed a second finish (159.08).
She found back her triple lutz-triple loop, but that was wrong edge
and slightly under rotated. Then she did a triple flip, double
axel-double toe, single flip, triple salchow-double toe, single loop
and double axel.
Li Zijun earned the bronze medal with
157.70. She did triple flip-double toe, double axel-triple toe-double
toe (a trademark combination), triple lutz, triple salchow-double
toeloop, triple flip, triple lutz and double axel. Amazing the final
layback, level four and +1 goe.
why is it that li zijun doesn't get more GOEs on her jumps? I think they look really clean and light and airy, like Mao's in 2004 and 2005. Liza seems to have the same style of jumping but gets higher GOEs. I love Liza. I'm just confused why bigger jumps seem to be rewarded so much. And why Zijun seems so underscored to me.
ReplyDeletethanks for commenting! well, I love both Li and Elizaveta and I think their jumps are just amazing. They have very different style, even in jumping: Liza has speed going into her jumps, she rotates fast and her running edge is very deep. Li, instead, is a typical Asian jumper, her jumps are high and she has a very light flow landing them. The problem about Li is that sometimes she under-rotates jumps or has a wrong take-off edge. For those kind of mistakes you are surely going to receive a negative goe (according to the rule), which is such a pity, she she should work on it. Actually, after reading your comment, I checked all liza's and Li's goe for jumps at yog free skate and made a sort of comparison. Liza received 1.79 points overall more than Li, so I do not see such a difference
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