World Figure Skating Championships 2014

Oh no. Hae Jin   
Fell on 3F and popped the 3Lz.

I loved Natalia Popova's costume! The colour especially!

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Eliska Breskinova is up, and she did a beautiful 2A-tano2T(?)! I love her knee bend and running edge in her jump landings! Good speed in the inside-outside edge arabesque spiral. She looks in good form, but she looks tired in the second half of her LP. Not bad.

thanks for all the links!
I have two windows opened, watching the hahabar link with sound off and sound on with the link ballerinamao provided...the lengths we go to watch mao hahahha

emory903 wrote:

thanks for all the links!
I have two windows opened,  watching the hahabar link with sound off and sound on with the link ballerinamao provided...the lengths we go to watch mao hahahha

Yes, same here  

so the new trend now is boots half covered? am i the only onewho's distracted by that?
but great skate by eliska

Haha yes I seem to notice a lot of skaters using the half-covered boots these days.

And Joshi has a great skate too! She looks absolutely thrilled! 107.95, total of 162.91.

So Youn Park had a very good skate too. 1st for now. I prefer her to than Kim Hae Jin. Brooklee Han is skating now. Just fell...

So Youn did great! 119.39, total of 176.61. Is that her personal best?
She has an interesting leg pull up technique for her I-spin.

Brooklee's spins are well-centered as usual, but her jumps are just... Let's say she has a bad technique, but has a good landing position.

So Youn was great!   

I found out that if your in a country which isn't allowed to see the ISU stream which has the best quality no doubt, use google chrome for your browser, than use this:
https://hola.org/
Choose Brazil for in settings then access the ISU stream again:
http://livemanager.eurovision.edgesuite.net/isu/site/index.html

And then, it'll work!  
Hidemyass didn't work but this works brilliantly!  

I like how So Youn attacked her program, I see a lot of Yuna in her, with a lot more cross overs

Brooklee - I feel like she starts her rotations with her head?

Argh! There must be a rut on the ice (or maybe not) that Zijun tripped and fell on. She was doing well before that. :-(

Really loud cheers from the audience for Zijun!

Love how she owlishly blinks her eyes at the beginning of her program. Heeheehee!

Random fall. How slippery the ice is! I think she missed a jumping pass? A step out from a 3Lz, saved 3Lo, wobbly 2A, but goes on to finish her program with a one-handed Biellmann spin. She looks really bummed out. 150.34.

the eurosport commentators keeps trying to suggest something is going on between Zijun and her coach, they did that also during her short too

it did look like there was something on the ice during her skate but couldn't see anything in the slow-mo

emory903 wrote:

the eurosport commentators keeps trying to suggest something is going on between Zijun and her coach, they did that also during her short too

it did look like there was something on the ice during her skate but couldn't see anything in the slow-mo

Maybe they know something we don't    that was heartbreaking for zi jun she was soo good when she started and then she just lost confidence, that fall most have shocked her

Reminds me of Mao in Vancouver Olys. The fall looks painful to me.

Gabrielle Daleman fell on a jump too, but earned an SB of 164.78 total score. 12 points off the lead.

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The rink is PACKED!

Did anybody else see the man in a Doraemon costume holding 2 Mao fans (one pink and one blue)?   

Abdiel wrote:

Did anybody else see the man in a Doraemon costume holding 2 Mao fans (one pink and one blue)?   

Yes :p Japanese fans are mad but so cuuute :3

Oh wow, what a competition this has been so far.
So Youn  What can I say, I absolutely love this girl. Hopefully she'll crack top 10, this way Korea gets 2 spots next season, and she'd get 2 GP spots.

Zijun...I wish she hadn't given up after that fall. Chris suggested it was due to her left foot not being turned out enough so it got cought. I hope she isn't retiring, there were reports earlier this season that she's strugling with motivation.

I am soooooo happy for Anna/Luca. I haven't watched the competition, will watch it later on Eurosport, but I can't wait to see this. And it was so close between them and the Canadians.
I'm really sorry for the french team. This must be devastating for them.

Does anyone know why Bobrova/Sloviev WD?

About I/K, there are alot of rumours. Some are saying it was Elena's suggestion, she wants to pursue movie career, some are speculating that she's getting married to Morozov... We'll see. The fact is, the relationship between Lena and Nikita was very difficult most of the time, so I can understand it why he'd want to end it, but I do hope the report where Elena was oblivious to this is not true. I am puzzled though at why would Nikita want to stay with Morozov?! This would be a great chance to go to someone better.

I can't wait for Mao to skate. I'm in a very strange place today. I'm not nervous, but I'm not calm either.    I just hope so much she'll have a clean skate and then it's up to the judges.

Go Mao! Just enjoy it, and show us what you're made off. Forget about everything else.  

Go kana!!!!!

what a performance by kanako, the one I liked the most soo far

what is with the TES for kanako?

poor kanako alot of underroations...

kana tech keeps falling    nooooooooo

She sounded like she was crying in that last shot of her in the K&C....oh no

Ouch. Kanako must have been hit with a couple of URs or low GOE. Only 51.69 for TES, 111.58 for the total score.

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On a different note, I got another star! Triple Flip!

Some of Kana's jumps looked tilted from up here I was afraid she might fall. What happened to the Kana of nationals? Polina on the ice now.