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It was okay...nothing to write home about.
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No, U.S. Figure Skating seems to be holding tightly to the qualification model of make it or miss it at Nationals.
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3 This year...down to two for 2012 :-(
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Jeremy Abbott and Armin Mahbanoozadeh!
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Yes...from Greensboro!
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This is a team I am very impressed by.
First, I think anytime you are training with the reigning Olympic Gold and Silver Medalists...it's a good thing!
Their dances this season are slick especially their Free Dance. You can tell they've taken a lot of time to make sure they are going after the highest levels and they are doing it with a performance level that far exceeds their age. They are well ahead of the curve.
In general I think this team is destined for big things. In their Senior Debut this season they've captured medals at both their events and I think they have clearly established themselves as the #2 U.S. Dance Team. World and Olympic Medals, if they stay injury free, I think are inevitable. -
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Full disclaimer...HUGE @jeremyabbottpcf FAN so likely a biased answer is ahead...
I don't think he's in any trouble. All skaters have gone through equipment issues. While it is an annoyance, most are prepared to handle it and I think Jeremy is no different. Even now he has, for the most part, worked out those problems.
Who hasn't received his SP well...I thought it has been very well received? I for one LOVE it and it seemed like the judges at NHK liked it too. His only deduction was on a silly spin issue. Crowds at All That Skate in Korea ate it up. I think his SP is easily one of the best out there.
Certainly we can't call a silver medal at a Grand Prix event a "rough" start, right?
As for the quad, it isn't like Jeremy is starting from scratch with this jump, he's been doing it for years. So even with limited training time, once the boot issues are corrected he can just reintroduce it to his program, polish it up, and I think it's all good. -
If her performance at the Japan Open was any indication...absolutely.
I think she is coming off a very tough season last year. It took I think everything she had and then some to get to where she was at the Olympics and Worlds and that has to take a toll.
But nonetheless she is the front runner and I think it's her's to win or lose (basically any competition she enters). But I have a really hard time calling any skater unbeatable. -
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I think it's early in the season and probably having not trained much a quad would have been a bit much to expect.
But wasn't Daisuke's a beauty!?!?!
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Yup.
They went on to win three more U.S.Dance Titles in 96, 97, and 98. They competed at the 1998 Nagano Olympics placing 7th and ended their amateur careers at the 1998 World Championships in Minneapolis where they finished 6th.
They skated professional for a bit on the Champions on Ice tour. They had a kid in 2003. Liz teaches at the Detroit Skating Club and I think she works with Alissa Czisny. -
Wow good question!
The first thing I guess you have to do is evaluate the possibility even if Evan and Emily were competing. They finished 9th at Worlds in Turin and two of the teams they finished behind aren't competing this season so you have to think it would happen easy.
But when you take Emily and Evan out of the equation it becomes tricky.
The next question is, besides Davis and White, who gets the the other two spots in Tokyo? I think it's between three teams: Chock and Zuerlein, Shibutani and Shibutani, and Hubbell and Hubbell.
Barring disaster, none of those three teams I feel can get past Virtue/Moir, Davis/White, Pechalat/Bourzat, Kerr/Kerr, Crone/Poirier, Bobrova/Soloviev, Hoffman/Zavozin, or Cappellini/Lanotte at this point in their careers. That's 8 teams so the highest finish one might expect from a second U.S. Ice Dance Team at Worlds is 9th.
The other piece of this equation is Davis and White. You have to, at this point, assume they will finish 1st or 2nd at Worlds. Let's say 2nd as Virtue and Moir will be in the mix. That mean's for the U.S. to keep three spots, another U.S. team must finish no lower than 11th in Tokyo (12th if Davis and White were to win).
That gives that second U.S. team about a three spot wiggle room to slip in there. Other teams in the 'wiggle' area include: Carron and Jones of France, Mysliveckova and Novak of Czech Republic, and Reed and Reed of Japan. Those three teams are very evenly matched with the three American teams I mentioned.
It will be important to keep an eye on the Grand Prix this season to see how those other American teams compete against the 'wiggle room' teams. Carron and Jones will compete with Chock and Zuerlein at Skate Canada and Trophee Lalique. Mysliveckova and Novak will take on the Shibutani's at NHK Trophy and the Hubbell's at Cup of Russia. The Reed's will also face off against the Shibutani's at both NHK Trophy (that competition will tell us a lot!) and Skate America.
My gut tells me that U.S. Ice Dancing is strong enough to keep it's three spots but it wont be the walk its been the past couple seasons...we're going to have to work for it this time. -
Christina Gao and Agnes Zawadzki.
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Her Nutcracker Free from the 2005-2006 Season. It showcases everything that is great about her skating. Her glide to the edge, the natural bounce she has as she travels across the ice, her posture in her jumps, and her lyrical (and not overdone) use of her arms.
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Time will tell. As a singles skater Fedor has shown, at times, great promise and Jana had some success of her own with Sergei. I think Jana is the strength of the team and if Fedor can, at the least, meet her at her level they stand a chance at being successful. There are lots of up-and-coming dance teams in Russia right now (see Junior Grand Prix Dance Results!) so they need to work fast!
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He is also coaching Christina Gao who competes at the elite level. He has many students he works with at the cricket club in Toronto.
I don't feel the situation with Yuna will scare off prospective students. I think ultimately you have to look at results and he has been very good at molding skaters who produce solid results.
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