Worlds 2024 Women FS: ‘Where Have All The Knitters Gone?’

[Rukia]

This is a complete miss for me but also I don't like Elvis lol

 

[peibeck]

Love Josefin's skating, edgework and presentation. Hate Elvis. Sigh.

 

[Jay42]

The costume is fun and playful, but something about the belt placement doesn't work. It's too low or something. @Karen-W probably could explain it.

It would be better if it was a catsuit. Using the belt to give it a skirt look just makes her proportions look funky.

 

[Simone411]

Honey she's got spunk and is fun to watch! Way to go! Whoop!

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Elvis is so not what I was hoping for from Josefin

 

[tony]

I found the pockets of back and forth between jumps to really stand out in this program. It's almost the same layout year after year for her but the choreography just doesn't hold up in the rest of it to not keep the jumping emptiness from being glaring.

She's off the charts creative, but this is a total disappointment as a competitive program.

 

[Carolla5501]

This is a complete miss for me but also I don't like Elvis lol

I like Elvis and this is still a complete mess. The skating seems sloppy. The costume is weird. I know Tonya and Mark think this was fun Fun fun but I think it was sloppy, sloppy sloppy.

 

[skatingguy]

Josefin TALJEGARD
Coach: Maria Taljegard, Malin Taljegard
Music: Heartbreak Hotel, Trouble, Jailhouse Rock

3Lz
3F< - tight landing, 3-turn exit
3Tq+2T
3S+2Lo
Fly Camel Spin 4
Choreo Sequence
3S< - tight landing, piked forward
2Aq
2A<
Change Foot Sit Spin 4 (3 after review)
Step Sequence 4 (3 after review)
Change Foot Combo Spin 4

Great program, and performance, but not the quality of jump elements in this program that she had in the short program.

105.92 = 7th Place
167.47 = 6th Place

 

[Jay42]

I found the pockets of back and forth between jumps to really stand out in this program. It's almost the same layout year after year for her but the choreography just doesn't hold up in the rest of it to not keep the jumping emptiness from being glaring.

She's off the charts creative, but this is a total disappointment as a competitive program.

Especially when you consider how good her SP is.

 

[thvu]

Did Mark really say that 3flip is in as clean?

Seriously, it was < in real time.

 

[Desperado]

Babies! Snore.

 

[peibeck]

Lol at Tonia " ... for her."

Disappointed to see Schild ahead of Schizas. Judges may want to reconsider that one over the summer.

It's because of Schizas' TES. She should have gotten salchows done.

 

[Matryeshka]

Oh, Mark, I disagree with you so much. Her presentation should well be under Kurakova's as well. Just because you wear a Barbie Ninja outfit and skate to Elvis doesn't mean you get presentation points.

 

[Jarrett]

Elvis is one musician that I can never get behind. No matter who skates to it. It is trash to my ears.

 

[thvu]

I found the pockets of back and forth between jumps to really stand out in this program. It's almost the same layout year after year for her but the choreography just doesn't hold up in the rest of it to not keep the jumping emptiness from being glaring.

She's off the charts creative, but this is a total disappointment as a competitive program.

I just told Mr. thvu "We love her. She doesn't have the jumps, but we don't care. She skated to the soundtrack of The Joker as THE JOKER. This is a Josefin house."

 

[Karen-W]

The costume is fun and playful, but something about the belt placement doesn't work. It's too low or something. @Karen-W probably could explain it.

You're right - it's accentuating her hips - and she's not some slender stick - she has a stocky build similar to Kaori. I generally find her costumes don't really flatter her. It isn't just the belt placement with this one though - the extra-wide collar and the piping along her hollow (shoulders to armpits diagonal above the breasts) makes her look even boxier.

 

[skatingguy]

Olga MIKUTINA
Age: 20
Personal Best: 131.59
Season Best: 109.75
Current Rank: 16
Music: The Curse by Agnes Obel
Dawn Of Faith (The OA Part II Trailer Music) by Eternal Eclipse, Thomas-Adam Habuda
Coach: Elena Romanova, Galit Chait, Alexei Bychenko, Evgeni Krasnopolski

2024 National Champion. Placed 19th at 2023 WCh, 14th at 2022 WCh & 8th in her debut at 2021 WCh, the best result for an Austrian lady in 24 years. Ranked 14th at 2022 OWG. Finished 8th at 2014 ECh, her best result after coming 12th at 2023 ECh, 15th at 2022 ECh & 24th at 2020 ECh. Was 18th at 2019 WJCh. Ranked 5th at Budapest Trophy & 9th at Golden Spin 2023. Won Swiss Open 2023. Born in Ukraine but moved to Austria when she was 12 years old. Relocated to the USA for studying in fall 2023.

 

[Rukia]

I just told Mr. thvu "We love her. She doesn't have the jumps, but we don't care. She skated to the soundtrack of The Joker as THE JOKER. This is a Josefin house."

you need to put that on a plaque

 

[Wyliefan]

Some of you were not brought up by an Elvis-adoring Baby Boomer mom and it shows.

 

[MacMadame]

Stupid people being stupid. I missed a bunch of skaters trying to fix their stupidity and now I'm super-annoyed.

 

[Jay42]

I really hope the new coaching team means Olga will have a new FS next season.

 

[Badams]

Olga's dress is kind of fabulous as well.

 

[tony]

Some of you were not brought up by an Elvis-adoring Baby Boomer mom and it shows.

And thank God for that.

 

[MacMadame]

Oh, Mark, I disagree with you so much. Her presentation should well be under Kurakova's as well. Just because you wear a Barbie Ninja outfit and skate to Elvis doesn't mean you get presentation points.

Wrong. It absolutely does. Also, Elvis is King. He just is.

Hey, I don't make the rules.

 

[Sally1214]

Josefin gave that performance her all, so kudos to her. But, I just couldn't help thinking back to Elvis Stojko skating to The King in exhibition performances whilst lip-syncing on his air guitar. Awwww ..... memories (not all necessarily good ones) ... the nostalgia of it all.

 

[Rukia]

Some of you were not brought up by an Elvis-adoring Baby Boomer mom and it shows.

no i had to listen to the zydeco music hour every sunday on am radio and honestly a zydeco program would slay

 

[quartz]

Ima gonna scream pretty soon from all this dreary dismal crap music.

 

[Desperado]

Olga's dress is kind of fabulous as well.

The lack of skin tone illusion fabric and the colour, get high marks from me.

 

[quartz]

Some of you were not brought up by an Elvis-adoring Baby Boomer mom and it shows.

I was brought up on Beethoven.

 

[Karen-W]

The lack of skin tone illusion fabric and the colour, get high marks from me.

But what about the gloved sleeves? Surely that takes away some of the positive GOE.