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James Min shared a 4T landed in practice via Instagram story from the Cricket club in Toronto - more practice jump clips (4T, 3A, 3Lz+3Lo) from November: https://www.instagram.com/p/CWuFCfnslpw/
This event has been unlike the others and it was really frustrating having to trying to compete for the Olympic spot I earned again, a week and a half ahead of the Olympic Games. Unfortunately, that was a stressful factor, I mean, I felt really confident, but you never know what anyone can do on the day. Unfortunately, as far as this event is concerned, a lot of focus is wasted. You go out to do the best you can, unfortunately I had it in my mind and my focus was to come here and to do a certain job.
It’s been happening for a few years. I withdrew from the Worlds last year because I had a really bad bone stress injury. About a week ago my left leg started to really, really hurting. I spoke to the coaches, and we went to see a doctor, we did an x-ray and they kind of gave me an ultimatum “listen, we are not saying it will break, but it certainly could at any moment, so you can either stop competing now, rest the leg or we going to have to change how we’ve been training and to be very, very careful”. We pulled back on practicing quads, I’m on the ice for no more than 20 minutes at a time now, and lots of ice (for the leg), I walk around, I don’t do anything, I go to the rink, I warm-up, I skate, that’s it.
Judging by that link, the AOC still thinks ice dance includes compulsories and original dances. Maybe they need to update their info, and their graphics?It's official now (Jan. 24):
Figure Skaters Kailani Craine and Brendan Kerry selected to Australian 2022 Winter Olympic Team
Figure skaters Kailani Craine and Brendan Kerry have been announced as the final athletes selected by the Australian Olympic Committee, with the pair to co...www.olympics.com.au
Figure skaters Kailani Craine and Brendan Kerry have been announced as the final athletes selected by the Australian Olympic Committee, with the pair to contest the men's and women's individual events in Beijing.
A wonderful honour representative of his decade-long career at the senior international and championship level. Well done, Brendan.Brendan is going to be one of Australia's flag bearers in the opening ceremony! Perks of being a three-time Olympian...
It was! Isn’t it sad, though, that it garnered him no higher than 17th place? A neighbor-friend (casual viewer who watches FS rarely) who joined us to watch loved Brendan most…it was very hard for me to explain why that great performance was deemed 16th best free (17th overall).I legit teared up watching Brendan tear up after that amazing FS. What a performance!
Never say never, as Steven Bradbury would say.Did y'all see the OBS coverage where Olly Hogben excitedly proclaimed Kerry to be sitting in the gold medal position after he skated? That was fun - and funny to be sure since - well the obvious. Also probably not really appropriate as this is supposed to be an unbiased international feed, but although I am not Australian I am fine with it. To me this was much like Paul Wylie's Olympic moment. Congrats Brendan!
I think it was intentional - @Orm Irian commented in the "Non-Russian skaters training in Russia" thread that Brendan wasn't currently in Moscow and had been crossed off the ISA's Int'l Assignments spreadsheet for Worlds. Probably still dealing with his leg injury.I don't see Brendan Kerry on the entry list for Men at Worlds, while Craine, Golubeva/Giotopolous Moore, and Harris/Chan are in their disciplines. I apologize if I've missed this, but is this intentional, or could it be a missed entry into the ISU system?
If true hopefully we fans eventually will get a formal announcement from ISA or he’ll let us know via his social media.I think Brendan has retired.
What passport does Anastasia have? May have something to do…Hektor and Anastasia are off the list of entries for Worlds. Does anyone know if they're okay?