2026 Europeans - Women Free Skate - "You Can Leave Your Splat On"

[terisa]

I'm giving Josefin and Celine Dion a Canadian standing ovation in my living room!

I'm giving her an American one, and also a tear or two for her reaction. ETA: Damn I'm getting soppy in my old age

 

[Karen-W]

Oh dear... Chris is telling us that the first three jumping passes all have rotation calls.

 

[Jay42]

My husband wants to know, if Josefin can skate that great, why is she in the first group? I didn't see her SP so I assume she fell on a jump or something?

She got nailed on rotation calls

 

[Asli]

youtube is live

In which country is the youtube feed available p
lease, Hedwig? I've tried even Brasil and Australia, but it says the video isn't available in that location.

 

[miffy]

If Kristen really can’t do 3t, 3s or 2a due to injury I wonder if she’ll even be ok for the Olympics it’s such a shame after she did so well at Euros & Worlds last year.

 

[floridaice]

what is Kristen's injury

 

[beepbeep]

In which country is the youtube feed available p
lease, Hedwig? I've tried even Brasil and Australia, but it says the video isn't available in that location.

Brazil is a go.
I’m watching without issues

 

[Hanna]

I'm a few minutes behind and catching up but my god if Josefin's performance isn't exactly what I want from skating. So few performances nowadays evoke these feelings. This is IT. If only more skaters performed from the heart like this.

 

[Jay42]

In which country is the youtube feed available p
lease, Hedwig? I've tried even Brasil and Australia, but it says the video isn't available in that location.

I’m in Canada and it’s working

 

[Hedwig]

Kristen Spours
hard to imagine how to skate if you cannot feel your left leg
brave for her to skate at all. or slightly insane

3z fall
3l
3f << fall
3l euler 2 flip
3flip 1a
I wondered how she would include the required axel jump
2flip 2l
2lutz
obiously not the skate she wanted but under the circumstances it is probably more than okay for her and she will look back on this happy

 

[MacMadame]

Kristin's situation is a good argument for having more freedom in the free skate as to what elements to do. Then she could have replaced some of those jumps with spins and footwork and not risk making her injury worse and having a more satisfying skate.

 

[Hedwig]

In which country is the youtube feed available p
lease, Hedwig? I've tried even Brasil and Australia, but it says the video isn't available in that location.

I had to travel all the way to Bolivia

 

[skatingguy]

Kristen Spours
Rank after SP: 22
Coach: Christopher Boyadji, Lloyd Jones
Music: Warriors by 2WEI

3Lzq - fall
3Lo
3F< - fall
3Lo+1Eu+2F
Step Sequence 3
3F+1A+SEQ
2F+2Lo
2Lz!
Flying Camel Spin 3
Sit Spin 2
Choreo Sequence
Change Foot Combo Spin 2 (2V after review)

Brave performance given the injury to the left leg preventing her from doing several jump types.

-2.00 = Falls
86.44 = 2nd Place
137.14 = 2nd Place

 

[Hanna]

In which country is the youtube feed available p
lease, Hedwig? I've tried even Brasil and Australia, but it says the video isn't available in that location.

Algeria works for me.

 

[Karen-W]

If Kristen really can’t do 3t, 3s or 2a due to injury I wonder if she’ll even be ok for the Olympics it’s such a shame after she did so well at Euros & Worlds last year.

I was wondering, myself, if this might be a situation where she does the TE SP and then withdraws from the women's event. GBR wouldn't be able to replace her with Povey in that scenario, but it would make Kristen an Olympian (and get Mia Risa Gomez into the women's event as the 1st alternate).

 

[my little pony]

how is she even doing what she is doing without feeling in her leg? when my foot falls asleep I just fall right over doing nothing

 

[Hanna]

I don't think I've ever seen a program without any salchows and toes in my life. Even coming up with content without them is a big ask! Good for you, Kristen! The music is very fitting for her situation. And still giving the chsq everything. :kickass.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Kristin's situation is a good argument for having more freedom in the free skate as to what elements to do. Then she could have replaced some of those jumps with spins and footwork and not risk making her injury worse and having a more satisfying skate.

This - I hate how prescribed the "free" skate currently is.

 

[Karen-W]

Goodness... This first group is uninspiring.

 

[Lanie]

Kristen's practices were iffy. With her injury and healing from her surgery, right, it's brave of her to be here. A shame too since I really enjoyed watching her at Worlds.

 

[Hedwig]

Julia Lovrencic
beautiful 3z2toe
3flip fall
3z2t2l - was tilted from the start but fought through it
2a
3toe step out
3toe ur and fall
very cautious 2z1a seq

 

[TAHbKA]

In which country is the youtube feed available p
lease, Hedwig? I've tried even Brasil and Australia, but it says the video isn't available in that location.

Israel

 

[Kateri]

I'm a few minutes behind and catching up but my god if Josefin's performance isn't exactly what I want from skating. So few performances nowadays evoke these feelings. This is IT. If only more skaters performed from the heart like this.

You don't have to give her all the marks for everything else, but if you're not giving her 10s for Performance then I have no idea what else you even want.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

In which country is the youtube feed available p
lease, Hedwig? I've tried even Brasil and Australia, but it says the video isn't available in that location.

Israel definitely works.

 

[skatingguy]

Julija Lovrencic
Rank after SP: 21
Coach: Spela Lovrencic
Music: Spartacus Suite No. 2 by A. Khatchaturian

3Lz+2T
3F< - fall
3Lz!q+2T+2Lo - rotation, sloppy landing
2A
Flying Change Foot Combo Spin 2 (4 after review)
3T - stumbled out
3T<+REP - fall
2Lz+1A+SEQ
Choreo Sequence
Step Sequence 3
Change Foot Combo Spin 3
Layback Spin 4

Julija needs to work on moving the jumps away from the boards to give herself more space, and time. A nice performance quality that worked well with the music.

-2.00 = Falls
88.99 = 2nd Place
140.70 = 2nd Place

 

[MacMadame]

I want Julia to have a costume with a more striking color. Maybe something jeweled. Or at least a deeper purple.

 

[Hanna]

Lovrencic with a really nice opening lutz. And headgear rivaling the Koreans.

But there's just no excuse for those tights.

 

[Vagabond]

In which country is the youtube feed available p
lease, Hedwig? I've tried even Brasil and Australia, but it says the video isn't available in that location.

Argentina.

 

[tangerine dream]

I'm a few minutes behind and catching up but my god if Josefin's performance isn't exactly what I want from skating. So few performances nowadays evoke these feelings. This is IT. If only more skaters performed from the heart like this.

It seems to me like very few skaters really feel and understand music. Some are in the sport for the athletic component and muscial interpretation doesn't interest them. Others try to work on that aspect but it clearly doesn't come naturally to them. It makes it all the more special when you get a skater who really does feel and interpret the music, no matter what their level of jumping ability may be.

 

[PRlady]

Is Seniuk injured? She’s usually boring but lands her jumps.