#2 KAETLYN OSMOND : CANADA'S SWEETHEART

Okay, you may need some kleenex, the greatest audience section reaction ever! Just sayin'

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/979098885732884486

So, Piper (her bestie)in tears, Scott, Eric, Chiddy and MT & T, out of their minds, and Kaitlyn Weaver standing on her seat. Even our American cousins, Ashley, Madison & Zack, are sooo excited! I am going to miss this quad so much, from their chemistry, respect for each other and their friendships...amazing to watch!

Thanks for these memories, guys. Stars On Ice or bust, everyone!
 
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Osmond4gold said:
Okay, you may need some kleenex, the greatest audience section reaction ever! Just sayin'

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/979098885732884486

So, Piper (her bestie)in tears, Scott, Eric, and Chiddy, out of their minds, and Kaitlyn Weaver standing on her seat. Even our American cousins, Madison & Zack, are sooo excited! I am going to miss this quad so much, from their chemistry, respect for each other and their friendships...amazing to watch!

Thanks for these memories, guys. Stars On Ice or bust, everyone!
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LOVE THIS!
 
I just have to say, Osmond’s victory was very needed in ladies’ figure skating, it lets it be known that you don’t have to be built like a waif and rotate your jumps fast to be the best in the world. It also lets it be known that your can overcome injuries and still see the fruits of your hard work later in your career. I could go on and on about what I like about Osmond’s skating and why I’m so thrilled that she’s a world champion but most fans already know what’s so great about her skating. I really hope that she stays around for another Olympic cycle
 
Cross-posting these links from the Canadian Ladies thread in GSD...

From the most normal (least offensive :p) Rosie DiManno article I've ever read? Kaetlyn Osmond still stunned by her world figure skating title

Article by Brian Smiley in the Brantford Expositor: Osmond is 'perfection'

Osmond will skate in Marystown (Newfoundland) on April 11: http://www.cbncompass.ca/sports/oth...d-adds-world-champion-to-growing-rsum-196706/

ETA that I posted this originally in the Osmond World Champion thread in the 2018 Worlds forum:

Column by Terry Jones (Edmonton Sun, March 29): http://edmontonsun.com/sports/other...xcitement-over-her-world-figure-skating-title
Osmond also got cheated out of the coverage Canadians used to receive at the worlds. Sportswriters such as Neil Stevens, Bev Smith, Cam Cole, Steve Milton, Steve Buffery, Rosie DiManno and myself used to cover them virtually every year. Not one member of the Canadian print media was there to record Osmond’s triumph this year.
Not once in all those years, and I covered 21 of them, did we get to write about a Canadian woman winning the world crown.
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“To get another opportunity to represent Canada on the Olympic stage would be amazing and is definitely something I have in my mind,” she said.
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“As a skater, Ravi [Walia] was a jumper and that was his strength. With Kaetlyn Osmond he has taken a skater and developed the whole package and that has been her strength,” said Slipchuk. “As a coach, Ravi seeks advice and has had Kaetlyn training with himself and many other top coaches over the years.
“He has always looked out for her interest, never pushed for international assignments unless he was ready, and the results this year have been a testament to that strategy over the years.”
Walia began coaching Osmond when she was 10 years old. Now he’s coach of the first Canadian to win the world women’s championship in 45 years.
Osmond says she’s as happy for him as she is for herself.
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I think she is taking it one season at a time. She would be 26 at the next Olympics, so not committing to anything yet, and where she has been to 2 previous OG and has already 3 medals from both, what's left to prove?
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Plus world gold and silver.

Also, Zags gave Kaetlyn a gift with her three falls at Worlds. No offense to Kaetlyn - she's the real deal and I was over the moon to see her win the World title.

But if Zags skates clean, her higher BV will give her the win. Kaetlyn's superior PCS (IMO) aren't enough to counter that.

Could be that Kaetlyn wants to regain her Canadian title, but how much of a motivator could be in light of all she's achieved?

If she does stick around, it will probably come down to the cliched 'still have more to give to the sport'.
 
It’s not a gift. Part of the sport is standing up when it counts and Alina didn’t do it. Kaetlyn did. That’s sport.

The field isn’t deep in Canada. She can still be top of the heap there for a bit and is (as of now) still competitive to be on the podium. Even if it isn’t the top step. Then in 2022 she could potentially make an impact in the team comp (which she’s said she loves).

She loves skating. That is clear. So if she can be healthy and do it for a while longer, I think she will and that she should. Why not?
 
^^ Agreed aml78, Kaetlyn went out there and did what she could, to obtain a podium finish. That was her stated goal before Worlds, ''to match or do better than the 2017 Worlds.'' If others failed to rise to the occasion, Kaetlyn is the last one to blame, or to be denied the achievement as somehow ''gifted'', by her competitors. This ignores her accomplishments this year; never missing a podium in any competition, the only individual female skater to have podiumed at the GP Final, the Olympics (2 times) and now Worlds. This is a testament to the body of her work, and the ability to peak at the right times, in a highly competitive field.
 
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I really hate all this “gifted” talk. (Well first, I hate the word “gifted.” What happened to the perfectly good word “given.”) Anyway, if you are going to talk about gifted, one could say both Med and Zag were “gifted” this year by the fact that juniors like Trusova are too young to compete senior. It doesn’t matter how backloaded Zag’s programs are, she isn’t going to beat a clean two quad program from Trusova. Now for those who say that Trusova might not be able to skate that program cleanly at worlds, well, that is exactly what happened to Zag. It is sport. The winner doesn’t need to be perfect, they just need to be better than everyone else on the day.
 
agreed @aml78 and @Osmond4gold lets face it Zag didnt win ANY portion of the competition... She didnt gift anyone. She was second in sp and so low in free that i can't remember exactly where she fell to.

She didnt skate any error free programs. She's frantic, low jumps and no flow out and no versatility in what shes able to do at this point. Her SP is the same as her LP. Its like skating to Grease for your SP and then Grease 2 for your free. She doesn't even wear 2 different costumes for 2 different programs yet. Good enough to win an Oly Gold, yes. Good enough to be considered the Winner all the time? Child, please.
 
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Kaetlyn also faced much of the same post-Olympic letdown, exhaustion, etc as Zagitova did. I had said a few times before Worlds that I had low expectations for Kaetlyn going into Worlds because I expected the post-Olympic demands to take a toll on her and she wouldn't perform at her best. I turned out to be a little bit right with the SP and dead wrong with the LP. As it turned out, she was able to handle it better than Zagitova and deliver a better overall performance over two days. So I don't think that takes anything away from her.
 
Sylvia said:
Osmond will skate in Marystown (Newfoundland) on April 11: http://www.cbncompass.ca/sports/oth...d-adds-world-champion-to-growing-rsum-196706/
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March 31st article: http://vocm.com/news/kaetlyn-osmond-meet-and-greet-tickets-gone-in-hours/
If you were hoping to get tickets to see Olympic Gold Medallist and World Champion Kaetlyn Osmond in Marystown, you might be out of luck.
The children’s Meet and Greet with the figure skater on April 14th at St. Gabriel’s Hall ran out of tickets in the first couple of hours.
There were still a few tickets left for the Adult social over noon hour.
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quartz said:
I'd like to see Kaetlyn do something quirky and offbeat this year.
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Me too re quirky. I think she needed to show the judges versatility as some of her critics including online, have said previously, and they know who they are, that she could only skate to show tunes.

Now debunked, lets be quirky!
 
AngieNikodinovLove said:
NOOOOO. Not for her or any skater for the next 50 yrs. Firebird is the all time warhorse. Bleh. lol

If you come to the drawing board with Firebird you should soul search.
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I would not agree that I need to soul search. Rather, I can totally imagine Katelyn doing an AMAZING program to Firebird. She's a skater who has demonstrated that she can pull off a warhorse easily. Not so for younger immature skaters.
 
I loved her short program for the 2014 Olympics to "Hey Big Spender/Rich Man's Frug". I think she can pull off a lot of different styles and does flirty/sassy really convincingly.
 
puglover said:
I loved her short program for the 2014 Olympics to "Hey Big Spender/Rich Man's Frug". I think she can pull off a lot of different styles and does flirty/sassy really convincingly.
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Yes, that would be great for a new short program!
 
She’s awesome when she can flash a mega watt smile, be confident and have fun. But I do think the tempo of black swan and Piaf helped her be more measured and control her enormous jumps. I think when it gets too fast and frenetic her jumps get away from her.
 
aml78 said:
She’s awesome when she can flash a mega watt smile, be confident and have fun. But I do think the tempo of black swan and Piaf helped her be more measured and control her enormous jumps. I think when it gets too fast and frenetic her jumps get away from her.
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I think that you might be right.
 
I think something like Scherazade for the long and quirky for the short. Nothing like a war horse!
 
aml78 said:
It’s not a gift. Part of the sport is standing up when it counts and Alina didn’t do it. Kaetlyn did. That’s sport.
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Osmond4gold said:
^^ Agreed aml78, Kaetlyn went out there and did what she could, to obtain a podium finish. That was her stated goal before Worlds, ''to match or do better than the 2017 Worlds.'' If others failed to rise to the occasion, Kaetlyn is the last one to blame, or to be denied the achievement as somehow ''gifted'', by her competitors. This ignores her accomplishments this year; never missing a podium in any competition, the only individual female skater to have podiumed at the GP Final, the Olympics (2 times) and now Worlds. This is a testament to the body of her work, and the ability to peak at the right times, in a highly competitive field.
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Erin said:
Kaetlyn also faced much of the same post-Olympic letdown, exhaustion, etc as Zagitova did. I had said a few times before Worlds that I had low expectations for Kaetlyn going into Worlds because I expected the post-Olympic demands to take a toll on her and she wouldn't perform at her best.
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I understand the dislike the word 'gifted', and certainly didn't use it to deny Kaetlyn's talent and accomplishments. She still had to skate the program like a champion. She did have the same pressure on her as Zagitova. She put her win down to training, but I'd also say it was experience and maturity that allowed her to win on the day.

When one skater has a clear advantage points-wise over another clean to clean, and that one skater has shown remarkable consistency, should that skater have just one bad outing, I don't think the word 'gifted' is totally inappropriate or wrong. But again I do understand why it can be seen as perjorative.
 
Japanfan said:
I understand the dislike the word 'gifted', and certainly didn't use it to deny Kaetlyn's talent and accomplishments. She still had to skate the program like a champion. She did have the same pressure on her as Zagitova. She put her win down to training, but I'd also say it was experience and maturity that allowed her to win on the day.

When one skater has a clear advantage points-wise over another clean to clean, and that one skater has shown remarkable consistency, should that skater have just one bad outing, I don't think the word 'gifted' is totally inappropriate or wrong. But again I do understand why it can be seen as perjorative.
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I think it is only a gift if it is intentionally given :)
 
AxelAnnie said:
I think it is only a gift if it is intentionally given :)
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But the word is used figuratively all the time - 'got a gift there', or 'dodged a bullet'. A gift can be unintentional.

from www.dictionary.com: "something bestowed or acquired without any particular effort by the recipient or without its being earned"
 
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Not taking away anything away from Vipond or Buttle, but I really hope that Osmond collaborates with Shae-Lynn Bourne for the 2018-19 season. They both have such a “soultry” element to their skating that I fully believe that a collaboration between the two of them would be a magic combination 🤩
 
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