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Tomoki moved up to 5th overall at Lombardia. It looks like he attempted 3 quads w. varying degrees of success. IDK, he seems to be all over the place lately.
He's been that way for quite some time.Tomoki moved up to 5th overall at Lombardia. It looks like he attempted 3 quads w. varying degrees of success. IDK, he seems to be all over the place lately.
Jason's montage of clips from the NBC/Team USA Olympics promo shoot (including a glimpse of him posing in his new FS costume): https://www.instagram.com/p/CTvCJPEFM5Q/
"The many moods of Jason" : https://twitter.com/TeamUSA/status/1437176503150661636
It’s hard to predict the score cutoff, but I’m pretty sure he’s safe! He looked to be in great shape at Cranberry Cup, where he scored 288.26, which is in another league from the other guys trying to qualify spots.I want to preface this by saying that I am not wishing for it to happen and I don’t think it will happen? I just can’t get it out of my head.
In order to not qualify a spot for the US at Nebelhorn, how badly would Vincent have to do? Given the field, there aren’t that many men with good scoring potential. There’s the people hoping to qualify an additional spot (Roman, Mark, Adam), but even with a bad skate would Vincent not be in the top 7 of those trying to qualify?
Don't forget that he can't fail to qualify for the FS, everyone qualifies. So it's incredibly unlikely that he could skate so badly in both parts of the competition that he wouldn't make top 7.I want to preface this by saying that I am not wishing for it to happen and I don’t think it will happen? I just can’t get it out of my head.
In order to not qualify a spot for the US at Nebelhorn, how badly would Vincent have to do? Given the field, there aren’t that many men with good scoring potential. There’s the people hoping to qualify an additional spot (Roman, Mark, Adam), but even with a bad skate would Vincent not be in the top 7 of those trying to qualify?
It’s hard to predict the score cutoff, but I’m pretty sure he’s safe!
Don't forget that he can't fail to qualify for the FS, everyone qualifies. So it's incredibly unlikely that he could skate so badly in both parts of the competition that he wouldn't make top 7.
That was my thinking as well. He has a cushion to work with from technical elements in the FS. I also just looked it up and his World's SP score (70.51) is still higher than the ISU PB's of all but 7 others looking to qualify.It’s hard to predict the score cutoff, but I’m pretty sure he’s safe! He looked to be in great shape at Cranberry Cup, where he scored 288.26, which is in another league from the other guys trying to qualify spots.
In 2017, the men were competing for 6 Olympic spots at Nebelhorn. Interestingly, the last spot was qualified for UA by Yaro, with a score of 208.76. There was a pretty big gap with the first person who didn’t qualify (Michael Christian Martinez with a score of 191.74).
That said, if the ISU personal bests of the guys competing this year are anything to go by, the cut off for qualifying will probably be higher. They may not reflect current reality for all the usual reasons, and Mark Kondratiuk, doesn’t even have an ISU PB yet. But FWIW, the 7 highest PBs (obviously excluding Mark) range from 299.01 (Vincent) to 218.31 (South Korea).
Vincent would have to mess up both programs pretty badly to fall outside that range. For comparison, in 2019 (the year he started at Brown) he scored 231.95 at US Classic for what I recall was a fairly shaky performance. To put things in even more perspective, Vincent’s FS score at Cranberry Cup was 185.73. So even if he got a terrible case of nerves and scored like 60 in the SP, assuming he came back like gang busters in the free and came close to his FS score at Cranberry Cup, he would almost certainly score well enough to qualify.
I was a little concerned about it too.
I sure hope that the skategods have this thread on Ignore.
That is wild. I will still probably only be able to watch him skate from between my fingers because he stresses me out.It's interesting to note that had Vincent skated his Cranberry performance in the LP combined with his Worlds 2021 non-qualifying 25th place SP score, he would have placed 9th at 2021 Worlds. Even if we deduct 10 points to make it match his 2020 Skate America LP score earlier that season, he still would have placed 9th at 2021 Worlds. That's the kind of ammo Vincent has in his LP. He just had a crazy SP performance that he never had before that took him out of the LP. I believe he took 2021 Worlds as a true lesson learned for him, hopefully.
I considered lighting candles and smudging with sageI was a little concerned about it too.
He should have been safe to make the free skate at Worlds, too, and look how that turned out.It’s hard to predict the score cutoff, but I’m pretty sure he’s safe!
Well, no chance of that happening here. Give him some credit. He had a truly bad SP skate. Nathan Chen placed 17th in Pyeongchang and if things worked out differently for 8 men below him and he botched another jump, who knows?He should have been safe to make the free skate at Worlds, too, and look how that turned out.
I'm sure people said there was no chance of him missing the SP at Worlds, either.Well, no chance of that happening here. Give him some credit. He had a truly bad SP skate.
I thought we could have one sensible conversation about Mr. Zhou here without your obsessive,relentless anti-Vincent rants and look at how that turned out.He should have been safe to make the free skate at Worlds, too, and look how that turned out.
The question is if he will skate like a World medalist, or like a guy who missed the free skate at Worlds. I'm currently torn about whether I want to skate well, or not. If skates well that's kind of boring for the competition. If he bombs the short program then it becomes very interesting.Let’s also not forget that Zhou is a World bronze medalist. He can skate.
I don’t buy that for a second.I would like to think he shouldn't have any trouble at Nebelhorn, but he hasn't earned the right to any certainty, since he's the reason there's uncertainty at all!
Broussard has so much potential. He's musical, has nice skating skills, and seems to be on a great track with his jumps. I love his costume, too.VERY proud of Lucas Broussard's 5th place FS performance at his 2nd JGP in Krasnoyarsk today! He landed a clean 3A & 7 other triples and showcased his performance ability too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMrOD-Dzp0
Happy for Jacob! Yesterday I noticed Kai Kovar was listed as the placeholder in #6 Gdansk instead of Prober on the ISU site. USFS now has Eric listed as "withdrawn 9/15" from JGP #4 in Russia on their International Assignments page. It's very unfortunate he couldn't make his JGP debut there since he will be 19 in December and this is his final season of ISU Junior eligibility (heard Prober arrived in Krasnoyarsk but something happened -- injury? -- and he WD before the SP draw so is not listed in the results).Jacob Sanchez is now listed for the Gdansk JGP on the ISU site (replacing Eric Prober's placeholder spot)