Not too worried with Broussard and Yampolsky on the team.
Here are some additional contenders for a top-3 finish: Nordeback (SWE), Chiu (CAN) Chen (CHN) , Kim, H. (KOR).
That was sad but seems to be a pattern with him. Jimmy had a bad warm up with lots of falls, even on a triple axel. I'm glad he livened things up with a change of music in his free. Nice watching him but he almost always ends his free skates with sadness.
Why do folks keep expecting miraculous medals from Ma?
Hoping is different from expecting. I wasn't even hoping for a medal. Just a performance that he could be happy with.
I wasn’t saying he would miraculously win a medal. I would like to see him complete 2 clean programs in one competition (like Keegan Messing who unexpectedly earned a medal). Instead of mostly going away from a completion not completing everything he had been training.
Oh, I know you didn’t state it. It was just a general though. I, too, am frustrated. Maybe Ma will get another chance in another GP event in fall 2023?
Well I’m not sure who anyone expects to get all these assignments when Malinin is the only current ‘youngster’ with any kind of consistency. Ma still beat Naumov and Kapeikis here and they were 4th and 6th at Nationals.
I’m sure you don’t need explaining that the jump from Junior to senior doesn’t always work as smoothly as planned, yet here we are.
How can you invest in the future at this point with skaters still on the junior level, besides send them to junior events? You think USFS should’ve just sent the juniors to 4CC instead?
I second the recommendation for Nathan's book. Even if you are not a fan of Nathan's skating in particular, I think it provides a lot of insight into the challenges of being a consistent top-level men's competitive skater. Some of Nathan's challenges are specific to him (especially his mother), but much of it applies to any of the men competing at the higher levels of the sport. Nathan writes about the pressures and anxiety he dealt with, which is probably more than most people realize. He writes a lot about the challenges of being consistent. He (and his mother) felt he needed to train a LOT of jumps and run-throughs of his programs in order to be in a position physically and mentally to deliver in competitions, especially the Olympics. However, training so much, especially so many quads, took a big toll both physically and mentally. For so much of his career he was dealing with injuries as a result of all this training, and he had periods of burnout and high anxiety.
Age needs to get left out of the assignment equation. Send him (or not) because of what he does (or doesn't do) on the ice and his record of accomplishment, not his age. Rudy Gallindo finished 11th, 8th, 5th, 7th, 8th..and then first in 1996, with a 3rd at Worlds that year. I think he was 27 when he won.
Nice interview where people actually say something. Can't stand USFS Fanzone
I agree that it didn't give much insight into who Nathan is away from the ice, though part of the discussion in the book was about how much his focus was on skating. His mother gave him a curfew even when he was 20 and was pretty much opposed to him doing anything other than skating. But, yeah, he did have friends he wanted to spend time with, and you don't get much of a sense of him outside of his skating. Even the discussion of his relationships with other skaters, including friends and training mates, was minimal.
On to the FS tomorrow! I'm glad Andrew didn't water down his SP jump content here - same as his Nationals SP.)
https://twitter.com/SylviaUnseen/status/1629466278141239296
) - jumps: 2T, 3A hung on, 3Lz, 3Lo, 3Lz+1Eu+3S, 3F+3T tight, 3F+2A
. At the beginning of the season my goal was simply to get through the season injury free and make the top 10 at Nationals!”
