I'm going to throw out a wild guess that she probably doesn't make it to the Cup of Austria Challenger the week after that but we will see.Bradie is out of GP Italy. Not unexpected but still.
Oh no..... I am in a million depressions. She is not my favorite skater by far, but she has done so much for USFS in the last four years, and basically was THE senior US lady all that time. So in the spirit of fairness I felt that from the start that Bradie should be the first to be named, just on account of her service and that she's still top10 competitive. Plus, I WANT to see her there, because she has been really nice and friendly to me everytime I've seen her, and it's not an act that she puts on. I just like her.Bradie is out of GP Italy. Not unexpected but still
Sponsors AND the ISU most certainly do care about diversity, so I suspect that USFS does too. That said, I thought that the three US women at SkAm performed very well, even though I realize that Shin is going through growing changes & related injury issues.
Heartbreaking. So she only has her performance at Nationals that will be held into consideration? Oh well, if she comes back strong and places top 3 she'll get named to the team. I would hope.
She has a 2nd Challenger assignment - Warsaw Cup Nov 18-21. The USFS international assignments page still shows her assigned to Cup of Austria Nov 11-14 so it seems like it's taking a week-to-week approach on withdrawing her. There would also be an opportunity for her to be assigned to Golden Spin which is Dec 8-11 if she is healed by then. Hopefully she'll get in at least one competition before Nationals.
Maybe Golden Skate in December?
She also had 2 level 3 spins - easy points to give away.
Maybe the goal of team Amber was first go clean and then loftier ambitions were to follow?
Amber landed a 3Lz+2T+2Lo combo in her 2021 Nationals free skate. She currently repeats 3F & 3Lo and doesn't need the 3S if she plans on going for 3A in her FS.
Unless she is well enough to make it to Warsaw Cup and is also assigned to Golden Spin, then, yes, I would agree.
It's a difficult call because she doesn't have same history of success that some of the others vying for the Olympic spots have. Alysa Liu is a lock at this point, so that leaves two spots. Karen Chen seems to be in line for one, and the final spot is hard to predict, particularly with Tennell's injury. If Tennell goes to US Nationals & nails a clean skate she probably gets the spot unless someone else, like Amber, has been so good that they can't leave her behind, and I'm not sure you get that by playing it safe.
As she was coming off the ice I thought I heard her say something like "I couldn't add the loop", which made me think she had a 3-3-2 combo planned, but was slightly off balance & couldn't execute it. As Sylvia mentioned, she's competed it before.
The selection document says this:
And also this:
*This language is there for the other groups as well.
The USFS has stated in the document that they will be measuring consistency based on the median score. It might be a flawed way to do it, but that's how they defined it.
Wow, I hope she doesn't have a boot problem year like Chen did a while back. Not a good year. Did she miss out on the Olympics that year?Bradie is out of GP Italy. Not unexpected but still
As was pointed out in the US Men discussion, Worlds 2021 does count - it is listed as one of the competitions that will be used to determine the median score. As long as Karen is able to score 208+ in both of her GPs and at Nationals, she will most certainly move into Group 2 since her ACI and Finlandia scores will be the two below the median.
Well, 2022 Nationals counts as one of the events, it's not just the designated internationals (GP/JGP, GPF/JGPF, and Challengers), so there would be three events if the skater in question only had two international assignments.
They are - if you are a wildly inconsistent skater or you have a really bad competition (a la Nathan @ Skate America or Karen @ ACI).
I don't think it is flawed to expect skaters to demonstrate they are able to score above a certain threshold on multiple occasions. The fact is, even if you're a Nathan with that one bad Skate America score, it's going to wind up at the bottom of the list from which the median is determined as long as he can bring his scoring up about 25 points next week, and keeping it up there for the GPF, then he will remain in Group 1. Same with Karen - if she can keep moving her score up through the GP then both ACI and Finlandia will wind up on the lower side of the median and she'll be fine for Group 2. Same goes for Bradie if she is able to make it Warsaw Cup and/or Golden Spin - as long as she is healthy and scores around what she did at Worlds when she was battling her boot problems, she'll easily be in Group 3, possibly Group 2 if she can get up to 208+.
Karen was on the 2018 Olympic team. She reported that boot issues were the cause of her poor performances at those Olympics.
Thanks for clarifying that.
If they didn't care to use this line of thought on Ashley in 2018 when she was the first to medal at Worlds in 10 years [and when BOW definitions were vague], then they won't use it on Bradie in 2022 [when the requirements are much clearer]. If Bradie wants to make the Olympic team she needs to place top 3 at Nationals as a start.
It actually makes a lot more sense than using averages aka the mean.
I don't disagree, I just think the word "consistently" doesn't really apply.
