U.S. Women [#4]: How Dare You

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Per Road to Gold, Gracie is injured and doing PT in Colorado Springs. Don’t know the extent of the injury nor how long she has been doing PT. Trying to confirm with a friend who has a kid training in CS. I’m devastated.
 
moonvine said:
Per Road to Gold, Gracie is injured and doing PT in Colorado Springs. Don’t know the extent of the injury nor how long she has been doing PT. Trying to confirm with a friend who has a kid training in CS. I’m devastated.
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Gracie has been injured for several months, as confirmed by various social media posts shared in this thread which showed her wearing a medical boot during the summer.
 
Karen-W said:
Gracie has been injured for several months, as confirmed by various social media posts shared in this thread which showed her wearing a medical boot during the summer.
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I knew that she was injured earlier in the year. However Road 2 Gold formerly announced that she would be competing as well as Johnny said he was getting another coach instead of her because she would be competing and he wanted someone who would be coaching 100% of the time and not competing. So at that time I had expectations that she would in fact be competing.
 
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The lady who does These Are the Blades of Our Lives follows Dave & Jonathan, pointing out Elyce’s problems/falls.

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Polina even failed to mention the Georgian pair, who won spectacularly. You’d think that Flores/Wang won.
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And that’s Iron Butterfly’s big fault. Iron Ostrich, with head n sand??? And because there were NO US pairs at Budapest, she said “No US pairs - no need to cover pairs - Goodbye til next week!” ROTFL!
Again - I personally don’t care for Luca Berulava because of his partnering last year but…the Georgians won by a huge mile.
 
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And that’s Iron Butterfly’s big fault. Iron Ostrich, with head n sand???
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Feel free to go vent in Polina's podcast thread (constructive criticism is always welcomed): https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/the-iron-butterfly-podcast-by-polina-edmunds.110973/

KUDOS to Sarah Everhardt who now has the highest SP score - 60.19 - on the JGP among the U.S. women so far! :) (Elyce Lin-Gracey scored 59.75 in Istanbul and Sherry Zhang 59.31 in Budapest.)
Sarah's SP video from Gdansk is up already (3T+3Tq, 2A & 3Lz +1.35 GOE): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X7UyhjCkmA

Sarah's only previous ISU PB SP score was 52.93 in her JGP debut in Courchevel last year. She's in 4th place heading into tomorrow's FS.
 
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KUDOS to Sarah Everhardt who now has the highest SP score - 60.19 - on the JGP among the U.S. women so far! :) (Elyce Lin-Gracey scored 59.75 in Istanbul and Sherry Zhang 59.31 in Budapest.)
Sarah's SP video from Gdansk is up already (3T+3Tq, 2A & 3Lz +1.35 GOE): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X7UyhjCkmA

Sarah's only previous ISU PB SP score was 52.93 in her JGP debut in Courchevel last year. She's in 4th place heading into tomorrow's FS.
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It would be exciting for Sarah to outscore both Elyce and Sherry in the competition, as if to say, "USFS, you're going to regret giving away the final assignment in Yerevan!" Let's see if she proves them wrong or not in the FS.
 
zebobes said:
It would be exciting for Sarah to outscore both Elyce and Sherry in the competition, as if to say, "USFS, you're going to regret giving away the final assignment in Yerevan!" Let's see if she proves them wrong or not in the FS.
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The 3 are tied. No clear choice.
 
zebobes said:
It would be exciting for Sarah to outscore both Elyce and Sherry in the competition, as if to say, "USFS, you're going to regret giving away the final assignment in Yerevan!" Let's see if she proves them wrong or not in the FS.
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LOL. Anything is possible, but... she's attempting a 3t+3t in the SP, so I'm not quite sure she has the base TES to beat either Elyce or Sherry in the final scores. We'll know soon enough though.
 
SkateFanBerlin said:
The 3 are tied. No clear choice.
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Oh, I'm not blaming USFS, I just think it's always fun when someone gets mad and proves the powers that be wrong.

LOL. Anything is possible, but... she's attempting a 3t+3t in the SP, so I'm not quite sure she has the base TES to beat either Elyce or Sherry in the final scores. We'll know soon enough though.
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With the new double axel sequence rules, it's not as big of a deal as in the past, as you can still get 7 triples without a triple triple in the Free.
 
I was surprised by the choice of "Nessun Dorma" for her free. Maybe it's to bring out the power in her skating?
 
Wyliefan said:
I was surprised by the choice of "Nessun Dorma" for her free.
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Here's a copy of Bradie Tennell's Shanghai Trophy FS debut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLv6tPIQhAk

Bradie scored 199.80 total (67.38 in SP, 132.42 in FS). FS jumps were called 3Lzq, 3Lo+2A, 3F!<, 3S, 2A+3T, 3Lzq+2T+2Loq, 3Lo; first spin & footwork level 4, final 2 spins L3.

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Link to watch Bradie's SP in Shanghai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWRjc-Vj-6M&t=2100s
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Bradie Tennell (USA)
SP: "Kammermusik" composed by Arash Safaian
Choreographer: Benoit Richaud
Clip from practice: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cwp7BMatFlS/
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Wyliefan said:
I was surprised by the choice of "Nessun Dorma" for her free. Maybe it's to bring out the power in her skating?
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I can’t wait to watch, by the way, does this get ISU points? Because I don’t think there was enough criteria in the pairs discipline, did the woman get points for this?
 
Invitationals aren’t eligible for WS points, regardless of the number of participants and number of countries represented or the number of competition phases. (Japan Open is only the free.)

If it hadn’t been an invitational, none of the fields would have been large enough with enough members among them to earn WS points.
 
Do you mean SB (season’s best) score? if so, no: only total scores from Championships, Olympics/YOG, CS, GP/JP, and Olympic qualifiers are eligible.

If I’m reading the docs correctly, skaters can’t earn TES minimums at invitationals, even ones with all phases, because they don’t qualify as internationals (which need at least two entries from two different members to earn the minimums, but not relevant to invitationals).
 
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A thought after watching the YT archive of her FS, is perhaps a slight change in the choreo following the lutz and flip....so that she could hold the running edge out of the jumps a bit longer, to give her more time to actually land the jump without the "q". Sometimes with choreo immediately following solo jumps, the skater anticipates the landing and then stepping into the next moment of the choreography, causes a slight UR of the jump.

Nice presentation, like the quiet elegance of her dress and almost a Taylor Swift fierceness or power to her presentation ;-)
 
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