Last night the Ladies carried on the trend of these Olympics by seriously bringing it and giving us a fantastic competition with some truly spectacular - and emotional - performances. It is sad to think that last night's SP is the beginning of the end of Vancouver 2010, and that tomorrow night will be the last figure skating competition of the games.
- Sonia LaFuente started things very nicely with a nice clean program. She looks so diva-ish, I love it.
- I love Miriam Ziegler and she seems like an absolute sweetheart, I saw her around a lot in Oberstdorf in September and also a bit at Euros and she always looked so bouncy and cheerful. She is lovely to watch and has really pretty spirals especially, but her jumps are not consistent at all. Such a shame for her. Still, she's really young - she looks like such a little girl in the KnC - and there is potential there if she can get her jumps consistent.
- I also love Cheltzie Lee, I'm so happy that she got to go and wow, she did a great job. Her dress was really pretty, too, and I loved how delighted she was with herself. Eighteenth out of 30 is pretty good, especially considering she only found out she was coming about three weeks ago. Hopefully she can deliver in the free.
- I think Ksenia Makarova may officially be my new favourite lady. She is beautiful and her skating, especially her jumps, are beautiful. Her spins travelled a lot though. Loved her shoutout to 'everybody at school' and the way that she said Johnny in a Russian accent! I also love that Johnny made himself her honorary coach or whatever and was at the boards for her, love that guy.
- Min-Jung Kwak looks way too skinny, I thought she might actually snap during her program. She has pretty jumps and a stunning Biellmann, though.
- Jenna looked like an elephant after the minute Korean. Triple splat and a double flip; it's not a good season for her this year. Sad to see her looking so deflated in the KnC, and that she doesn't even get to skate the free when she was probably shooting for top fifteen. Maybe she will go to Worlds and redeem herself a little.
- Now that I wasn't secretly rooting for Ashley I could really enjoy Mirai, and I definitely did. Her layback spin and spirals are just gorgeous, obviously. There are a lot of people skating to Pirates this year and I never get bored of it. I love her smile.
- Elene G was wonderful! It seems like this is really her season. She just oozes charisma and fantastic-ness.
- I love the opening choreography of Sarah Meier's program and her spin at the end but I can't say I really loved the rest of her program. I also usually like both Elena Glebova and Kiira Korpi but both lost me after that spectacularly popped sal/fall respectively.
- I loved the audience singing along with Sweet Caroline during the resurface before group 5. Olympic moment!
- I love Laura Lepisto. I could watch her just skate around looking pretty forever. Loved her dress, too. It's a shame she didn't get the 3-3 out but other than that, a good clean skate.
- Absolutely fantastic program from Mao! Best I've seen her all season, she really looked like she was happy again. Her 3A was absolutely gorgeous, everything else beautiful, just lovely. I like her new dress, she just needs to take that collar off. And killer score. Love how shocked she was.
- Equally as lovely from Yu-Na. She's so light and easy and beautiful. I think Mao is more exciting to watch but Y-NK is gorgeous. I was kind of worried that she wouldn't be able to stand up to the pressure but she seemed to manage it. It will definitely be interesting to see if she does the same in the free, there have been a few times this season where she's made mistakes that could cost her. She does have quite a margin over Mao but she is skating before Mao this time so Asada will know what she will need to do if there is a chance that she can beat her.
- Suzuki has great musicality but wasn't completely on form with the jumps, missed her combination and had to make one later. Also her eyes really, really scare me. She looked like she was having a great time though.
- Leonova didn't quite have the same spark she had at the beginning of the season / end of last and looked a little tight on her jump landings but it's nice to see her landing things at all, I was afraid she'd fall apart after Europe, and she looked delighted at the end.
- The showdown between Mao and Yu-Na became kind of redundant after the news of Joannie's mother's death. It was always going to be her night and it wouldn't really have mattered how she skated but wow, she showed such absolutely incredible strength and had absolutely the performance of the night. I think she brought basically the whole skating world, and no doubt many others watching, to tears. Truly amazing.
- Julia Sebestyen kind of paled into insignificance after Joannie but it's impressive enough that this is her fourth Olympics and she seemed happy enough with her skate. It must have been difficult and a little awkward for her to have to skate after Joannie, so she did well.
- I really like Rachael's program for her, especially the steps, and she landed everything as usual. Plus, just look how cute she was in the KnC. I would really like to see her hold onto fifth tomorrow.
- I so wanted Carolina to kill it out there, but she just didn't really bring it. Still, she didn't bomb, which is a step up for her given her general performance over the last two seasons.
- Ando just is not that exciting to me. For Joannie's sake, I am kind of hoping that she doesn't pull up to take bronze, although I'm sure that Joannie is not really so concerned about her medal anymore.
Tomorrow will definitely be an interesting night. It seems at this point that Kim is basically assured of the gold but there is definitely space for an upset. Joannie may or may not be able to hold it together for the free, but either way, I think she will be what defines this Ladies competition and one of the main things that I will remember about Vancouver 2010.
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