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PS: I‘d have a hard time believing Midori Ito was a complete skater but if you presented me with a good list of arguments, I might actually change my mind. It would definitely be interesting.
I'm actually surprised I've been asked to argue for this, because to me it's so self-evident! She had excellent jump technique (I'm not only talking of her 3A but her general takeoff technique and her ability to do 3T and 3Lo as second jumps), good spins (very centered and fast, good strong basic positions such as a low sit -- IJS level requirements have very little to do with basic quality), enormous speed (I've even seen it argued that she was bad at figures precisely because she had too much speed and figures need to be done at a steady, slow pace), fantastic projection that the audience and media alike responded passionately to even before she started doing 3A in competition. I'm more confused as why she wouldn't be considered a good, well-rounded skater. Her only flaws were buckling under Olympic pressure and not being "traditionally pretty and elegant" (irrelevant to judging someone as a skater).