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I want whatever is best for Gracie, but selfishly I miss the Instagram videos of her training.
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I especially loved her Sectionals performance. She was so happy.
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I agree a lot of people love, respect and still cheer on Gracie in fact I would say for a woman who has not gone to Nationals in a few years and went to Cup of Russia last year when not prepared - seh has amazing support. There is also suggestion of financial suport to. Let's be real Gracie has a lot of loyal fans - the fact that she is talked about so much on GS and other forums and the media still loves her says a lot.
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i think it's time we let her competition outings do the talking. based on a recent interview, Gracie seems very determined and serious about competing at nationals. i hope she is able to compete how she practices!
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I have no idea what she looks like, but she’s clearly in good shape based upon her Sectionals performance.
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You know you could look up her lastest performances and see for yourself that she is doing very well.
Not to mention Evgenia Medvedeva in her fist year as senior.
Except at the Olympics. Gracie came in 4th and Julia came in 5th, I think.
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People forget that, in 2013 and 2014, Julia skated a lot of events without a major error in either program. She also earned a ton of GOE on her top-level spins. It wasn't easy to beat a skater like that unless you skated your best, and Gracie typically had one or more costly falls/pops in each competition.
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Yes I am El Henry. I should have said last major competition or international event. Rostelecom was painful to watch. I think I saw one of those qualifying skates. Will review. She is very brave to just compete for the challenge to herself even if she can not do the same technical content. My intent behind my words is I just don’t want her to repeat Rostelecom because she gets a bad case of nerves. If this is the last time we see her at a major event I just want her to do well and have the audience show her we appreciate her journey. That is my intention.
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She placed in Regionals and Sectionals and qualified for Nationals, so that means something regarding being able to do the technical content.
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I get the concern, but I would definitely check out her Sectionals performance from this year. That is a much better indicator of her level of fitness than Rostelcom from over a year ago. Grace has improved by leaps and bounds. It is actually kind of cool just to watch her Regionals performance and then watch Sectionals, but if you really want to see the amount of improvement watch all three short programs starting with Rosetelcom, then Regionals, then Sectionals. At Sectionals she wasn't up to the level of Gracie of old, but it was such an incredible improvement. She has worked really hard for this comeback, and it is cool to see the progress, even if watching Rostelceom isn;t pretty.
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I thought her improvement between Regionals and Sectionals was crazy. She didn’t even make tech minimums at Regionals and I think almost everyone had written her off for Sectionals. But she wasn’t going to be denied. And I don’t think she will be denied for Nationals either.
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Can you tell me what tech content she completed with positive goe in sp or Lp. Anyone?
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Well just from looking at the protocols, at Sectionals in the short all of her elements has positive GOE, in the long 3Lo, CCoSp, StSq, 2F, 3S+2T, ChSq, FCCoSp, and LSp all had positive GOE. Some more positive than others...
It's not just Yulia, but also Liza Tuktamysheva and Radionova and then Medvedeva.
She was trained with the goal of winning events, but most of the time she always had 1-2 russians in front of her.
The only times were i felt Gracie was very much underscored was at the Team event in Sochi. In the free Gracie had an amazing clean skate, you can argue she should have won the free or at least get a score very close to Yulia, instead it was like 10-12 points below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxIiJ5_cibA
The other times was more her struggling with too much pressure, many times she had the chance to win and just lost it. (the most obvious one at Worlds)
Right now as she said, she is not training with the expectations of winning everything, it's more like she does it for the passion towards this sport.
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I hope she does well. Like most of the other competitors, Gracie can do all the jumps through the lutz. It will be a matter of whether she can reproduce what she does in practice during the competition. If she can keep it together and not lose focus on the easier jumps, she could finish as high as 4th. I just want her to do well enough that she remains motivated to improve and earn some international assignments next season.
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Me too!!! And 4th would be insane. That’s the pewter medal. And there’s a difference between not Gracie doing triple jumps and Gracie doing triple jumps.
4th at Nationals, I'm sorry?
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