Our friend Jane Bradley from the Scotsman asked PJ to follow her back on Twitter so she could DM him and has now written this article.
https://www.scotsman.com/sport/gb-to-send-full-team-of-skaters-to-world-championships-1-4878980
I'm so delighted for him, but just as heartbroken for Karly, who did so well to finish 6th in a such a high class field at Challenge Cup yesterday. I really do think she should go to Worlds too instead of being 1st Reserve, she has the potential to achieve a higher placement with a wider variety of triple jumps, and I personally love her programmes. The British Championships result could have gone either way.
Karly’s field was much more competitive than the men’s one so her placement imo was much more of an achievement. Perhaps since she’s not going to Worlds NISA (British Figure Skating is so cumbersome to type but it is a better name tbf) can put her name forward for a GP event? He seasons best is so much higher that Natasha’s.
I go back to the days when National papers like the Times, Telegraph & Guardian had a Skating Correspondent, and reported on all the big events. Nowadays all we get is regional papers covering the British Championships, if at all. Thank god for the internet. Really, it is Skating's best friend by a mile.
It made me very annoyed recently when The Guardian had an article on Liu winning the US Championships but nothing on the Euros. I understand why as they bought the Liu story of a news agency so it required little work for them but it was so annoying. If our own press don’t support our athletes who will?
I really hate having to say that they got underscored because they were not known to judges. The new scoring system is supposed to prevent this type of thing from happening with a certain base value of an element. The judges all have experience giving GOE and all know what a high GOE vs no or low GOE looks like. It shouldn't matter how new or veteran the team is. They should be scored accordingly to that specific performance.
I agree so much.