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- Feb 8, 2015
Ladies- there were some surprieses apart from Alina. I am still happy I managed to see Gracie. Hope she does not give up and continue. I thought Mako was injured because she had troubles with the jumps during warm-up us as well. Polina had again two days off. Very happy for Eunsoo and Sofia. Both made very good performances. I am happy with what Alina showed , I just don't get the people here at the forum expect her to deliver every time 100% if you consider her programs the most difficult ones. If it was that easy everybody would have transitions, exist entries like her, but they don't. So its normal when she hits them to have record scores. Next week hope we will see many clean programs and hopefully 3 clean Axels and make the field even more interesting. If you prefer programs with gliding and expressions good for you I like the action at the right music moment Alina programs bring. Did Nathan was just for the ladies event, I am asking for a friend .
Men - there was Yuzuru and all the rest. I will not speak of him, he is the king period I just adore that now he is at ease and just enjoy the skating and every moment. I was really hoping Kolyada to deliver in front of home crowd, but still he had the perfect first music cut of Carmen with loads of speeds nice gestures and beautiful quads, next time more. Kolyada hitted 40 points with 3 jumping passes and then bomb the rest. Happy for the surprised medalists.
Ice dance - it feels so good to see Bukin and Ponomarenko in one competition. I am rooting for Stepanova and Bukin to bring back medals for Russia in big competitions. Anyway I was secretly hoping the polish couple hit the podium (at least on one of the dances) and Carreira and Ponomarenko silver. Congratulations to Sarah and Kiril who shattered this dream . Very good placement for Evdokimova and Bazin. Also let not forget to mention here that Shpilevaya and Smirnov could have made the competition far more interesting and classy, but instead we had a rare view seeing Russian couple last with a good difference, good job Russian Fed.
No surprises at the top, Evgenia is fighter once again. I was far more interested to see how the young Russian couples will do against each other, Daria and Denis almost got me chocked on my drink with random fall and Efimova and Korovin just have to work a bit more on their jumps. Seeing Bruno at the boards and then Miriam and Severin make very good skate cant be coincidence right. They are really improving so much. I will not lie that Cain and Leduc are my fave US couple after Chris and Alexa and wanted they to show more, their programs are so creative and they are not the typical pairs couple. I also wanted to see more from Deanna and Nathan after their previous competition unfortunately they along with Alexandrovskaya and Windsor had really bad falls on the throws.
Men - there was Yuzuru and all the rest. I will not speak of him, he is the king period I just adore that now he is at ease and just enjoy the skating and every moment. I was really hoping Kolyada to deliver in front of home crowd, but still he had the perfect first music cut of Carmen with loads of speeds nice gestures and beautiful quads, next time more. Kolyada hitted 40 points with 3 jumping passes and then bomb the rest. Happy for the surprised medalists.
Ice dance - it feels so good to see Bukin and Ponomarenko in one competition. I am rooting for Stepanova and Bukin to bring back medals for Russia in big competitions. Anyway I was secretly hoping the polish couple hit the podium (at least on one of the dances) and Carreira and Ponomarenko silver. Congratulations to Sarah and Kiril who shattered this dream . Very good placement for Evdokimova and Bazin. Also let not forget to mention here that Shpilevaya and Smirnov could have made the competition far more interesting and classy, but instead we had a rare view seeing Russian couple last with a good difference, good job Russian Fed.
No surprises at the top, Evgenia is fighter once again. I was far more interested to see how the young Russian couples will do against each other, Daria and Denis almost got me chocked on my drink with random fall and Efimova and Korovin just have to work a bit more on their jumps. Seeing Bruno at the boards and then Miriam and Severin make very good skate cant be coincidence right. They are really improving so much. I will not lie that Cain and Leduc are my fave US couple after Chris and Alexa and wanted they to show more, their programs are so creative and they are not the typical pairs couple. I also wanted to see more from Deanna and Nathan after their previous competition unfortunately they along with Alexandrovskaya and Windsor had really bad falls on the throws.