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Mai Mihara.
Mai Mihara.
Ahahaha now that would have been great. I actually think she already might have deserved to, seeing that she had the best PCS (Cohen hit the PCS at the Olympics, not nationals). Maybe Rosenthal should be third at 2006 US Nationals.
I was thinking through the layout! I really wanted to preserve the cadence of the music, and really thought the +2Axel could become a nice motif through repetition in the program when you suggested it. Especially placed right after a 2A. I know we need to have both triple jumps in combo to repeat them, so I ended up with2Axel+2Toe+2Loop
3Sal+2Axel
3Toe
2Axel
3Sal
2Axel
3Toe+2Axel
5 double axels LOL. Considering the problems people were having adjusting to CoP, an easy jump layout like this would have been quite competitive if you hit it clean and maxed your levels on the non-jump elements.
Stephanie Rosenthal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2J_d9XksU (THE LEGEND. LEGENDARY LEGEND) / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi0n2AbCQxg (LEGEND 4EVER)
Oh, uf, spelling mistakes, still Margarita Drobiasko/Povilas Vanagas
Skating keeps getting further away from true artistry and organic performance/movement quality, and it's sad. There's a very important line here in Sandra's commentary: "the intricacies are not just to collect points, it really is an emotional expression." Although it's funny, if choreography and interpretation were actually being judged correctly, these aspects would be collecting points. It's yet to really happen with the CoP scoring system (certainly not with any level of consistency). The components are mainly judged on reputation, politics, skating skills, transitions.
Jason Brown (unless we're counting small medals).
I'm obsessed with Wendy Burge after seeing this high quality coverage of the whole 1976 Olympic Ladies LP - https://www.facebook.com/olympics/videos/550105825690496/ (at 1 hour 21 minutes is her performance, and also little powerhouse Elena Vodorezova right before her). She has such expression and dynamic movement and musicality! This is one of the few programs from the era with random music cuts spliced together that really works. The Beatles + (???) + Musetta's Waltz, inspired!
I think she should have won the Long Program, and I reallllly want to see her Short Program performance now (there are a decent amount of them on Youtube, but not hers), because it seems like she was just held down and might have been the deserving winner (besides figures anyway). Dorothy Hamill was very clean and well composed, but what Wendy does is more artistic and powerful. And just compare their split jumps and camel spins at the end of each program for example. Wendy smashes Dorothy! There's also a video online of Wendy at 1977 Nationals, where she had to compete after the lights turned off! What a star!
I did not enjoy the choreography or her overall skating.
I'm obsessed with Wendy Burge after seeing this high quality coverage of the whole 1976 Olympic Ladies LP - https://www.facebook.com/olympics/videos/550105825690496/ (at 1 hour 21 minutes is her performance, and also little powerhouse Elena Vodorezova right before her)!
Five pages and no mention of Miki Ando, 2x world champ and first woman to do a quad?
Amazing Skaters Who Never Won an Olympic or World (individual) Medal