- Joined
- Feb 17, 2010
It seems like there were so many Junior competitions in which Rika was expected to medal, and yet fell out of the top three after botching the 3A-even though she would land one after the other on warmup. She sacrificed an awful lot of medals in order to attempt it. Maybe that is why the 3A is exciting-the risk factor involved. In the SP-land it -you are at the top. Miss it and you are down around 5th.
I think that effort paid off though. Working through problems with that jump as a junior surely helped it become more solid once she became a senior.