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[figure skating] *INCOHERENT SCREAMING*
Jan. 26th, 2019 07:33 am EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS MENS AND LADIES AND PAIRS ARE OVER AND I'M SCREAMINF OH MY GOD I AM SO HAPPY WITH THE GOLD MEDALISTS
Sofia Samodurova for ladies gold (in her first year as a senior!), Javier Fernandez for men's gold (HIS SEVENTH IN A ROW) (AND IT'S HIS LAST COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE) and Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres for pairs gold (MANY TEARS THEY'RE SO GOOD)
Mens and Ladies definitely had unexpected things happening, though. For mens, it was unexpected that Matteo and probably Alexander would end up on the podium, but Mikhail Kolyada (who was expected) had a really bad free skate after an amazing short and I think he injured himself? I hope not...Also really good was Kevin Aymoz in 4th -- his short especially. And Javier killed it of course! On only three weeks of training! Matteo skated to Queen so A+++
Ladies: Alina Zagitova was definitely the favorite, and I think it was expected that the podium would be all Russian (Alina, Sofia, Stanislava) but that did not happen. Stanislava had a really bad short program, Alina had a really bad long program (she's been having issues with it all season) and Sofia killed both programs. Viveca Lindfors from Finland was third with a program to Les Mis!
Carmen programs should be cancelled. All three people, all from Russia (Alina, Mikhail, and Maxim Kovtun), who performed it for their free skate had disaster.
The slow burn horror at knowing that Alexander Samarin could medal and possibly even win was fun to watch on Twitter. I don't really like him either RIP his free program bothers me so much because he isn't the person for it at all. (It's a Greatest Showman program)
That was fun to watch though. Also fun to watch was the US ladies free skate! Alysa Liu won Nationals at 13 years old, becoming the youngest woman to win it ever, with three triple axels across both programs. My slight salt with the podium here is that I wish Mariah was silver over Bradie based solely on their free skates (I like them both), since they both had really good short programs but Mariah had a better free imo.
US everything else is today (and the men's free tomorrow) so that should be fun! I imagine Nathan Chen is going to get gold, but we'll see.
Sofia Samodurova for ladies gold (in her first year as a senior!), Javier Fernandez for men's gold (HIS SEVENTH IN A ROW) (AND IT'S HIS LAST COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE) and Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres for pairs gold (MANY TEARS THEY'RE SO GOOD)
Mens and Ladies definitely had unexpected things happening, though. For mens, it was unexpected that Matteo and probably Alexander would end up on the podium, but Mikhail Kolyada (who was expected) had a really bad free skate after an amazing short and I think he injured himself? I hope not...Also really good was Kevin Aymoz in 4th -- his short especially. And Javier killed it of course! On only three weeks of training! Matteo skated to Queen so A+++
Ladies: Alina Zagitova was definitely the favorite, and I think it was expected that the podium would be all Russian (Alina, Sofia, Stanislava) but that did not happen. Stanislava had a really bad short program, Alina had a really bad long program (she's been having issues with it all season) and Sofia killed both programs. Viveca Lindfors from Finland was third with a program to Les Mis!
Carmen programs should be cancelled. All three people, all from Russia (Alina, Mikhail, and Maxim Kovtun), who performed it for their free skate had disaster.
The slow burn horror at knowing that Alexander Samarin could medal and possibly even win was fun to watch on Twitter. I don't really like him either RIP his free program bothers me so much because he isn't the person for it at all. (It's a Greatest Showman program)
That was fun to watch though. Also fun to watch was the US ladies free skate! Alysa Liu won Nationals at 13 years old, becoming the youngest woman to win it ever, with three triple axels across both programs. My slight salt with the podium here is that I wish Mariah was silver over Bradie based solely on their free skates (I like them both), since they both had really good short programs but Mariah had a better free imo.
US everything else is today (and the men's free tomorrow) so that should be fun! I imagine Nathan Chen is going to get gold, but we'll see.
