If only one of the Japanese ladies could have medaled  

So the competition is over, and we just have to die by McSwanYu remaining.

 

Am I allowed to dig at Tara? Yes?

Okay, I'll take 15 year old Alina over 15 year old Tara any day. =P

I can't hate on Alina too much because she's just a kid, a cute kid but ...I just hope she doesn't vanish into the wind. Like there's potential when she matures and Eteri actually decides to give her an actual program.

 

idk i'm just so ...ajsfdsaf ISU yakking about bringing more artistry but we get the exact opposite because judges can't fucking use pcs correctly even though it's been what 13 yrs (since 2005).

Just now, Lanvin said:

I can't hate on Alina too much because she's just a kid, a cute kid but ...I just hope she doesn't vanish into the wind. Like there's potential when she matures and Eteri actually decides to give her an actual program.

 

She will be fine, she's an Olympic Gold Medallist now at the age of 15, her first senior year. Sad for Zhenya but Alina's future is bright, even if she's beaten by other juniors in the future she will always have this honour (as well as a World Record) to look back upon. 

Congrats to everyone, especially the top 4 who skated so beautifully!  Sad for Zhenya but Alina deserved her win for all her hard work too.  This competition is sort of giving me Nagano vibes but anyways onto the gala where we will see our trio (Yuzu, Zhenya and Misha) in crime again!  Who knows, maybe Zhenya might skate to some K-pop!

19 minutes ago, Moria Polonius said:

So it basically sums up everybody's feelings... Congrats to Zagi for strategy, to everybody else for being awesome.

 

Goddamn judges, lol.

I don't know if he's spilling tea or what. 

24 minutes ago, Moria Polonius said:

 

Ok, now I'll have to go hunting for a video.

The very "talented" cameramen cut Nathan's jumo tho'.

I think many of us were rooting for Zhenya more because she's been delivering under pressure for so long, it's easy to feel she "deserves" it more and she remind us of Yuzu too (not talking about skating qualitis here, only personality and achievements)

 

But all the ladies in the last group were amazing, they saved the competition! Kaetlyn delivered when it counted so congrats! The jpn ladies did better than we could hope too, both placing in top 6  no blatant robbing here (tho I'd rather have Kaori above Caro). Alina and Zhenya both have proved they are amazing ladies and amazing fighters, out of this world for their mental strenght.

Now I would really like to know if Alina can be totally happy with her gold, I hope she will but she admires Zhenya a lot too and seeing her like this must feel awful, more so because it was a win on a few points. I honestly think she would have been still quite happy with silver, certainly more than Zhenya can be with hers.

(Also, what's with judges handling out WR in the SP as if there was no tomorrow and suddenly holding back in the FS?)

I hope both Alina and Zhenya will find the motivation to go on and that they can stay around and develop even more.

What really makes me sad is that Zhenya was finally growing into a real queen of ladies skating but the already messed scores of the last seasons ended messing everything ten times more and now we have this. It would have been enough if judges had given even only a couple less points in pcs to Alina over two programs and I don't think anyone would have complained that much (it would have been something like half a point less in PE IN and CO. If we talk about glo, even SS and TR). What were they expecting to happen, bumping pcs up of 15 points in a few months? All of this with Zhenya being out with an injury...

Tbh it is even scarier because judges were totally ready to do the same in men but the young guns flopped too much in the first half of the season to give them a pcs boost like for Alina, and then Nathan bombed the sp twice at olys. I don't even want to think about what would have happened otherwise, I'm just grateful some skating god make things right at least in that event.

And people dare to complain about backloading and quads. It's the judging that lead to these kind of things, not the skaters nor their strategies. 

But I guess ISU will just write some new rule to limit backloading and quads and let the elephant in the room to its own devices. 

Just now, PapiandPooh422 said:

The very "talented" cameramen cut Nathan's jumo tho'.

 

I just saw it... How rude.

I was rooting for Med too but I just can't be too disappointed about this. Med's skate today was my favorite of her skates in this season, her artistry has improved a lot. I don't have anything really against Zagi but against the judges... But yeah, the mens, ice dance & pairs podiums were great, I'm just concentrating on that now. And looking forward to the gala

What.

 

An.

 

Olympics.

 

Can you believe...it's over? Somehow this ladies' OGM doesn't seem as...monumental as the last one or the one before it.

20 minutes ago, yuzuangel said:

 

"Congrats to Zagitova on her strategy and win." lol Jeff 

This Olympics felt short but also I felt like i aged 87 years. 

Evgenia....  Props to Alina for those nerves though

I hope this'll cheer her up 

 

3 minutes ago, yuzuangel said:

What.

 

An.

 

Olympics.

 

Can you believe...it's over? Somehow this ladies' OGM doesn't seem as...monumental as the last one or the one before it.

 

Adelina's OGM seemed monumental? O_o It was before my interest in FS but I got a totally different impression afterwards....