I find frustrating that everybody can see only her mistakes and call her a double salchow champion..it's not that she did only doubles!
you say that obviously she planned the doubles and no 3-3? well you are wrong! she is planning the 3f3t in her program and she didn't do that in zagreb because she didn't land the flip very well slowing her speed to much to attach the 3t...as for the double salchow well she was really tired as she said and really didn't have strenght in her legs....don't forget that if for most of the skater this is middle season, for her it's the beginning!
plus I wasn't say that with the performance of saturday she should win over kim...I was saying if both skate clean with all the triples they plans the competition would be close...and a personally give a slightly edge to carolina for the reason I explained in my previous post
If I'm going to bet money on who is more likely to land 5/6 triples, and land a difficult 3/3 in the short program, my money is on Kim. I adore Kostner but she doesn't have the consistency on the difficult elements Kim has.....And I totally could live with Kostner Olympic Champ...She's one of my faves.
Kostner is skating beautifully but she's downgraded a lot of content...She's adding it in, but its still been a long time since she's actually DONE a 3flip/3toe in competition.
Kim still reels out that 3lutz/3toe like its nothing- in competition... And has never really downgraded content. Which I think gives Kim frankly a mental advantage. I think downgrading content was the right thing for Kostner to do for her own mental skating. But I also respect Kim a lot for the fact that really she never downgrades her content (she doesn't do the 3loop because its too inconsistent).. She always went for the 3lutz/3toe, double axel/3toe-every competition.
And its a mental advantage because it becomes second nature...
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