It's one o clock in the west
Dejah's Figure Skating blog includes running commentaries on the ladies' program.
Figure Skating SPOILERS: Ladies Short G1 includes Kimmie Meissner, the two Finnish skaters (Susanna Poykio and Kiira Korpi), and others.
For Suomi-like people, here's what Dejah said about the Finns:
FIN POYKIO Susanna
pink with criss crossy white straps and 3 tier skirt darkening to magenta
heroic music
3Z-2T nice. jazzy music/ arm waving steps to 3F wonky lancing slying came; inside halt beill. slinky music. nice 2A. arm waving. ugly spiral to nice side spiral nice f spiral ch edge steady back beill spiral ugly sideway lean to layback to beill. back to jazzy music SL FW slow carefully done. not selling it. camel sit cannon layback foot to head ch sit inside catchfoot.
Jazzy music for a skater who cannot sell it really doesn't work all that well.
28.43 + 25.31 = 53.74
FIN KORPI Kiira
bubblegum pink with chiffon sleeves and skirt. Pretty, but VERY pink. Korpi is, as usuall gorgeous
vilion music nice stroking. stalking 2L(?)-2T, steps tonice 3F. nice sideways lean to eh layback. good speed in circle FW but nicely gentle for hte music. music does not do much2A but she does a LOT with it. came;l nice sit cannon catch ch sit inside (traveling), sasha catchfoot. music gets more intense. spiral ch edge nice. back beillman nice catchfoot side axel sit spin outside and another position I missed.
I have seen Korpi only once before and i recall she is not so great in the jumps, otherwise, she is a lovely skater... just really lovely. She's lovely to look at and lovely to watch. BOY, does she look like Jenny Kirk!
23.84 + 21.00 = 44.84
Also see part 2 and part 3. Unfortunately, she missed some of the skaters.
Incidentally, Dejah received an award for her blogging coverage:
The 2006 Winter Olympics is full of drama and stories like every other Olympics and yet, as with every Olympics, they are endlessly new and engaging. Stories write themselves, and photoblogs and videos overflow with energetic images. Podcasters and bloggers report directly from Torino; commentary races around the Web, full of gossip, news, and views....
Technology writer Dejah does a full-personality edge-to-edge analysis of the figure skating competition. Definitely worth having the Figure Skating Blog open while watching the skating events.
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