Hee hee! We both got we wanted. Sasha didn't win, and Shizuka did! At goldenskate yesterday, I picked her to win in a poll just because I thought she was a nice happy medium between "ugly but nice jumps" and "major extention, notoriously wobbly jumper."
I'm having a very hard time buying that she fell because she was injured. The second jump, the one she didn't quite fall on but stumbled out of, was a triple flip. Later in the program, she did that same jump, this time in combination with a double toe loop, and it was fine. I think it was just nerves again. To her credit, instead of giving up as she has in the past, she decided to fight for what remained of the program, and she got a medal for it.
Perhaps, but she was tumbling out of the triples even during the practice session before the last six. That suggests to me that it was probably something more physical. Probably minor, but enough to really put her off her game.
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