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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2022 2:00:41 GMT
US Olympic Figure Skater Breaks Down Figure Skating in Movies, Part 2 | GQ Sports 29,203 views • Feb 18, 2022 • Mariah Bell, US Olympic figure skater, breaks down figure skating in movies, including The Cutting Edge 2,' 'The Mighty Ducks,' 'Blades of Glory,' 'Kiss and Cry,' 'Ice Girls,' 'Ice Castles' and 'Go Figure.'
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Post by Admin on Mar 22, 2022 19:06:21 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 22, 2022 20:27:41 GMT
A More Open Women’s Event With their array of triple-triple combinations, triple axels and quads, Russian women have won five of the last six world titles. They took three of the top four women’s spots at the Olympics last month, including the gold and silver medals. To say their absence will be felt in Montpellier is a severe understatement.
“Obviously, results will look different,” U.S. champion Mariah Bell, 25, said last week. “It’s exciting, there’s maybe some opportunity to bump up. Ultimately, I’m not thinking too much about it. That’s been my motto my whole career. … The most reliable thing is just to focus on myself.”
Japan’s Olympic bronze medalist Kaori Sakamoto and her teammate Wakaba Higuchi, who landed triple axels in both of her programs in Beijing, look strong for medals. So does Young You of South Korea, who placed sixth at the Games.
Team USA’s best medal hope is two-time U.S. champion Alysa Liu, who took seventh at the Olympics. While the 16-year-old failed to fully rotate her triple axel in Beijing, her other jumps — including her triple-triple combinations — were solid, as were her spins and steps. If Liu lands on the podium, it would be the first women’s world medal since Ashley Wagner won silver in 2016.
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2022 15:21:53 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2022 18:22:25 GMT
Americans Mariah Bell and Alysa Liu are third and fifth after the world figure skating championships short program, looking to deliver the first U.S. women’s medal in six years and in the absence of Russian stars. The national champion Bell recorded a personal-best 72.55 points, which is 7.77 behind leader Kaori Sakamoto and 2.45 points behind Belgian Loena Hendrickx going into Friday’s free skate in Montpellier, France, Liu followed with 71.91 points, .17 behind South Korean You Young for fourth place. A non-Russian will win the world title for the first time since 2018 due to that nation’s ban after the invasion of Ukraine. Russians swept the medals at last year’s world championships and finished first, second and fourth at the Olympics last month. Sakamoto, the Olympic bronze medalist, entered as the favorite and delivered a clean short capped by a triple flip-triple toe loop combination. “With the Russian skaters no longer taking part in this competition, all of the sudden I was considered to be the gold medalist candidate,” Sakamoto said, according to the International Skating Union. “In the beginning, because I wasn’t really in top form, it was hard for me to try to push myself, and I also felt a gap between where I was and where I wanted to be. But over the days my performance started to really pick up, and gradually I was able to tell myself it wasn’t really the result that counted.” Bell, 10th at the Olympics, and Liu, seventh at the Olympics, are bidding to become the first U.S. woman to win a world medal since Ashley Wagner took silver in 2016, ending a 10-year drought. Bell, after FaceTiming with coach Adam Rippon, who is not on site, opened her short with a triple flip-triple toe combo. Bell then FaceTimed again with Rippon after her skate, for which she upped her previous personal best from the 2019 Worlds. “I didn’t think about it much coming in, about placements,” Bell said, according to the ISU.
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