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Yuma Kagiyama has officially entered the rapidly growing top tier of Japanese men. That was pretty much the performance of the event, though maybe it looked all the more spectacular because of how badly everyone else skated that day. Also, it was very nice to see someone finally do justice to the Avatar soundtrack. Forget everything else about that movie, that score has deserved to see someone do it justice for ten long years, and someone finally did.
Nice as it was to see Daisuke Takahashi back, and also to see Kana Muramoto back with a partner with so much to contribute, they are going to have a steep curb if they want to vie for the top of even their own country. Misato Komatsubara & Timothy Koleto were already getting really good, and that free dance yesterday blew me away. And now that they're Olympic-eligible, it'll be really hard to dislodge them from Japan's likely one berth next season.
In fact, the competition for the Japanese Olympic teams might be a little nuts in three of the four disciplines, even if they get three berths in both ladies and men (And if Worlds gets canceled, who knows how the ISU will even determine that one.)
It's kind of a pity that the ISU will probably decline to homologate Wakaba Higuchi's triple axel due to a penalty none of the twelve ladies who landed it internationally before her had to worry about, and when more than one of them probably would've incurred it if they had. There's a point where you have to ask if the demands are getting a little too high.
Nice as it was to see Daisuke Takahashi back, and also to see Kana Muramoto back with a partner with so much to contribute, they are going to have a steep curb if they want to vie for the top of even their own country. Misato Komatsubara & Timothy Koleto were already getting really good, and that free dance yesterday blew me away. And now that they're Olympic-eligible, it'll be really hard to dislodge them from Japan's likely one berth next season.
In fact, the competition for the Japanese Olympic teams might be a little nuts in three of the four disciplines, even if they get three berths in both ladies and men (And if Worlds gets canceled, who knows how the ISU will even determine that one.)
It's kind of a pity that the ISU will probably decline to homologate Wakaba Higuchi's triple axel due to a penalty none of the twelve ladies who landed it internationally before her had to worry about, and when more than one of them probably would've incurred it if they had. There's a point where you have to ask if the demands are getting a little too high.
