Figure Skating at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[dcro 10,179]

And these are their FS base values given by score app...

 

Zagitova 66.01

Medvedeva 62.76

[NearPup 2,156]

Zagitova is out of this world technically but god is she a bore to watch. I really hole Medvedeva pulls it out.

Edited February 21, 2018 by NearPup

[hckošice 13,243]

Women´s Singles Free Skate Start List

[dcro 10,179]

Lovely performance for Nicole.

[hckošice 13,243]

Nicole

[heywoodu 13,547]

Vamos Isadora 

[dcro 10,179]

She'll probably drop to 24th

[NearPup 2,156]

Tough free skate for Isadora, but she did very very well to make the free skate. This is actually a pretty good result, hopefully she doesn't disappear for four years only to show up randomly in Germany in August 2021.

[vinipereira 3,053]

14 minutes ago, Nate River said:

Tough free skate for Isadora, but she did very very well to make the free skate. This is actually a pretty good result, hopefully she doesn't disappear for four years only to show up randomly in Germany in August 2021.

 

It's actually not that random that she (and some other brazilian athletes) only appear in Olympic season. Concentration of efforts (i.e. money) goes only for Olympic qualification, while in other years the support is pretty low, meaning they can't really participate in most competitions. She even had to launch a crowdfunding in order to buy better outfits (later some company gave them to her).

 

This goes the same way for most of the non-traditional winter nations, which olympic qualification seems to be the main goal. For good results, though, this has to change, obviously. You can't create a decent enough athlete with such restrictions.

[heywoodu 13,547]

3 minutes ago, vinipereira said:

 

It's actually not that random that she (and some other brazilian athletes) only appear in Olympic season. Concentration of efforts (i.e. money) goes only for Olympic qualification, while in other years the support is pretty low, meaning they can't really participate in most competitions. She even had to launch a crowdfunding in order to buy better outfits (later some company gave them to her).

 

This goes the same way for most of the non-traditional winter nations, which olympic qualification seems to be the main goal. For good results, though, this has to change, obviously. You can't create a decent enough athlete with such restrictions.

Not sure how it's for the ice sports federation, but as for the snow sports one in Brazil, funding is even a huge problem in the Olympic season itself, where athletes have to pay a certain - large - amount for the season (to the national federation), which can be made smaller by reaching certain criteria. 

 

So yeah, it's understandable to not see them as much as those of the big nations. 

Edited February 23, 2018 by heywoodu