please welcome the next
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all
from the United States of America the list we
well it's pretty hard not to hear that last score over
the PA but someone's got to follow it and it's been a long time
coming this Grand Prix debut for the two time U. S. champion
from Richmond California
a listen live now sixteen years old
although
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the triple Axel has been a huge question mark but I saw
the beauty
in the six minute mark
this could be a huge statement and
it's gonna happen it's gonna happen here
and it happens
has the exact same program layout as
in terms of her jumping elements the triple triple
happens after the halfway point ten percent bonus
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this program check the technical score box you can see
despite doing the same job
elements
the difference between our current leader
and listen and that is all down to grade of execution
how well the elements were performed
wow did she deliver in that sport program she's been on
this comeback trail over the past year and there's been
a lot of question marks around what will happen to her in
the Olympic year
well to me it seems like she's peaking at just the right
moment interceding is just so special put aside
her technical ability
she just glows out there she just repeats joy there's this
exuberance that is infectious
it was a very impressive short program that's the best that
we've seen in quite some time she really has grown
artistically and emotionally out there on this but here
the triple Axel start a huge step for her
for including it in her program again
it did receive an under rotation that's one thing that
she has struggled with at times
in the past
and it hurts the grade of execution wave idea of was
doing the same job arms up overhead perfectly executed
clean landing with the big spiral at the and flexibility
doll that
Alyssa had a slightly under rotated triplex with a simpler
entry and exit so every little detail Celts at this high level
it definitely does
Johnny but I do feel that her jobs are
are more clean than they were last year even though she
received that under rotation and I think what she's been
working on she says I need to have more speed going into my
jobs I've always sort of felt afraid that speed would make
them feel out of
control but I realize it's only going to help them and I think
that speed gives her that extra lift that she needs to finish
that rotation
but it's still a work in progress
well I mean she became U. S. champion at thirteen I went you
know very well when you're thirteen years old your
strength is very different than even two or three years later
so when you're young you can kind of squirrel through things
where you have to be a little bit more methodical the older
you get here's me thirty seven still skating talking about
this
but it's it's it's a very different game you play with
your body and your mentality and
with the strength of age also comes the ability to fly in and
out of those jobs and that definitely is a good note for
her to get strong graduate a concern I UP next
this is an exciting group
really is it's an Olympic year J.
you can feel it you can feel it in every hallway of a skating
venue right now and it's palpable
this
so scores are in now for the short program from Alyssa lieu
of the United States she was fourth at the west
championships last season by
two time U. S. champion
point seventy three point six degrees the number remember
can me less scoring
over eighty four
you see where that ranks and and by the way guys just
looking at the score of that triple Axel loan cumulus going
in nine point six a list is receiving a five point three so
that's almost four and a half points on that one element
alone
in difference between the two