Time to catch up on recent events, most notably the Finnish Nationals ofcourse.
Earlier in the week on december 6th it was Finnish Independance Day and both Susanna and Kiira were invited to the traditional Independance Day Reception at the Presidential Palace ...
Three days later both were beaten to the crown by Laura Lepistö, coincidence or not? Probably not as Kiira Korpi led all skaters after the short program with a new personal best score of 64.20! (previously 58.22) Second on the day was Laura Lepistö with 59.02 followed by Susanna's 56.00. Which is close to her PB so not bad at all and a new PB would have been needed to climb up the rankings today.
On to the second day, free skate. Based on a short video clip I would say Lepistö is the only one of the top three to skate an error-free program as Kiira Korpi singled a jump and Susanna fell hard after one of her jumps. Laura Lepistö scored a 105.74, a massive 14.64 points higher than her previous free skate PB earlier last month at the NHK Trophy (91.10). Kiira Korpi scored a 100.20 just 1.54 short of her PB giving her a total score of 164.40 leaving her the tiniest of margins (0.36) behind Laura Lepistö the new Finnish Champion with a total of 164.76, also a new personal best! Susanna finished third both overall and in the free skate with a 91.35 (including a 2.00 point deduction) free skate and a 147.35 total score. Again well under her PB's but as long as something positive can be gained from it on the way to Vancouver 2010 it may not seem so bad in a few years time.
All in all a thoroughly deserved crown for Laura Lepistö who even manages to exceed my own high expectations of her this year ... so congratulations Laura!
2 comments:
I'm so disapointed for her.
She will not go at the Euro it's so sad.
Congrat to Laura I love her so much, she's a really nice skater
C'est vrai ...
Oh yeah, maybe at the end of this week I can already get you "the video" ;)
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