LADIES
1 AUS Phoebe Di Tommaso
2 BEL Isabelle Pieman
3 CAN Diane Szmiett
4 DEN Karina Johnson 5 FIN Kiira Korpi
6 GER Katharina Häcker
7 GER Sarah Hecken
8 GER Sandy Hoffmann
9 GBR Jenna McCorkell
10 ITA Carolina Kostner
11 ITA Valentina Marchei
12 JPN Kanako Murakami
13 MEX Reyna Hamui
14 PUR Victoria Muniz
15 SLO Nika Ceric
16 RSA Lejeanne Marais
17 SWE Joshi Helgesson
18 SWE Viktoria Helgesson
19 SUI Myriam Leuenberger
20 USA Melissa Bulanhagui
21 USA Ashley Wagner
This competition’s level is higher than last year, with so many good athletes. Go for it, Kiira!
(P.S.: All the best wishes to Laura, who’s actually suffering for an injury: get well soon, Laura)
From the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club, where for four years was a student of Brian Orser, Yu-Na Kim moved to Granite Club, where’s working the former Canadian dance champion Shae-Lynn Bourne, the same where also Kiira practised. No more danger, therefore, to come face to face with the former coach. Kim assigned to Shae-Lynn, who has been working successfully as a choreographer, the preparation of his new Short Program, after working for Free Skating with his usual choreographer David Wilson.
Just the FS was one of the last causes of division between the skater and Orser, who has revealed to the agency France Presse that the music will be used by his former student (a mix of korean music, including folk song “Arirang”). The entourage of Kim didn’t like it, and accused Orser of having deliberately given the information without authorization, to harm the athlete. The Canadian coach had spoken to praise his former pupil, “is a fantastic program, the best I’ve seen so far,” he said, but there you are, the misstep was done.
For its part, Orser had previously complained of a lack of respect for the team of Korean skater, saying he felt insulted.
Puma’s new Women Training collection features both Kiira and Petra Korpi as it’s cover faces. The collection will be available during this autumn, and includes clothing for various sports such as running, fitness, gym and dancing. This was the first commercial photo shoot for Petra and also the first time both of them are appearing together in an ad.
“Petra and Kiira are the best possible faces to represent our Puma Women Training collection. Glorious sisters are sporty and elegant young women and also great role models for younger people. Petra and Kiira have a healthy humorous attitude toward sports. Instead of “blood, sweat and tears” they have fun while doing sports – exactly what Puma wants to say.” Says Puma Finland’s head of advertising Sanna Hautala.
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After a long boring time for figure skating fans, the 2010-2011 season will start soon. It won’t be long – just 3 months!
For the coming season, we’ll try to improve the site, as we always have not satisfied you all about the contents… maybe you think so also.
So, could you tell us your “wants and needs” and ideas for the site?
We are thinking about improvements such as:
Forums – make it simple, easy and better to use
Photo gallery – archives from the past articles
Kiira’s database – her profile, competition scores and programs, fan mail address…
ISU announced the assignments of Grand Prix Series 2010.
Kiira Korpi will participate to NHK Trophy in Japan (!) and Trophée Eric Bompard Cachemire in France.
The STLL, Suomen Taitoluisteluliitto, announced here that Finnish Olympic Committee has decided a contribution of 740000 euro for Finnish Winter Sports Federations, also within sight of next Olympics of Sochi 2014.
Figure Skating will receive 80000 euros for five athletes (by the way, where’s Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari? He decided his retirement? I don’t think so, I’ve had no news about that… why he’s not in the list? He has had any kind of divergence with STLL? This could explain the “conditional” to his subsidie…); but, e.g. they planned 100000 euros to Snowboarding (!), 180000 euros to Cross Country (!!)… maybe Figure Skating should have deserved more attention and resources, for his popularity all over the world. Yes, 80000 euros does it mean 16000 euro for each athlete: but I can imagine I’m not so far from truth, if I think that amount only will cover Kiira’s expenses for her Canadian programs… or maybe money will not divided in equal parts?
Besides, Kiira (with Laura and Beata Papp, who’ll be my favourite skater in the future after Kiira ), will receive other 2000 euros from a Finnish Foundation who supports most talented athletes.
I collected results of past Kiira’s season: I divided them in SP and FS.
Sometimes, base value for an element was different from usual: numbered notes are referred to the value in that competition. I also added an average of Components of Kiira during all last season.
All data took from ISU (http://www.isu.org): note “dg” means “downgraded jump”.
SP EXECUTED ELEMENTS
Base Value
Nebelhorn
Finlandia
Universiad
Bompard
Euros
Olympics
Worlds
2Lz+2T
3.20
2.20
3Lz+2T
7.30
6.90
6.70
7.90
3Lz+Combo
1.90
3.00(1)
0.90 (dg)
0.90 (dg)
SpSq4
3.40
4.40
4.40
4.40
4.40
4.40
4.20
4.00
3Lo
5.00
4.00
5.83
5.00
5.60
6.00
5.80
5.60
LSp2
1.90
2.40
2.40
2.30
2.60
LSp3
2.40
2.90
2.70
2.90
FSSp4
3.00
3.10
3.25
3.50
3.40
3.30
3.40
3.14
SISt2
2.30
2.80
SISt3
3.30
3.80
3.80
3.70
3.70
3.70
3.60
2A
3.50
3.90
4.17
3.70
3.50
4.50
3.02
2.54
CCoSp1
2.00
2.33
CCoSp3
3.00
3.30
CCoSp4
3.50
4.00
4.00
4.10
4.00
4.00
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
Factor/Average
S c o r e s
Skating Skills
0.80 / 6.71
6.65
7.04
6.30
6.65
6.90
6.75
6.70
Transitions / Linking Footwork
0.80 / 6.26
6.15
6.54
5.85
6.05
6.70
6.30
6.25
Performance / Execution
0.80 / 6.64
6.50
6.96
6.25
6.60
7.10
6.50
6.60
Choreography / Composition
0.80 / 6.61
6.45
6.88
6.40
6.50
6.90
6.60
6.55
Interpretation
0.80 / 6.64
6.55
7.00
6.40
6.45
7.00
6.65
6.45
(1) Base value was 6.00
FS EXECUTED ELEMENTS
Base Value
Nebelhorn
Finlandia
Universiad
Bompard
Euros
Olympics
Worlds
3Lz+2T
7.30
7.30
6.30
6.70
7.30
1Lz
0.60
0.40
3Lz
6.00
1.06 (dg) (6)
4.00
2S+2A+SEQ
3.84
3.52
3S+2A+SEQ
6.40
7.40
7.00
3S+2T
5.80
6.20
5.80
5.80
1F
0.50
0.36
3F
5.50
4.50
5.50
FCoSp3
2.50
2.60
FCoSp4
3.00
3.50
3.50
3.50
3.40
3.40
1S
0.40
0.16
0.38
2S
1.30
1.30
0.10 (dg)(2)
3S
4.50
1.50
SpSq2
2.30
2.80
SpSq3
3.10
3.40
3.30
3.60
SpSq4
3.40
4.23
4.40
4.80
1Lo
0.55x
0.51
0.48(7)
0.55
0.51
0.39
2Lo
1.65x
1.65
1.60(1)
1.95
3Lo
5.00
5.40
3.50
5.00
5.00
1.52 (dg)(5)
3Lo+2T+2T
4.51x
4.15 (dg)
2A+2T+2Lo
6.93x
6.77
7.13
2A+2T+2T
6.71x
6.71
2A+2T
4.29x
3.89 (dg)
5.28/5.12(3)
0.90 (dg)(4)
3T
1.43x
0,43 (dg)
FSSp2
2.30
2.30
2.70
FSSp4
3.00
3.00
3.30
3.20
3.40
3.10
SISt2
2.30
2.55
SISt3
3.30
3.50
3.80
3.60
3.60
3.80
3.60
1A
0.88x
0.88
2A
3.85x
3.85
3.85
3.85
3.85
3.53
CCoSp3
3.00
3.50
3.33
CCoSp4
3.50
3.80
4.00
3.90
4.00
3.90
CUSp4
2.90
3.30
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
Factor/Average
S c o r e s
Skating Skills
1.60 / 6.57
6.65
6.21
6.40
6.45
7.25
6.85
6.15
Transitions / Linking Footwork
1.60 / 6.17
5.95
5.79
6.10
6.10
6.85
6.45
5.95
Performance / Execution
1.60 / 6.36
6.45
6.29
6.05
6.20
7.25
6.75
5.55
Choreography / Composition
1.60 / 6.42
6.40
5.96
6.30
6.45
7.15
6.70
6.00
Interpretation
1.60 / 6.42
6.35
6.13
6.35
6.35
7.15
6.80
5.80
(1) Base value was 1.50
(3) Base value was 5.28
(5) Base value was 1.50
(2) Base value was 0.40
(4) Base value was 1.32
(6) Base value was 1.90
(7) Base value was 0.50
No doubt: Kiira has at her bow some “strong weapons”, like Spirals Sequence and final Combination, and her Triple Loop is also very good. Everybody can make their own deductions from these numbers, but one thing is for sure, and I persist on my thought:
it seems choreography it hasn’t been for sure first of her problems, at all…
moreover, Kiira, what about Transitions? And linking steps? But, above all, I think she should work on her Performance/Execution… that’s the gap with the top, in my opinion.
I’d be interested in your opinion, Anna, ’cause I think you’re a competent person: what do you think about?
Kiira was awarded the student athlete of the year 2009 award last February, as we reported earlier. But since she couldn’t attend the award ceremony earlier, the award was given separately on Wednesday the 12th of May 2010.
The deputy rector of University of Tampere giving a speech
Kiira being interviewed
Kiira with Maaret Siromaa
In the ceremony at the University of Tampere there were representatives from the Finnish Student Sports Federation and University of Tampere. After the trophy ceremony Kiira told about how helpful they have been while combining sports and studying.
), will receive other 2000 euros from a Finnish Foundation who supports most talented athletes.
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