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In case you missed it, here’s Kaori SAKAMOTO’s (坂本花織) QUAD TOPELOOP attempt from Four Continents 2020!
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Kaori Sakamoto (坂本花織, Sakamoto Kaori, born April 9, 2000) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2022 Olympic women’s singles bronze medalist, the 2022 Olympic team event silver medalist,[a] a three-time World champion (2022, 2023, 2024), the 2023–24 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2018 Four Continents champion, a five-time ISU Grand Prix champion, and a four-time Japanese national champion. At the junior level, she is the 2017 World Junior bronze medalist and the 2016–17 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist.
She is the first Japanese woman to win the World Championships since Mao Asada in 2014, the first Japanese skater to win three consecutive World titles in any discipline, and the first woman to win three consecutive World titles since Peggy Fleming (1966–1968).
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Сколько поп поотшибало на этих 4х, но это ещё не говорит о том, что эти фигуристки овладели квадами😭
I think it's an evident 3,5 toeloop. But she can improve a lot👍
Kaori and Liza are very similar : all through their careers they never stop looking for more. When she announced her retirement 1 year ago Liza was at still at her peak, landing 3As and practicing quads even if it never worked out, and Kaori is still practicing quad loop. If you look at the seniors right now, they're all regressing compared to what they used to do a few seasons ago (less backload, less or no 3-3 combos, consistency loss…). But Kaori is the only one who seems to still push herself past her limits, even if it doesn't work out every time, it looks like she's the only one looking for risks (which is essential to keep a sport alive). Amber starts to get consistent with her 3As but let's see.
Are juniors better than seniors ? Yes. Are seniors boring today ? Yes, if it's not for skaters like Kaori and Amber. I get that not everyone has the physical condition to train several ultra-Cs, but for the future of the discipline seniors really need to spice up their content a bit, if they don't want to look ridiculous when they're gonna be 20 points behind the juniors (and I'm not even talking about quads, we barely see any 3-3 combo in senior these days).
Kaori is 24, and her career won't last forever, especially in Japan where promising new seniors are gonna appear next season and the season after. One season you win the world championships, and the season after you don't even manage to qualify. The small fed skaters will remain, because their position is easier to maintain, but their level will either stagnate or regress with age.
why she didn't practice 3A tho, her 2A is huge, it has a lot of height, speed and distance sometime it looks like she squeeze another rotation in.
That is barely a triple…haha. But she is known to be the most overrated skater of today. Never a true champion.
Which skaters would you like to see next?