Michelle Kwan, such beauty and grace! Truly beautiful skating. Frank Carol trained her well! East of Eden and Michelle's beautiful interpretation of it always makes me cry.
Irina was always a very good skater - when ‘on’ her jumps were huge, her spins fast. What she didn’t have was finesse - she was fast but rushed - her choreo was dreadful mostly and she could be sloppy and not ‘finish’ her moves and one mistake usually flustered her. Michelle, had smaller jumps, was slower and hit fewer positions than irina - technically she couldn’t keep up in the new points era. Michelle’s qualities were artistic, finesse, line, heart, choreo, packaging. A true all rounder but that didn’t stack up at all in the new era
Michelle Kwan, such beauty and grace! Truly beautiful skating. Frank Carol trained her well! East of Eden and Michelle's beautiful interpretation of it always makes me cry.
Irina was never a great skater. Her marks were inflated to create interest in the sport.
The awful Truth.
Much better than Sarah Hughes....
Say it louder for the people in the back🎉🎉 it’s like the judges decided to like her after her health scare when she has essentially stayed the same 😂
Irina was always a very good skater - when ‘on’ her jumps were huge, her spins fast. What she didn’t have was finesse - she was fast but rushed - her choreo was dreadful mostly and she could be sloppy and not ‘finish’ her moves and one mistake usually flustered her. Michelle, had smaller jumps, was slower and hit fewer positions than irina - technically she couldn’t keep up in the new points era. Michelle’s qualities were artistic, finesse, line, heart, choreo, packaging. A true all rounder but that didn’t stack up at all in the new era