OMG Elizaveta Tuktamysheva's 3axel in the Ladies Short at Worlds. Wow. Her technical scores were so far ahead of Elena Radionova's that she literally left all her competitors in the dust. I'm thrilled to see the Russian skater finally throw that stellar element in her program. It's head-and-shoulders a better 3axel than anything we've seen since the days of Tonya Harding and Midori Ito. It's not a spinny little underrotated thing, it's a kick-butt-and-take names kind of jump. Bravo!
Here's a video of her performance in Shanghai:
The American ladies bombed the short, with Polina Edmunds placing highest at a very unimpressive 7th place. Ashley Wagner had one of her signature meltdowns, Gracie Gold wasn't herself, and Polina Edmunds continues to get downgrades and lower grades of execution.
We'll get more from the ladies on Friday night at 10:30 pm!
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