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one smile will win all hearts a smile
that would have inspired Italy's
greatest artists who will be Torinos
Mona Lisa
Anais
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a capacity crowd awaiting the free skate
tonight here are the standings after the
short program it's oh so close from
first to third one point separating the
top three cone of the United States
ahead of Slutskaya of Russia and era
Kawa of Japan the lead Canadian going
into this free skate is Joannie Rochette
she's ninth after short and
sixteen-year-old Marilee young is 14
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Marilee young from Vancouver the
youngest figure skater on the Canadian
Olympic team still eligible to be in the
junior ranks but this is a very strong
and a very serious young skater
determined to skate in the big leagues
as it were a silver medalist this year
at the Canadian Championships to qualify
for Torino 14th after the short
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Terracotta Warriors
the last year she was she was not
pleased with her marks or no marks so
she went to work on a brand new free
program which came in to Canadians
looking like a new mirror very mature
very senior
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big triple
this program comes from a Chinese action
musical about those terracotta warriors
discovered back in 1974 7,000 life-sized
warriors and horses near the tomb of kin
chief Wang who was entombed in 2006 BC
second triple jump
schedule triple lutz very nice
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was a double
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era made her Olympic debut with a clean
and confident short program that has
really set the tone for her type and you
can see she is not rattled by skating in
fact a full house on the Olympic stage
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combination scheduled here triple toe
double toe
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this job gives her problem sometimes and
yes she singled the schedule double axel
in there
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second triple
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we'll receive bonus
because it's late in the program past
the halfway mark
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nice triple double double combination
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suitable she is a warrior
she pushed that rate to the end
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the next generation Vancouver zone
with what bang go be an Olympic dress
rehearsal for Vancouver
it's great to see the determination and
hard work of an athlete pay off in
spades at the biggest event to this
point of her career here's a look at her
triple toe double toe combination
connecting steps demonstrating a good
degree of control into this triple lutz
good patience into the double loop she
often skip get in her jumps gets into a
little bit of an awkward position there
on the takeoff there's a triple flip but
for some reason she manages to just pull
it together and get it up in the air
remember in the this new scoring system
every single element counts two mistakes
she made who cost her about five points
when she downgraded those two jumps that
will be reflected in the first mark
Marilee young is capable of scoring in
the low-90s give her free skate let's
see what she gets here tonight
Wow look at those technical marks
fifty-one eighty-three program
components though about ten points later
but this is folks a brand new personal
best for Marilee young of Canada and she
does it in her Olympic debut here in
Torino she hears the news she delivered
the best fries
right now is in first place on the ice
now the 2-time Canadian champion from
Montreal
this is Joannie Rochette she has worked
so hard to peak at just the right time
for these games last year she had two of
the best programs of best-trained
programs in the world three weeks before
the start of the year left her longtime
coach man opener all in a disagreement
over training they reunited this season
and she comes into this program to the
shore
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a bit of a problem with in the short oh
she can't
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combination to Lutz it has gone
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carrying Goodspeed into this job a
triple loop
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johnny has
sequester yourself for the last couple
of
pre-final in training it's alien
came here with she felt higher levels
and some of her elements and her spins
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they're going to the triple salchow
they're seeds here
to maintain the speed that's required
for this next jump
no double
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stumble their focus here
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hangs on the land
the third jump of that jump combination
triple toe double toe double loop
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yes
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Julie Lucia
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Oh limpet free skate and she fought
right through that program to the very
end she did gave me chills she fought
all the way and so far that's been the
performance of the night
here's a look at her triple luxe at the
start she was so sure so on top of that
job
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it just looks so relaxed out there good
for her to hang on to the landing of
that triple saw it was on quite a lean
in the air Joannie Rochette of Canada
the 2-time Canadian champion with coach
men apparel you know when she broke up
with an O last year she won two Grand
Prix medals and her first ever Grand
Prix Final Medal of bronze but then she
fell apart enroute to the worlds and
lost her focus and finished 11th and
that's what brought them back together
and look at this together this team of
coach and skater have put together a
score of 111 3.42
that is very close to a new personal
best for the Canadian but when combined
with her short program it will give her
a score of 167 point two seven and the
lead
Joannie Rochette
sasha cohen of the united states the
coach Johnny Nix with final words of
encouragement the leader by just three
one hundreds of a point ahead of the
world champion Irina Slutskaya after the
share program twice she has been
runner-up at the World Championship -
scoffs kaya and shizuka arakawa of Japan
she is the new US Champion the first
time there has been a new champion other
than Michelle Kwan in nine years sasha
cohen was fourth four years ago in Salt
Lake City as a 17-year old she had a
chance for a medal but a flawed free
skate left her one spot off the podium
can she skate cleanly under the pressure
here as the leader in the Olympic
spotlight she has been known to crack
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now their triple flip attempt here so
she can do this one
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Mexican lake press 400 pounds believe it
or not she was saying my land my jobs I
land on a column rather than Luis
spaghetti meant as I used to skate
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my rules
expression are works of art thing nobody
does it better than that
final jump is a wonderfully executed
triple salchow
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it's usually that job that lets her down
at the end of the program today
two jobs
what is
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an opportunity lost we'll find out at
Sasha :
again succumbed to the pressure of the
world spotlight barb as you mentioned in
a fashion that's not the norm she
reversed at this time it was the front
end of the program that gave her the
greatest amount of difficulty
she has longed for years to step out of
the background from Michelle Kwan and
Irina Slutskaya that era cow and this
was her chance tonight and I have to
wonder if maybe she's struggling with an
injury that she didn't want anybody to
know about because she stayed away from
this sight for so long she did not
practice very often and to me it looks
like she has her left leg wrapped and
that's something that obviously they've
wanted to keep under wraps here's how
the program began it's supposed to be a
triple lutz combination jump just as you
heard her say just didn't get up in the
air on those jumps
this was the next attempted combination
again not enough height touching down
with both feet no time to get the free
leg out from the air position
but you strike such magical lines when
she's out there she just can't hit a bad
one sasha cohen who has given up so much
going to bed at 10 o'clock every night
even going to bed early on her 21st
birthday when her friends stayed up
celebrating in her own home gave it all
up disappointing free skate look at the
strength of the second mark 61 is a boat
14 points below her personal best but it
will move americans sasha cohen into
first place with a total score combining
her short with her free skate of 183
point three six points the door is wide
open now for the likes of shizuka
arakawa Irina Slutskaya
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here she is the
world champion from two years ago in
dierckman Japan's shizuka arakawa who
went through a tough season last year
contemplated retirement lost her
interests in her motivation with
injuries and boot problems and
homesickness from traveling the world
for international coaching but she has
come back and she is peaking at these
games in third place after the short
program but just seven tenths of a point
out and been skating with a
determination
it just said I am here to win changed
her free program just weeks ago going
back to Turandot program with which she
won the gold medal two years ago at the
World Championships setting up here
triple lutz combination double loop
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how comfortable she's feeling she's very
capable of doing a triple triple
combination right here south double toe
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based on what's gone on so hard tonight
you have to wonder if anyone will risk
the triplet Ripple
third jump element
triple flip
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beautiful extension in this spin
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exquisite control
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for her to go back to this program the
program that really works for her
such a wonderful moment at the end
second triple lutz
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the loom
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beautiful either Bauer
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to the south double toe double loop
combination
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take this home
she's done well that one brought me
chills
no she wasn't ready for retirement she
had this still left in her at the
Olympic Winter Games shizuka arakawa
going back to an old program that won
her gold at the World Championships two
years ago and she rekindles that golden
glow here tonight you really can't put
it into perspective what it means to go
back to an old program one that you know
works one that gives you the confidence
of taking the ice knowing that the
vehicle should you skate it as well as
you possibly can is and could be the
very best in the world look at the
height she gets on his triple lutz
double loop combination outstanding
speed in and out of her jumps the one
thing that was lacking was a triple
triple combination which she's been
practicing all week was not here tonight
and she did leave some points on the
table when she did a double loop instead
of a triple loop but overall a
magnificent performance
crowd erupts here look at these numbers
sixty-two point three to four technical
elements 63 even four program components
shizuka arakawa has a new personal best
here on Olympic ice one hundred twenty
five point three two points the third
highest free skate under this new
scoring system in the world and she
moves into first place with a total of
one hundred ninety one point three four
ahead of sasha Cohen
Irina Slutskaya the two-time and
reigning world champion the silver
medalists four years ago in Salt Lake
City when she lost to 16 year old Sarah
Hughes after being the favorite the
Olympic gold is the one accolade in this
court she has yet to win coach Zhanna
krumova giving her her final
instructions words of advice a deep
breath for composure Irina Slutskaya has
seen everyone come before her and she is
the last skater of the night seven times
European champion breaking the record of
six she held with Katharina vut and
Sonya Haney huge Russian crowd here
tonight to perhaps
witness history Russia has never won an
Olympic gold medal in women's figure
skating Irina Slutskaya gathering
herself here now to skate for gold
second after the short program skating
to a flamenco medley
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she with the turtle lutz double loop
combination
beautiful xxx but she didn't do the W on
the ends
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another difficult jump combination here
starting with a triple salchow double
toe double loop
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to that triple flip
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this woman has made such a miraculous
and rape comeback to this sport
three years ago missing the world
championships mother in need of a kidney
transplant then she herself hospitalized
with a serious heart problem and unable
to even walk properly for three months
came back to the worlds in Dortmund in
2004 utter shape and on medication and
against doctor's order to skate night
and then last year on home I said Moscow
an incredible emotional
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now the triple flip must in combination
should turn it into a double also
doubled one of her jumps oh so far
they're neck-and-neck it was this next
jump that Eric Howard doubled
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and that's a shocker
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giving away the gold
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and there's not enough opportunity now
left in this program because she's used
up all seven jump opportunities
mr. Luke felt hard on it which will be a
one point deduction
plus the minus 3 on the Geo
combined with the error of the triple
I don't think this program stacks up
choreographically against our Carla's
turn daughter
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I don't think it will be any decision
here I think our power hub will win on
both marks we shall see
which guy of Russia has left some don't
falling on her triple loop doubling
another the last skate of the night and
she is exhausted as the Russians cheer
her on the Olympic gold the one medal
that has eluded here may have gotten
away from her grasp in this game
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there's a look at the triple Sal that
she opened with triple salchow double
loop in the program open really well
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she doesn't have a strong spiral so she
uses this female beal mint position
quite often
triple flip jump here that was to turned
into a double that was the first mistake
that one she might have been able to
have survived but this one will prove to
be the difference this was to have been
a triple loop jump traveling threes into
it good degree of difficulty but they're
the edged hits when it lands she down
she goes and remember there's an
automatic -1 for the fall plus the goe
on that jump has to come down by a minus
three
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Irina Slutskaya was in second place
after the short program three 100's of a
point behind sasha cohen only seven
tenths of a point ahead of Shizuka
Arakawa of Japan the current leader now
we've done some math and Slutskaya will
need a score of about a hundred and
twenty five here to move ahead of air
okawa it's well within her reach her
personal best is 130 point four eight
but with these markdowns it may not be
enough now the scores for the reigning
world champion no no no fifty three
point eight seven not nearly enough
sixty one eighty seven and Irina
Slutskaya has a score of 114 74 one of
her lowest ever is a free skate this
season combined with her short program
she'll have a combined score of 180 1.44
it will not be enough to win the gold
medal
let's guy out we'll settle for bronze
Cohen as
and shizuka arakawa of japan has won
Japan's first-ever gold medal and
women's figure skating and the first
medal of these games for Japan
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so here are the final results shizuka
arakawa comes from third in the short
program to win the gold the first ever
for Japan ahead of Sasha kaun of the
United States who is the runner up once
again after two silvers in the World
Championships she wins Olympic silver
here tonight Irina Slutskaya the
reigning world champion will settle for
bronze but what an Olympic performance
by Joannie Rochette of Canada
she is fifth overall the best finish by
a Canadian woman since Elizabeth Manley
won silver in 1988 and young merrily
young the 16 year old from Vancouver
will finish 12th in her Olympic debut