Posted by Sari
Eugh. This was really dificult to judge. Joubert won fair and square. He is the kind of skater I don't like, but he has two strong concept programs, was very concistent with his jumping and though his spins are nothing to write home about they were OK. He did leave the door open by having only one combination (4t+3t), but nobody walked through or even crept to the treshold.
Poor Zhenya was held up, just a bit. Not so much in the first mark, his technical content even with two fallen jumps was impressive, but by having to go three times for the axel really should have affected the second mark more. Now the first two minutes of the program was jump, pose to the judges, jump, pose to the judges, jump...
Klimkin deserved his third place. I'd probably have him even second. He fell on his second 4t, and stepped out from both of his 3f attempts, but he had two solid combinations (3a+3t, 4t+3t), really cool camel variations and back-outside spins, neat entries to jumps, nice linking moves and the kind of avant-garde coreo that usually is more the french style.
Apparently, the federation have been making noises about Dambier's fourth place. Please! Good jump content though easer combos than Klimkin, mediocre spinning, and the linking movements: stroking forward and spread eagles. It still ain't called ice jumping you know. Personally, If Lambiel would have gotten that 3a, I would have put him ahead of Dambier in the free.
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