At least she didn't fall.....(≧ω≦)/

that includes the qualifying round, which was done away with years ago. her SP + FP was a much lower total.

How surprised that Sasha didn't fall on ice ......or she did ? (*^ω^*)

She was the perfect mix of fall down and beauty on the ice. （∩▽∩）

nicole?

Michelle kwan had the best spiral. Change of the edge spiral is Michelle's signature move.

Unfortunately, Sasha had to skate on crutches or she would fall everywhere on ice.

What??

Michelle kwan is Goddess. （∩▽∩）

Now we can see how Michelle impacted Sasha. Sasha honestly told people that she learned a lot from Michelle's performance.

Michelle is Yuna's idol. Yuna inspired by Michelle.

@@TT-ee4qp for sure

ARTHUR VERSO Why not Sarah Hughes? She was a lovely skater. Focus on whom you like--don't make a point of declaring whom you don't like. Too much drama in skating as it is.

NYCBlonde Sarah was not good...hunched shoulders long arms with poor technique. Only reason she won the Olympics was because of the judging controversy week prior. She seems sweet though

NYCBlonde Sarah cheated a lot of her jumps, including most of her jumps at the Olympics. Even the first jump in her combos would often be underrotated. She was kind of a fluke who benefited from a lenient judging system that didn’t deduct points for cheated jumps or even look for them in the first place.

@@evanperilstein5308 At 2002 Olympics, Sarah did a good job never happened before to win and she was lucky, because the other better skaters like Michelle and Irina made mistakes.

she didn't touch down on it though😂😂

Now people can see how Michelle impacted Sasha. Sasha honestly told people that she learned a lot from Michelle's performance.

are you blind? Irina was flawless and beautifully won 1st place

He's a believer in "american wonder" - it's when someone's nothing but gets the gold. It worked once, so nongrowing kids kept believing it may happen again.. sorry - it might happen again. No way, sorry for robber Cohen LOL

Irina skated like a bull in a china shop: wild with no real mastery of her edges and no beautiful positions. It was a shame the judges always awarded her for presentation scores that she didn't deserve.

Joshua Lerman I’m a huge Sasha fan, but Irina completely deserved her win here. She wasn’t graceful, but she skated fast and with exuberance and charisma. Her performance was very exciting. Plus, she didn’t make any mistakes, and it had more technical difficulty than Sasha’s. She did a clean 3Lz-3L, her jumps were huge, and some of her spins were just as difficult as Sasha’s (such as her change-foot biellmann). Sasha would have had to skate perfectly or very close to perfect (like maybe one two-foot landing or a minor step-out) to argue that she should have won here. Graceful skating, beautiful lines and extension, and superb artistry and interpretation can only take you so far. It is a sport, after all.

Matt G. I’m a huge Sasha fan, but Irina completely deserved her win here. She wasn’t graceful, but she skated fast and with exuberance and charisma. Her performance was very exciting. Plus, she didn’t make any mistakes, and it had more technical difficulty than Sasha’s. She did a clean 3Lz-3L, her jumps were huge, and some of her spins were just as difficult as Sasha’s (such as her change-foot biellmann). Sasha would have had to skate perfectly or very close to perfect (like maybe one two-foot landing or a minor step-out) to argue that she should have won here. Graceful skating, beautiful lines and extension, and superb artistry and interpretation can only take you so far. It is a sport, after all.

Katherine Knupp Sasha did not like to stray away from her comfort zone. Sasha was good at Artistry but she was lazy and did not practice enough.

was it true she didn't practice enough. This seems to be creeping out in the last few years. but never heard about when she was eligible. Whereas Bobek's laziness was legendary.

vistaprime David Wilson said something along the lines of Sasha having to do everything a particular way, that the preparation for each jump had to take a certain number of seconds and his choreography had to accommodate that. It kind of sounded like OCD to me, which would be the opposite of lazy.

Kat K She should have stayed with Tatiana Tarasova. That’s what she should have done. Her programs with Tarasova were her best ones, and she was still making mistakes, but they were more minor. She was actually building some consistency and doing long programs with just one or two minor mistakes in them. That’s why she was winning all of her Grand Prix events and the Grand Prix Final, and posting the highest scores under IJS at the time. She held the highest score for a sp until Yuna Kim at 2007 Worlds, and some of the highest scores for the lp for a few years as well. That was all under Tarasova. Robin Wagner didn’t work with her that long. She basically inherited what Tarasova had already done.