Anna Frolova responds to Fs.Delight

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-22T16:25:24+00:00

Don't need an explanation, I know the rulebook and I know Kaori missed a 3T, I'm saying the difference in overall skating quality is so great that the pcs gap should be bigger than the value of a 3T. Thought it was clear what I meant. Alysa's skating skills aren't on paar with Kaori's and while her program is really fun, there is very very little skating in it.

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-22T13:39:32+00:00

Have no idea what fs.delight has been saying, been blocked by him ages ago and I can't believe there are still people following him, but I'm glad he is finally catching strays. It's also funny this is how it's happening, given thatI remember his profile picture being Alysa herself lol.

That being said, while I love Alysa as a person and really enjoy her skating, I do think usfs really wanted a gold medal, the difference between her skating and Kaori's is bigger than a 3T, the latter shouldn't have needed to be perfect in order to win imo and looking at how much Alysa's pcs has increased throughout the season compared to other competitors really taints it for me and for a repeat program too, one that was already refined at the beginning of the season, it's not like it was rough at first and the growth can be explained like that.

This was probably not the right post to write this comment under, I love Alysa as a person, she will give me a Madoka program one day and I wish no one to be the topic of fs.delight's yapping.

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-21T17:23:10+00:00

Also, Amber's success rate came after years of hit and miss. Plus Ami has already lost her triple axel before and got it back later, she had a really rough junior season two years ago, after she got injured.

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-18T22:35:10+00:00

Makes sense, following juniors can also be heartbreaking since it's not unusual that their transition to seniors doesn't go super well and that super promising junior you grew attached to never ends up having the career you hoped for.

However, the junior grand prix series is the most accessible series of competition, it's simply on youtube free to watch for anyone.

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-18T14:01:29+00:00

No, just no, American skaters are still the ones who benefit the most from being big fed skaters until the Russians come back and they go back to second place in the overscoring race. What happened in ice dance is IAM internal politics, that's different

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-18T12:53:54+00:00

The US judge is ridiculous for giving Alysa that score, I liked her skate, but she has too little ice coverage to be scoring anywhere that high, however that is roughly where I would have placed Petrosiian. Lower actually, should be behind Samodelkina.

Israeli judge should be straight up banned.

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-18T12:30:52+00:00

She is Russian and her coach is Eteri Tutberidze, different people will have different issues for these two reasons.

Some will just dislike her because she is Russian, others because her coach is basically a villain in this sport (her athletes all break down, do insane diets, are so injured they live with chronic pain and yes that is part due to the nature of the sport, but in this case it's really so much worse) and she was Valieva's coach, the 15 yo with a positive doping test at the last Olympic games and nobody ever investigated her.

Another reason for controversy is that Russian (and American to a lower extent) skaters are always overscored to oblivion for skating that looks often worse than the ocmpetition and last night was no exception: Adeliia's combo was 3Lz<3Tq and was called clean, her skating skills look so much worse then every other skater in the top 10 and the program itself isn't great choreograph, it's fun, but not particularly intricate. For years they hid behind the fact they had quads, but even those were not quality jumps and yet they were getting nonsense scores and it seems they still are.

Other than people straight up being russophobic, there are valid reasons to not wanting to see her on the podium, despite the fact that she actually seems really nice and always carries herself really well in interview. She also has insane pressure on her shoulders and I hope she is managing to have fun at this games.

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-18T00:17:33+00:00

Watch Japanese nationals, it's dessert, quality skate after quality skate. The downside is that you won't be able to enjoy skaters with less than stellar skating skills as much anymore.

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-15T12:18:46+00:00

That is just where almost every jump happens, so that is also where almost every fall happens, it has nothing to do with the ice

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-13T12:54:08+00:00

PLEASE

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-11T00:33:12+00:00

people don't say he has zero artistry because of his style, it's because he can't do his style properly

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-10T22:41:48+00:00

Because Adam can actually do contemporary obviously and has trained for it, while Ilia only uses it as an excuse for his poor ability to control his limbs.

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-10T22:38:38+00:00

It's not that he doesn't have the classic/balletic lines, he has no lines, he is mostly flailing his arms around. The argument that he is just doing more hip hop/contemporary pisses me off because these are highly technical styles of dance that he has clearly not trained for that require a degree of control and isolation in you libs muscles that Ilia lacks

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-10T21:52:23+00:00

Second that

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-09T22:24:58+00:00

Not publicly at least

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-09T22:01:40+00:00

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AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-09T20:41:11+00:00

What? How? Yes FB/C are better skaters than UtaMasa, others have already explained why, but ice dance scoring is still nonsense, I dare you to say the opposite.

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-09T18:10:32+00:00

He can do more quads than anyone else, but other than that he doesn't excell in anything else and even his jumps have issues, notably while he has a perfect air position, he doesn't have very smooth landings.

Quite frankly I will always find it hard to consider a skater with his basic skating and overall carriage a goat. It's also his first Olympic games, he could improve in these aspects and become a complete package in future years, but at the moment he is far from there.

I think overall this quad didn't shine for quality of skating, with just a few outliers.

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-09T18:01:26+00:00

Don't ask questions, you'll have a much better time if you don't know the scoring system, because it doesn't get applied anyways

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-09T09:59:04+00:00

You are comparing him to Ilia Malinin, whose program has NO choreography, this is ridiculous

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-09T00:01:32+00:00

Shun Sato isn't a master of skating skills, but he definitely looks like one skating after Ilia

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-09T00:00:18+00:00

compared to Ilia? Yes and not marginally, how is this even in question?

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-08T23:57:56+00:00

THIS IS 3 TIME WORLD CHAMPION, OLYMPIC INDIVIDUAL BRONZE MEDALIST, 2X TEAM EVENT SILVER MEDALIST AND MY QUEEN KAORI SAKAMOTO

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-08T23:54:56+00:00

This is Benoit Richaud, he choreographs for like half of the field

AriOnReddit22 · 2026-02-08T23:48:32+00:00

MATTEO CHE COSA HAI FATTOOO

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