Karen still has the Love for Skating. As we witnessed here, she continues to shine brightly and fluidly with her moves of gliding gracefully, yet ever so powerfully in tune and with rhythm. She's actually painting on a canvas of ice set to poetry in motion -- absolutely beautiful inside and out. 💜
Lovely--the long sweeping moves across the ice, the beautiful extended leg positions--these are things we have lost in the competitive skating, which is often more about how many triple axels or triple toe loops rather than expression of the music. Flowing, relaxed, expressive, truly superb and a joy to watch.
She’s lovely to watch. I wish skaters and ISO would stop making quads the gold standard bar to be reached. Artistry is lost most often. It’s not that fun to just see (mostly men) doing quad after quad and every component in between meets the mark but is uninteresting and flat. She’s lovely here and artistic and enjoyable.
Umm... she's an AMERICAN. 2017 United States champion. Represented the USA at the Olympics in 2018 and 2022 and was part of the silver-medal winning team at the latter (which will be upgraded to a gold medal if the Court for Arbitration in Sport rules fairly and disqualifies the cheater Valieva for using banned substances and voids Russia's placement, and clean sport demands).