Remember When: Skate America 2019 Ladies Free Program

The final installment of today's blog posts (annoyed yet? probably). It's a good thing, too, because I'm running out of things to write.

The ladies were fireworks and sparkles and fun. I would have preferred the men or the dance to close out the competition, but it was still a decent competition to end with. Quads and costume "changes" were what won the day, but it was nice to see the US hold their own and the "elder" Russian make a stand. 

Overall the outcome wasn't all that surprising, though it was weird to see USA and not Japan on the podium. I want to be as flexible as these ladies, that's for sure. Some of the positions they are able to contort themselves into still make me hurt just thinking about it.

As with the other blog posts (Pairs Free, Mens Free, Free Dance) I'll keep to the two photos per skater and you can view all of my photos from Skate America 2019 in my gallery. There's just one more day of photos and I'll probably just do like I did with the practice post and do a huge photo dump. You've been warned. Then we'll get back to mushing.

Yi Christy LEUNG - Hong Kong

Yi Christy LEUNG - Hong Kong

Mako YAMASHITA - Japan

Mako YAMASHITA - Japan

Stanislava KONSTANTINOVA - Russia

Stanislava KONSTANTINOVA - Russia

Amber GLENN - USA

Amber GLENN - USA

Veronik MALLET - Canada

Veronik MALLET - Canada

Eunsoo LIM - South Korea

Eunsoo LIM - South Korea

Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA - Russia

Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA - Russia

Karen CHEN - USA

Karen CHEN - USA

Anna SHCHERBAKOVA - Russia

Anna SHCHERBAKOVA - Russia

Wakaba HIGUCHI - Japan

Wakaba HIGUCHI - Japan

Kaori SAKAMOTO - Japan

Kaori SAKAMOTO - Japan

Bradie TENNELL - USA

Bradie TENNELL - USA

Free Program Results

1 Anna SHCHERBAKOVA         RUS 160.16

2 Bradie TENNELL         USA         141.04

3 Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA RUS 138.69

4 Kaori SAKAMOTO         JPN         129.22

5 Eunsoo LIM         KOR 120.54

6 Wakaba HIGUCHI         JPN         109.56

7 Yi Christy LEUNG         HKG 109.43

8 Veronik MALLET         CAN 105.06

9 Amber GLENN         USA         104.92

10 Karen CHEN         USA           99.64

11 Mako YAMASHITA         JPN           96.19

12 Stanislava KONSTANTINOVA RUS 95.12

Official Results

1 Anna SHCHERBAKOVA         227.76

2 Bradie TENNELL         216.14

3 Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA         205.97

4 Kaori SAKAMOTO         202.47

5 Eunsoo LIM         184.50

6 Wakaba HIGUCHI         181.32

7 Amber GLENN         169.63

8 Karen CHEN         165.67

9 Yi Christy LEUNG         163.68

10 Veronik MALLET         161.75

11 Stanislava KONSTANTINOVA 143.39

12 Mako YAMASHITA         142.40