A month after the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Figure Skating World Championships were held in Montpellier, France. The women's individual event lacks the Russian matryoshka dolls that have monopolized in recent years, and the results are normal for the time being.
Winter Olympic bronze medalist and Japanese representative Hanaori Sakamoto has always played steadily in the short program, refreshing the best result of the individual short program, more than 5 points ahead of the opponent. However, the famous Russian coach Tarasova did not look at it at all, and criticized it as "figure skating twenty years ago". Beijing Winter Olympic gold, silver medal Sherbakova, Trusova did not have the opportunity to appear in this World Championships
The tournament was led by a women's individual short program, with Hanori Sakamoto playing a stable and high-quality performance, ranking first among the contestants in terms of difficulty and completion scores, and the result was a new short program individual record with 80.32 points, 0.48 points higher than the Winter Olympics score, and 5.32 points higher than the 8th Place Belgian representative loena Hendrickx of the Winter Olympics. Sakamoto also became the seventh contestant in history to exceed 80 points in a short program, after the previous six were all Russian athletes except for Japan's Kihei Ewha.
Sakamoto couldn't hide his excitement after the game, knowing that he couldn't help but be "happy to question" when he scored, laughing and calling 80, and he was fast enough to show the best level when he scored, and he was extremely satisfied. She said: Very surprised, very surprised, it is simply an unknown world, I thought it would take three and a half weeks to jump to have 80 bars, only Russian players, can not jump axels also have 80 points. She will free skate on the evening of the 25th to win the world championship.
After the absence of the Sherbakova at this World Championship, some media believe that this world championship has been reduced to a "secondary event" and the level is low.
Tarasova, a member of the Russian coaching team of the Beijing Winter Olympics, served as a guest commentator for the Russian media and maintained the same position. She has directed Turin Winter Olympics gold medal Shizuka Arakawa and Vancouver Winter Olympics silver medal Asada Masayoshi, bluntly saying that "our children can play, she can't lead".
She described Sakamoto's performance as "figure skating from twenty years ago": "How beautiful is the performance, there is no most difficult part." Our children's completion rates continue to evolve, and no matter which game is the first. The Japanese players are doing well, but they're certainly not at the highest level."